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Farley Kwok van der Giezen is a Research Associate at the ARC Centre of Plant Energy Biology and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Western Australia. His research focuses on RNA editing mechanisms in plant chloroplasts and mitochondria, utilizing genomics and transcriptomics techniques to study non-model organisms such as ferns and lycophytes. He investigates the evolution of RNA editing, with a particular interest in the unique phenomenon of uridine to cytidine conversion. Farley employs molecular biology techniques to engineer novel RNA binding proteins, aimed at understanding the mechanisms of RNA editing and creating engineered proteins to improve crop traits through targeted RNA modifications. He has experience teaching undergraduate and master's level courses over the past six years and has supervised multiple honors and master's students' research projects and dissertations. Farley is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and believes in working closely with students to help them identify their learning styles and knowledge gaps, adjusting their approach to the complexities inherent in molecular biology as they progress through their studies.
ARC Centre of Plant Energy Biology • Perth, Australia
Conducting research on RNA editing mechanisms in plants and supervising student projects.
University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Teaching undergraduate and master's courses in biochemistry and molecular biology.
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