Amy Baldwin

Background

About Amy Baldwin

Amy is a molecular biologist and data scientist. She develops tools that facilitate others accessing specialist and innovative technologies. She specialises in generating and utilising large collections of mutants to discover the mechanisms behind biological processes, both in the 'wet-lab' and through informatics. Her projects have included: • designed, built and implemented whole genome bioinformatic analysis capability for animal nutrition • generated a large collection of mutant amoeba as a community resource. The social amoeba, Dictyostelium, is an amenable and economical model especially for studying process involved in human health and disease. • generated a large collection of Arabidopsis variants, which resulted in identification of a key component that makes plants resilient to harsh conditions such as drought; this knowledge is now being used to study how crop yields will not be compromised in an unreliable climate. • developed techniques for directed evolution, which is a method for generating large libraries of single amino acid substitutions for single proteins which can be screened in vivo. Amy has also organised hundreds of public engagement from a Genetic Roadshow for thousands of Welsh high school students to film screenings through sciSCREEN (a cross-disciplinary event which utilises local academic expertise to discuss themes and issues raised by contemporary cinema in an entertaining and informative way).