Biography
Will is a synthetic biologist with expertise in yeast and plant engineering. His research focuses on developing technologies to accelerate plant genetic engineering and functional studies.
Will earned his PhD at Imperial College London with Prof. Tom Ellis, where he pioneered new genome engineering approaches to study yeast signalling pathways. Building on this foundational work, he then expanded into biosensing and synthetic multicellularity.
Supported by an EMBO Fellowship, Will carried out postdoctoral research at Boston University with Prof. Mo Khalil and Prof. Mary Gehring (MIT), where he transitioned into plant synthetic biology, developing new methods and technologies for precision plant transgenesis and genome editing.
At the Earlham Institute, under the mentorship of Dr Conrad Nieduszynski, his work focuses on rewriting plant chromosomes to decode genome function, with the long-term goal of engineering more resilient and productive crops.