James Lloyd

James Lloyd

Research Fellow, ARC CoE Plants for Space, School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia

I am a geneticist in the School of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia and the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space. I am interested in how genes and turned on and off within an organism, initially to understand how the natural processes first evolved, but I now engineer new ways to turn genes on and off in plants in a field known as Synthetic Biology.

Articles by: James Lloyd

An illustration of a small spacecraft above an icy surface, with a large Jupiter visible in the background

Why NASA is sending the Europa Clipper to search for aliens near Jupiter

By James Lloyd published

In the coming weeks, NASA's Europa Clipper will take off on a long journey to Jupiter's moon Europa. The icy moon could potentially host alien life — and there's only one way to find out.