Dr Yan-Kay Ho
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Dr Yan-Kay HoProject Manager - Open Bioeconomy Lab and Reagent Collaboration NetworkDepartment of Chemical Engineering and BiotechnologyBiography
Other open science initiatives that she has been involved with in the past includes co-founding the London SynBio Network for early careers researchers in the biotechnology field, volunteering with the Institute of Making at their public engagement open days, and contributing to several iGEM teams such as with the Friendzymes team in democratising biotechnology across the globe.
She keeps up to date on best practices in fostering open research cultures and building sustainable, socially impactful projects through training from the Open Life Science (OLS) community, the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE), and by embarking on an APM Project Management Qualification. This in turn helps her support her current communities as part of the iGEM Human Practices Committee, Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Steering Committee, as a Data Champion at the University of Cambridge, and as a member of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) Community Council.
Yan Kay is the Project Manager for the Open Bioeconomy Lab at the University of Cambridge (openbioeconomy.org) and Community Manager for the Reagent Collaboration Network (reclone.org), where she supports both communities to foster global collaborations to advance equitable access to biotechnology. With a background in biological sciences (MSci Natural Sciences: Genetics, Evolution, and Environment; PhD Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology; both from University College London), Yan Kay now focuses more on supporting open science research by building connections across interdisciplinary fields and communities to work towards building a more sustainable and resilient future.
Research InterestsYan Kay enjoys supporting research groups and globally-inclusive communities to share open-source tools and resources for equitable access to biotechnology, focusing primarily in low-resource contexts and countries. By fostering an affordable, open, and enabling environment to conduct research using synthetic biology and engineering biology approaches, we can help accelerate innovation and develop more inclusive, sustainable development strategies that best serve the interests of the environment and society that we live in.Other open science initiatives that she has been involved with in the past includes co-founding the London SynBio Network for early careers researchers in the biotechnology field, volunteering with the Institute of Making at their public engagement open days, and contributing to several iGEM teams such as with the Friendzymes team in democratising biotechnology across the globe.
She keeps up to date on best practices in fostering open research cultures and building sustainable, socially impactful projects through training from the Open Life Science (OLS) community, the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE), and by embarking on an APM Project Management Qualification. This in turn helps her support her current communities as part of the iGEM Human Practices Committee, Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Steering Committee, as a Data Champion at the University of Cambridge, and as a member of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) Community Council.