Prof Monika Doblin is a plant bio(tech)logist with over 20 years of research experience in investigating the structure, function and regulation of cell surfaces and their constituent molecules (polysaccharides, glycoproteins and cognate enzymes). She uses multidisciplinary approaches to answer questions about how cell surface components are made, assembled & remodelled in response to their environment, and utilises this knowledge to tailor them for end-use applications. Her research spans fundamental science to applied industry projects, the latter focused on making renewable resources more productive for human use. Current projects include those aimed at understanding how soluble dietary fibre is made in cereals and enhancing the productivity of medicinal and horticultural plant species from a specialised metabolite level to valorising biomass byproducts. She is the Director of the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Protected Cropping (PC Hub) and Co-Lead of the Protected Cropping research domain at the La Trobe Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and Food (LISAF).