
Jessica Sacher
๐จ๐ฆ Microbio/biotech PhD
๐ Cofounder
@phagedirectory
๐ Helping launch
@phageaustralia
&
@lab_dao
๐งฌ Techbio/DeSci blog: http://jessbio.substack.com
Iโm a co-founder of Phage Directory and have a Ph.D in Microbiology and Biotechnology from the University of Alberta (I studied Campylobacter phage biology). For Phage Directory, I oversee community building, phage sourcing, communications, science, and our awesome team of volunteers.
As of Feb 2022, Iโve recently joined Jon Iredellโs group in Sydney, Australia as a postdoctoral research scientist for the Phage Australia project. Iโm diving back into the lab to help get Phage Australiaโs country-wide phage therapy system up and running here, working to streamline workflows for phage sourcing, biobanking and collection of phage/bacteria/patient matching and monitoring data, and integrating it all with Phage Directoryโs phage exchange, phage alerts and phage atlas systems. Iโm also delving into phage manufacturing and quality control.