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John Harold Nataño
PhD Student
Environmental Engineering
Email: JOHNHARO001@e.ntu.edu.sg
John Harold Nataño is a PhD student in SCELSE’s Environmental Engineering Cluster, supervised by Asst Prof Laura Nolan. His research focuses on how biofilms form and mature during chicken meat spoilage, using molecular tools to map microbial interactions at each stage. He aims to explore the interactions among members of the native spoilage community and identify key players in the spoilage process using various ‘omics’ techniques, such as metagenomics and transcriptomics.
Before joining SCELSE, Harold earned his Chemical Engineering degree from the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he developed high-throughput methods to quantify M13 phage for biopanning applications and explored peptide-based magnetic separation of phages as a PEG-free alternative. He also worked briefly as a university instructor, teaching Classical Thermodynamics and Particle Technology.
He now applies his expertise to chart the spoilage timeline of chicken using molecular and imaging techniques; and hopes to design strategies that prolong food shelf life and reduce food waste.
