Dr. Tessa Moses is the Manager of the Edinomics Metabolomics Core Facility at the University of Edinburgh. She obtained her PhD in Biotechnology from the University of Ghent, Belgium, in 2012, where she worked on the metabolic engineering of plants and yeast for the production of triterpenoid saponin building blocks. Following her PhD, she conducted postdoctoral research at the John Innes Centre, focusing on the development of a triterpenoid biosensor in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

In 2015, Dr. Moses received a Special Research Fund (BOF) from the University of Ghent to continue her research on the engineering of yeast for the sustainable production of high-value triterpenoids. She joined the University of Edinburgh in 2017 as a postdoctoral research associate, developing a yeast platform for saponin production.

Since 2019, Dr. Moses has been leading the Edinomics Metabolomics Core Facility, where she manages a mass spectrometry-based research facility dedicated to metabolite and proteome analysis. Her expertise lies in the analysis of specialized small molecule natural products, and she has extensively used metabolomics in her synthetic biology projects.

Dr Moses and Dr Karl Burgess will be presenting a Masterclass at the IDM on 7 - 8 October. Further information can be found by clicking on  IDM Masterclass, 7 - 8 October 2024.pdf (uct.ac.za)