Mathew Lewsey

La Trobe University
 
Professor Mathew Lewsey is researcher and lecturer in Animal, Plant and Soil Sciences at La Trobe University (Melbourne), appointed visiting professor with Universidad Andrés Bello (Santiago, Chile) and Co-Deputy Director of the ARC Research Hub for Medicinal Agriculture.

Mathew’s expertise in organism-scale, single-cell resolution mapping of gene expression and modelling regulatory networks has generated recent technological advances in single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. This exquisite research will be used through the Lewsey lab for Plants for Space, to assist in modifying plant networks in a precise, targeted fashion to improve plant growth or biomolecule synthesis / sequestration in programs 1.1 and 2.1. 

As La Trobe University Node leader, Mathew will ensure coordinated interactions between La Trobe and the other Australian institutions, as well as support the Victorian Space Science Education Centre through outreach and engagement activities – enthusing the next generation of Space researchers and plant biologists. 

“I could not go to Space without my bicycle”