Dr Brendan Kidd

Dr Brendan Kidd is a Program Facilitator at CSIRO helping to deliver the Queensland Government funded Regional University Industry Collaboration (RUIC) program. He works with Queensland SMEs and universities to foster collaborative projects that deliver mutual benefits.

Prior to joining CSIRO Brendan co-founded the Australasian Synthetic Biology Challenge, a program that provided sponsorship for university students to conduct a project in the field of Synthetic Biology. Concurrently, Brendan was a CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform Fellow and Research fellow at UWA where he developed genetic circuits to control how plants grow and function. Prior to this, Brendan was a postdoc at CSIRO as well as the University of Queensland where he studied transcriptional co-regulators necessary for plant development and responses to biotic and abiotic stress. Brendan brings experience from his time working across research organisations (CSIRO, Australian Universities), startups and not-for-profit companies to assist SMEs in developing their own research projects at regional universities.