Matthew Baker

-performed as slam poet and MC at various venues in Australia/UK
-fence epee in the Australian National Team for last 5 years.
-interest in ethnomusicology particularly dancehall, balkan, and african music.
-work with temperature control of the bacterial flagellar motor. Nanometry using optical tweezers to make 10nm measurements of rotational speed and steps of the bacterial flagellar motor.
-scientist/educator with teaching experience in primary schools, high schools, universities and prisons.
-NESTA FameLab National Finalist 2009 - excellent proven science communicator.

The Bacterial Flagellar Motor is an incredible motor, spinning faster than a formula one engine at only 100nm in size. It is capable of moving E. Coli many diameters per second and responding to its surroundings to bias a random walk towards nutrients. Life arises out of motion, and this remarkable bionanomachine is responsible for one of the oldest and continuing sources of motility on the planet.

In our quest for further miniaturisation and nanotech machinery we must look at the bionanotechnology already within us that is the pinnacle of 5 billion years of evolution.