Brendan O’Leary (He,his)

My scientific career really began with my favourite biochemistry course in undergrad at Queen’s University in Canada – comparing metabolism between different organisms.  I did my PhD with that same course professor who inspired me, William Plaxton, studying the regulation of plant metabolism. Afterwards, I post-doc’d at The University of Oxford from 2011 until 2014, in the labs of Gail Preston and Lee Sweetlove, where I studied cyanide metabolism and metabolic competition that occurs in leaf tissues infected by Pseudomonas bacteria. In 2015, I began an independent research fellowship in the Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at the University of Western Australia I Perth, studying the large variation in respiration rates observed in plants.  In 2021, I took up a research position as a metabolic biochemist with the Canadian government at Agriculture and Agrifood Canada in Saskatoon.

Twitter:  @Brendan_oleary2