Jenny Mortimer

University of Adelaide
 
Professor Jenny Mortimer is researcher and lecturer at the University of Adelaide School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Affiliate Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab, USA, and Director of Plant Systems Biology at the Join BioEnergy Institute (JBEI).

Jenny has extensive expertise in plant biochemistry, physiology and glycobiology and is putting her knowledge to work in developing Space agriculture projects for the Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources, and researching promising Space / Closed Environment Agriculture crops such as duckweed. Her expertise in monocot transformation and synthetic biology will be used to optimise tools for duckweed and other target plants to enable their use for on-demand or large-scale biomolecule production will provide support for program 2.1. Jenny’s focus here will be on the production of novel biomaterials. 

Furthermore, the majority of her research career has been at the interface of basic and applied science: exploring and redesigning plant biology to help humanity overcome new challenges – which she will continue to do as the University of Adelaide Plants for Space node lead.

"I could not go to space without my headphones and a library of music and audiobooks. And a box of Yorkshire tea bags"