How do TFs recruit the transcriptional machinery? This critical cellular function is incompletely understood. Led by postdoc Nick Morffy, we experimentally identify Arabidopsis ADs at scale and use this immense dataset to create an AD predictor, TADA. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited to share a new paper from the CRISPR team in the Jacobsen, Doudna, and Banfield labs on viral delivery of TnpB and wRNA for transgene free germline editing in plants. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My department has two open Asst. Prof searches: Plant Systems Biology or Biotechnology (aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02016) and Translational Plant Sciences (aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02015).

My department is seeking an Assistant Professor of Plant Systems Biology or Biotechnology. We'll start reviewing applications in about a month. Come join a fantastic group of colleagues! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02016

I've been reading a lot about "plant biosensors" or "plant sentinels" lately, which are crops that have been engineered to sense molecules in the environment (like pesticides or toxins) and then change color in response. I think they could be incredibly useful for farmers and

Thrilled to announce our work in Science! 🧪 We reveal GAME15, a bifunctional protein critical for steroidal glycoalkaloid biosynthesis in plants, linking metabolism & defense. Great collaborative work! asaph aharoni SAYANTAN PANDA Science Magazine 👉 doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Circuit not working? Time to check your syntax... #synbio MIT ChemE Dept MIT Dept of BE

🌱 Egg cell-specific degradation of CENH3 using engineered E3-ligases successfully induce haploids ⚠️ Preprint from Andreas Houben's lab Leibniz IPK 👉🏼 Gametophytic degradation of CENH3 - a synthetic biology approach for haploid induction in plants 📖doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…

Thrilled to share our new paper! (shorturl.at/8XjiY) We discovered that wild tomatoes in the Galápagos are re-evolving ancestral chemical defenses—literally flipping a molecular switch back in time. One enzyme, one atom, one evolutionary twist. asaph aharoni Nature Communications

A new paper describes a rational way to engineer a *SINGLE PROTEIN* in plants to protect them against a wide range of pathogens. The article features some synthetic biology experiments, a bit of computational modeling, and it's about plants. That makes it a winner in my book!

Our #research on #drought #recovery, now published with Springer Nature in Nature Communications: Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation. Read thread below 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s41467…