Scott Berry

Scott Berry

Senior Lecturer
  • 2016 Ph.D. Plant Science and Microbiology. John Innes Centre, Norwich, U.K.
  • 2010 B.Sc. (Hons.) Theoretical Physics, The University of Western Australia.
  • 2007 B.Sc. Theoretical Physics and Biochemistry, The University of Adelaide.
Medicine & Health
School of Biomedical Sciences

I lead a research group investigating quantitative control of gene expression at the single-cell level – ranging from epigenetic memory and cellular decision-making to global RNA metabolism in the context of cellular physiology.

Proper control of gene expression underpins the normal development of organisms, and is dysregulated in diseases such as cancer. We seek to better understand which components of a cell are involved in this control, and how they work together. Our fundamental discov...

Phone
+61-2-9385 0790
E-mail
scott.berry@unsw.edu.au
Location
Single Molecule Science - EMBL Australia Lowy Cancer Research Centre - Level 3

  • UNSW Cellular Genomic Futures Institute: Incubator Grant 2024
  • Australian Research Council (ARC): Discovery Program Grant 2024-2026
  • Australian Research Council (ARC): Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2023-2025
  • UNSW Research Infrastructure Scheme: Spinning-disk microscope 2022
  • Human Frontiers Science Programme (HFSP): Long-term Fellowship 2017-2021
  • European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO): Long-term Fellowship 2017-2019

 

  • 2024 BBA Rising Star Prize
  • 2023 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
  • 2019 Early-career researcher award (Lorne genome conference, Australia)
  • 2017-2021 HFSP Long Term Fellowship (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
  • 2017-2019 EMBO Long Term Fellowship (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
  • 2016 John Innes Foundation prize for excellence in scientific research – annual Ph.D. thesis prize (Norwich, U.K.)
  • 2014 EMBO Short Term Fellowship (FMI, Basel, Switzerland)
  • 2011-2015 John Innes Foundation Rotation PhD Scholarship
  • 2010 Maslen Physics Prize (University of Western Australia)
  • 2010 John and Patricia Farrant Scholarship
  • 2007 Silver Bragg Medal (Australian Institute of Physics)
  • 2007 R.K. Morton Scholarship (University of Adelaide – Biochemistry)
  • 2007 Angus Hurst Prize (University of Adelaide – Physics)

 

  • 2022-2023: Scientific Program Committee - Biomolecular Horizons. 26th Congress of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB).
  • 2022: Conference Organisation Committee - Australian Epigenetics (AusEpi22)

My Research Supervision

Dr Alexander Gillis (Postdoctoral fellow)