Kwok Jian (KJ) Goh is a microbiologist at the MACSYS Monash University node. Within MACSYS, KJ contributes to the biological direction of several projects. Leveraging his background in molecular biology and microbiology, he specializes in generating bacterial mutants and validating mathematical models through wet-lab experimentation. Additionally, he interrogates the role of post-transcriptional regulation in bacterial gene expression, aiming to provide data that will further improve the whole-cell model.

KJ earned his PhD in 2020 from Nanyang Technological University, researching ribosome-binding proteins under Prof. Yong-Gui Gao. He then spent three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Yunn-Hwen Gan at NUS (Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine), focusing on regulatory RNAs in hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae. In 2023, KJ joined Prof. Trevor Lithgow’s team at Monash University to investigate quiescent porins and outer membrane remodeling.