Jenny Molloy

I'm a molecular biologist by training and completed my doctorate at the University of Oxford researching genetic control of dengue mosquitoes.

Now my interests are in open source innovation and cultures of sharing in science. I coordinate both OpenPlant (http://openplant.org) and the Synthetic Biology Strategic Research Initiative (http://www.synbio.cam.ac.uk) at the University of Cambridge; which are seeking to develop open foundational tools and technologies for synthetic biology and to promote interdisciplinary working at the interface of biology and engineering.

I'm also a founding Director of the Cambridge-based non-profit organisations ContentMine (http://contentmine.org, producing open source software for text mining scientific papers) and Biomakespace (http://biomake.space, a community laboratory for engineering with biology) and I co-organise the international Gathering for Open Science Hardware (http://openhardware.science).