Dr Nick Coleman

Dr. Nick Coleman did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Sydney (USyd), and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at USyd and for the US Air Force. He was an academic at USyd from 2006-2023, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, then Associate Professor. He is currently a Research Fellow in the Australian Genome Foundry at Macquarie University. Nick's research aims to understand the activities of microbes in their natural habitats and to use synthetic biology methods to enable them to perform useful tasks for humans. A common thread is to understand how microbes adapt and evolve; this underpins diverse projects such as biodegradation of pollutants, tracking antibiotic resistance genes and plasmids, and evolving enzymes in-vitro for industrial and environmental applications.