Alexandra is a research assistant with the Banana Biotechnology Program’s Fruit Quality Team within the Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy. She has a background in Sorghum bicolor, Fragaria vesca, Arabidopsis thaliana and various microbes. Her work has covered grain quality, plant-microbe interactions, RNA silencing pathways and microbiome identification and visualisation. During her career Alexandra has worked at the University of Queensland, the University of Zürich and Queensland University of Technology. As well as a first-class honours in science, she also has an undergraduate certificate in electrical engineering.