Clare Robinson engineers bacteria that sense and report on conditions inside the mammalian gut, and now works on long-read RNA sequencing at Singapore's Genome Institute.
Worth knowing
Clare has built a platform for finding bacterial biosensors that switch on inside a living host, and she works on the computational side of long-read RNA data, including tools for detecting RNA modifications. She also connects early-career RNA researchers in Singapore through a seminar series she runs. Worth writing to if you work in synthetic biology, microbiome engineering or long-read sequencing.
Story
Clare trained in the Riglar Lab in the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College London, finishing her PhD in 2024 on whole-cell bacterial biosensors, including work showing how sialic acid availability varies across the inflamed gut. She moved to Singapore for a postdoc that same year, and in November 2025 joined Jonathan Göke's Computational Transcriptomics Lab at the Genome Institute of Singapore. In 2025 she represented the lab in Toronto at the second workshop of the Human RNome Project Consortium.
Highlights
- First author, discovery platform for host-induced bacterial biosensors, Mol Syst Biol (20…
- Contributor, xPore, GoekeLab long-read RNA modification detection tool
- Organiser and contact, RNA Salon Singapore seminar series
- MSci, Natural Sciences
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