Dr. Mateo Sanchez Lopez

Biography

Mateo Sanchez received his PhD in Organic Chemistry in 2014 from the University of Santiago de Compostela, focusing on the design and synthesis of fluorescent DNA binders. In 2015, he joined Professor Alice Ting's research group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and later worked at Stanford University, where he was awarded an EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellowship. In 2020, Sanchez joined the Synthetic Biology Centre at Imperial College London to further his expertise in synthetic biology under the supervision of Professor Tom Ellis. As a Marie Curie Fellow, he worked on a project involving the design of genetic circuits to study DNA repair mechanisms. He is currently a Wellcome Trust Fellow, and his research group focuses on frontier chemistry and biology, aiming to apply chemistry principles to unlock cell biology understanding and create new chemistry, particularly through the development of molecular tools that leverage optogenetics and protein engineering for applications in cell biology and neuroscience. He is looking for postdoctoral researchers with backgrounds in organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry, chemical biology, molecular biology, protein engineering, directed evolution, yeast genetics, and phage display.

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