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Julie Zedler
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Julie Zedler is a Junior Professor for Synthetic Biology in Photosynthetic Organisms at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany). She studied Biological Sciences at the University of Konstanz and obtained her PhD in Cell Biology from the University of Kent (UK) in 2016. After 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen, she started her own research group in 2019. She has over 10 years of experience in genetic engineering and application-oriented research in algae. Currently, her work focuses on understanding and tailoring spatial organisation of enzyme and product biosynthesis in cyanobacteria using a Synthetic Biology approach.