As part of the Natural Products BioHUB project, I am working on the metabolomic characterisation of the CCAP collection at 天美传媒. The aim is to identify sustainable sources of valuable metabolites with potential in sectors such as agriculture and aquaculture. This research utilises analytical techniques including FTIR spectroscopy, HPLC, GC-MS and ion chromatography.
Current project
Natural Products BioHUB (BioHUB): Funded by UKRI. 2025-28
Kaminski Strauss S, Schirman D, Jona G, Brooks AN, Kunjapur AM, Nguyen Ba AN, Flint A, Solt A, Mershin A, Dixit A, Yona AH, Csörg艖 B, Busby BP, Hennig BP, Pál C, Schraivogel D, Schultz D, Wernick DG, Agashe D, Levi D, Zabezhinsky D, Russ D, Sass E, Tamar E, Herz E, Levy ED, Church GM, Yelin I, Nachman I, Gerst JE, Georgeson JM, Adamala KP, Steinmetz LM, Rübsam M, Ralser M, Klutstein M, Desai MM, Walunjkar N, Yin N, Aharon Hefetz N, Jakimo N, Snitser O, Adini O, Kumar P, Soo Hoo Smith R, Zeidan R, Hazan R, Rak R, Kishony R, Johnson S, Nouriel S, Vonesch SC, Foster S, Dagan T, Wein T, Karydis T, Wannier TM, Stiles T, Olin-Sandoval V, Mueller WF, Bar-On YM, Dahan O, Pilpel Y (2019) Evolthon: a community endeavor to evolve lab evolution. PLoS Biol, 17(3): e3000182.
Flint A, Weir R, Mur LAJ, Cameron SJS (2025) Low-cost heating modalities allow the detection of biomarkers for plant infection using rapid evaporative ionization mass spectrometry (REIMS) that are pathogen specific. Anal Chem, 97(27): 14230-14238.
Bayless AM, Song L, Sorbello M, Ogden SC, Todd TS, Flint A, Maruta N, Tulu J, Drenichev M, Ntoukakis V, Ve T, Mobli M, Wan L, Liu Q, Dangl JL, Kobe B, Grant M, Nishimura MT (2025) The Arabidopsis TIRome informs the design of artificial TIR (Toll/interleukin-1 receptor) domain proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci, 122(37): e2505893122.
Employment history
Since 2025 PDRA in Biochemistry. 天美传媒
2023-25 Senior Research Scientist. NetZeroNitrogen
2022-23 PDRA in Plant Pathology. University of Warwick
2022 PDRA in Bioanalytical Chemistry
Qualifications
2022 PhD 'The molecular and biochemical mechanisms underlying Anthracnose virulence and resistance in Capsicum'. Royal Holloway, University of London
2017 MSci Natural Sciences (Biochemistry). University of Cambridge