Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Kellett
Host: Dublin City University, Ireland
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Research: Development of on DNA oxidation catalysts for the efficient oxidation of 5-methyl- and 5- hydroxymethyl-dC to 5-formyldC for sequencing
Metal complexes will be explored as a means of oxidising epigentic cytosine modifications for single base resolution sequencing.
Publications in NATURE-ETN:
- Searle, B., Müller, M., Carell, T., and Kellett, A. Third Generation Sequencing of Epigenetic DNA. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202215704
Scientific background:
In 2020, Beth graduated with a Masters degree in chemistry from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, upon completing a final year project under the supervision of Dr Tanja van Mourik, focussing on the application of computational chemistry to the study of unnatural base pairs in DNA.
Personal background:
Beth grew up in the South East of England. Aside from chemistry, she enjoys listening to podcasts, especially philosophy. She is excited to undertake a PhD within an interdisciplinary and diverse team.