Brett obtained his PhD in biochemistry at James Cook University, Australia, in 1997. His PhD research, and subsequent research in the Philippines and Japan, involved the study of various aspects of the evolution and biology of marine symbioses with the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium. After returning to Australia in 2000, he took up a position at the Research School of Biological Sciences at ANU where he searched for signaling partners for the disease resistance gene Cf9 from tomato.    Following an interval at CAMBIA during which he worked on the Transbacter project and contributed to the Arabidopsis and rice genome landscapes and a technology landscape on Gateway vectors, Brett returned to the same ANU project. 

Wim was first author of the Nature paper on Transbacter, an Agrobacterium-independent work-around for plant transformation, together with Dr Brian Weir and Dr. Heidi Mitchell, now at OGTR;  other authors on the paper included Carolina de la Roa-Rodrigues and Leon Smith, mentioned above. 

Wim is now with the European Commission at its Joint Research Centre (JRC) where he works in the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM)  He joined CAMBIA from the Fruitteeltcentrum, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he worked on self-incompatibility loci and self-incompatibility related RNAses.

Josh is an Adelaide boy with a BSc in Computer Science and an Honours degree in Philosophy, perfectly reflecting his passion for truth, logic, beauty and a damn good argument. He has worked in the IT industry for more than a decade, in both the commercial sector and academia. He joined CAMBIA in 2006 as a Java Developer. When not debugging code, Josh loves buzzing around the National Capital on his venerable Vespa. Josh is now working for EDS as a software developer. He is continuing to contribute to the Patent Lens on a voluntary basis. 

Marie was CAMBIA's Deputy Chief Executive Officer 2005-2007.  She led CAMBIA's Patent Lens development team, including the addition of biological sequence search tools, status and family information, and expansion from a life sciences database to all patent categories.  She also coordinated the launch of the BiOS License and BiOS-compatible agreements covering materials transfer and data access, and the BiOS Initiative.  Marie has a PhD from Cornell University where she worked on the molecular genetic and biochemical mechanisms underlying a pollen production deficiency.  Her MBA was earned in the Moore Business School of USC.  She has a BA in Modern Languages and Literatures, is registered with the USPTO bar as a patent agent, has co-owned businesses in two countries and has experience with intellectual property business rules in an array of different countries.  She is now the CEO of A Rocha International.

Dr. dos Remedios is originally from Sydney, Australia, where he completed a B.Sc (Hons) in biochemistry & genetics and a Ph.D. in molecular immunology. Rather than predictably commencing a post-doc in his academic field, he instead commenced working for a local software company, specialising in expert systems for the airline industry. He joined the Informatics Team in early 2001. Some of his roles include programming web applications in Perl and Java, and managing the continual influx of patent data that requires processing for the searchable patent database. Dr. dos Remedios now works for the CSIRO Entomology as a programmer. 

Kerry obtained a B.A. in Biochemistry from Ithaca College, followed by a Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from the University of Michigan, where her research focus was in the area of mechanistic enzymology. Following graduate school, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, where she studied Type III-secreted exotoxins in gram-negative bacteria. Kerry is also a USPTO-registered Patent Agent, and prior to joining CAMBIA, she worked for several years at a Seattle-based law firm. Her work involved the preparation, prosecution, and analysis of patents and patent applications relating to biotechnology and medical devices. As a patent analyst at CAMBIA, Kerry focuses on patent landscapes, patent tutorials, and other IP-related projects.

Nik has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the Australian National University and great interest in graphic arts. After completing her degree in 2001 she returned to Malaysia, her home country, and is now back in Australia. Prior to joining CAMBIA in 2006, she has been working as a web and multimedia developer at The Canberra Hospital, with experience as Team Lead of Creative Works - working on a variety of intranet and internet development projects for PETRONAS, the national oil & gas company of Malaysia.

While at CAMBIA carrying out research on plant telomerase Kasia completed her Ph.D.from the the University of Warsaw, Poland, revealing the complex splicing pattern of rice telomerase reverse transcriptase, and developed a microarray based high throughput assay to quantitate telomerase activity. 

Kasia went on to validate CAMBIA's Diversity Arrays Technology for sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum), a demanding molecular analysis project due to the complex aneupolyploid genomefrom which a component was pulled out by subtraction. Several hundred polymorphic loci were identified for the most effective complexity reduction method, which was successfully used for sugarcane diversity analysis of cultivated materials and ancestral lines as well as for generating mapping data in the PJ2 cross (Q165 x IJ76-514A). Kasia is continuing with the sugarcane project in the spinoff company DArT Pty. Ltd. with Andrzej Kilian. 

Kasia has a Master's Degree in biology from University of Silesia, Poland, specialising in plant genetics and estimating impact of industrial pollutants upon genes and genotype frequencies in barley populations.  She also studied Applied Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Greenwich, Great Britain and molecular biology at Washington State University, USA, where she first became involved in the plant telomere and telomerase research continued at CAMBIA.

Amanda has completed a BSc in Computer Science and a Master of Legal Studies at the University of NSW; as well as a Master of Industrial Property at the University of Technology, Sydney. She hopes working at CAMBIA will give her the opportunity to use her IP and IT knowledge for good. Prior to CAMBIA, Amanda worked in a variety of roles including programming electronic forms, graphic design, web design and web publishing. Aside from study and work, Amanda's favourite things are her cat, her car, lifting heavy weights, all sorts of music, great movies and bad tv.

Paul joined CAMBIA after working on viruses and pigmentation genes at the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry in Canberra, and also worked at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Nigeria.  He is now at the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator, part of the Therapeutic Goods Administration within the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, along with two other former CAMBIAns, Dr Brian Weir and Dr Heidi Mitchell, both co-authors of the Nature paper on Transbacter.  Paul is still a Member of CAMBIA.

Andrzej joined CAMBIA in 1996 and led the Genomics program. In 1997 Andrzej invented Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT), and spent several years developing this technology within CAMBIA, until the establishment of the spinoff company DArT Pty. Ltd.  in 2001, with Andrzej as the Director, to commercialise it by providing a for-profit Diversity Arrays service and training under a commercial license from CAMBIA.  Other CAMBIA alumni now with this company include Dr. Eric Huttner, Dr. Kasia Heller-Uszynska, Dr. Peter Wenzl, Grzegorz Uszynski, and Gosia Aschenbrenner-Kilian.

Andrzej completed his PhD on population genetics of Arabidopsis thaliana at the Silesian University, Poland, and spent a year (1988) as a Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the FAO/IAEA at the Plant Breeding Institute (PBI) in Cambridge, England with Dr. Mike Gale on comparative RFLP mapping of barley and wheat, contributing to the first indication of extensive RFLP map colinearity among cereals (synteny). While at PBI, he also collaborated with Dr. Richard Jefferson.  After two years (1989-1990) as an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Silesian University, Andrzej spent several years as a visiting professor at Washington State University (Andy Kleinhof's lab) in the North American Barley Genome Mapping Program.

Andrzej is still a Member of CAMBIA and continues as adjunct university faculty supervising the Ph.D. work of some students that were funded through CAMBIA:  Sujin Patarapuwadol, Shiying Yang, Damien Jaccoud and Thach Tranh.

Jorge was a Principal Scientist, Operations Manager, and trained as an IP analyst during five years at CAMBIA.  He is a co-inventor of the GUSPlus gene patents, and authored reports and review articles on a variety of topics. While at CAMBIA he also completed Master of Industrial Property Law studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.  Jorge went on to become the Project Manager for the Golden Rice project of Harvest Plus. 

Jorge was born and grew up in Peru, and did his studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry leading to a Ph.D. at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.  He did postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne-Germany and was an Assistant Professor in the Botany Department at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany before joining the staff of the Biotechnology Research Unit in the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CIAT, in Cali, Colombia.  He is now based at the University of Freiburg in Germany.

Shoko is originally from Japan, where she completed a Bachelor of veterinary science degree at Hokkaido University. She came to Australia in 1998, and since completed a Grad. Dip., M. Phil. and PhD in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics at the Australian National University, specialising in microbial population genetics. 

Shoko worked with Dr Marie Connett Porceddu on the BioIndicators technology landscape after updating portions of the Agrobacterium technology landscape.  She has now taken up a postdoc at CSIRO. 

Greg is the original architect of the CAMBIA IP patent database system, and the Dekko search engine is his creation. He learned about algorithms at his father's knee and has been doing them with computers for over 30 years. He can also be found in the garden, because "I think that I shall never see, an algorithm lovely as a tree".

Carolina joined the CAMBIA IP Team as an IP Analyst in 1999 and contributed to it with the technological landscape analysis of several key biotechnologies, including Agrobacterium transformation, antibiotic resistance selection genes, and promoters, and some of the tutorials found in the Patent Lens.

Carolina is now a PhD scholar in Law at the Centre for the Governance of Knowledge and Development at the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, working under the supervision of Prof. Peter Drahos. Her interests lie mainly in the area of IP and access regulations and policies related to plant resources as well as alternative ways to fuel the exchange and use of crop resources that are the core of food security and plant-based industries.

Carolina has a BSc. in Microbiology and Plant Biology as well as an MSc in Plant Biology. She worked for several years in the area of plant genetic diversity of tropical crops (cassava, a tuber crop and Brachiaria, a forage grass) at the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), a CGIAR centre located in Cali, Colombia. She earned a Masters in International Law in 2002 at the Australian National University.

Jade co-authored the technology landscape analyses of phosphinothricin resistance and "junk DNA" with Carol Nottenburg, who continues working with CAMBIA.  Since 2004 Jade has been the Science and Research Adviser for the Hon. Brendan Nelson, Australian Government Minister for Science, Education and Training. 

Jade studied Biological Sciences at the University of Western Sydney (UWS) before going on to complete her PhD in Biology at UWS and the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology at Monkswood, United Kingdom.  She also completed a law degree and was the Science and Technology Officer for the British High Commission, providing her with broad exposure to international science and innovation policies.

Leon Smith graduated from Macquarie University (NSW, Australia) in 1994 with first class honours in the Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology degree programme. He then worked at Murdoch University (WA, Aust.) as a research assistant in two different groups, one working on resistance of Solanaceous plants to root knot nematode (Meloidogyne spp.) infection, the other group studying Phytophthora cinnamomi infection of Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata). This pathogen causes a dieback disease damaging large tracts of native forest in the southwest of Western Australia.

Leon worked with CAMBIA researchers during his undergraduate degree and returned in 1997 with an Australian Postgraduate Award to study for a PhD as an externally located student at the Australian National University.  Leon's Ph.D. project was to study genes that, like the GusA gene, could be useful in a variety of industrial processes. More recently he assisted with the development of a novel non-destructive reporter gene intended mainly for use in the study of plant transgene expression, and is a co-author on the Nature paper on alternative transformation methods, with Wim Broothaerts, Brian Weir, Heidi Mitchell.  Like some other co-authors, Sarah Kaines and Carolina Roa-Rodriguez, he is now at ANU.

Matt is the quietest member of the IT team and is kept busy behind the scenes working on the patent data. When not falling off his motorcycle, he enjoys getting reacquainted with Australia after several years abroad in Geneva, Switzerland.

Peter's publication record with CAMBIA describes the cloning of a number of glucuronidase genes from bacteria and even the discovery that there are active glucuronidase genes in some fungi, which are eucaryotes.  He is a co-inventor of the fungal glucuronidase gene that works extremely well in plants, PenGUS.  His primary reasearch work at CAMBIA was attempting to develop a method for positive selection, using a glucuronidase gene from a thermophilic bacterium.  He also worked on the development of a method for preparing a substrate for use in positive selection (cellobiouronic acid), and contributed greatly to the development of Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT).  He is now the Principal Scientist at the spinoff company DArT Pty. Ltd.  He's pictured here in the office at CAMBIA that housed DArT Pty. Ltd. for the first years of its existence, with stacks and stacks of CAMBIA lab notebooks, computer printouts and disks containing his research output.

Peter earned his Ph.D. at Vienna University (Austria) through a research project at the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia under a research grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He discovered physiologically unique, effective aluminum resistance mechanisms in the tropical forage grass Brachiaria decumbens (signalgrass) and developed a method to screen brachiariagrasses for edaphic adaptation, which has been implemented in CIAT's breeding program.  While at CAMBIA he continued contributing to ongoing research on aluminium resistance at CIAT.  He speaks fluent Spanish and is married to Carolina de la Roa-Rodrigues, mentioned above. 

Kate was co-founder of CAMBIA in 1992, and authored many papers in molecular microbial ecology, continuing work she had begun in a consultant role at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), establishing a laboratory and research program in molecular microbial ecology at the agency’s research laboratories outside Vienna and carrying out research for the IAEA in Asia.  Following her work at CAMBIA she joined the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in 1996 as research team leader for tropical aquaculture, and is currently the Science Coordinator of CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans Flagship.

Kate has a BA (Hons, First Class) from Cambridge University, United Kingdom, and was awarded a PhD from Harvard University.  While completing her PhD, she spent 18 months working at an international agricultural research centre in India where she applied molecular tools to studying bacteria of local agricultural importance.  She undertook similar research In her subsequent postdoctoral work at the University of London’s Agricultural College.

Wei is originally from China, where he obtained his B.Sc degree in biochemistry from Wuhan University. He worked at China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI) as a research scientist before joining CAMBIA in 1996 and obtained a PhD in plant molecular biology from the Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University. Wei's PhD work on apomixis is shown in the BioForge apomixis project and is available to use under a BiOS license.  He then worked as a Research Scientist at CAMBIA on Arabidopsis transgenomics.  Wei has now shifted focus from scientific research to intellectual property and is working with the IP group in biotechnology-related patent analysis and assisting in  Chinese-related IP issues.