Cairn Nicolai

Cairn Nicolai is a Research Associate specializing in metabolic engineering at Melt&Marble since May 2022. Prior experience includes an internship at Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., where involvement in strain engineering projects focused on yeast biosensor development, and an internship at Universidad de Sevilla, which involved overexpressing plant thioesterase genes in cyanobacteria to boost fatty acid production. Cairn's academic background features a Master's degree in Molecular Life Science from Wageningen University & Research, a first year Master's in Plant Sciences from Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, and a Bachelor's degree in Biology-biochemistry from Le Mans Université. Additional research experience includes developing a CRISPRi-Cas9 tool during a Master's thesis at Wageningen University & Research and overexpressing protein kinases to investigate programmed cell death during an internship at Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales.