Mario Donald Bani, S.P., M.Biotech.

Research Interest

Recombinant protein expression and purification
Structural Biology of Protein (X-ray crystallography)
Herbicide’s discovery and development
Biopesticide development

Biography

Mario graduated from Nusa Cendana University, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, where he majored in Crop Protection. Right after that, he got a 6-month contract to teach at the Biology Department of FMIPA Widya Mandira Catholic University in Kupang. After that, he pursued a master’s degree at the Master of Biotechnology (Advanced) program at the University of Queensland, Australia. He was working with the development of genetically modified organisms by trying to incorporate toxin peptides from the Australian funnel-web spider with the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana. Currently, Mario is working on an herbicide discovery and development project at the University of Western Australia for his Ph.D.

Award

Year	Award	Source
	LPDP Scholarship	Ministry of Finance of Republic of Indonesia
2011-2013	Australia Development Scholarship	Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
2007-2010	Eka Tjipta Foundation Scholarship	Sinar Mas

Research Activity and Highlighted Project

Year	Title	Partners
2018-2022	New Herbicide Mode of Action Development from Structural Biology Perspective	School of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia
2012-2013	Fusion peptide production in Pichia pastoris for transgenic plant development	Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland