My lab is hiring a full-time research technician to work in plant & microbial synthetic biology at the University of Georgia! Please share widely, further info here: dundaslab.com/openings

Some fun EET genetic circuit design leftover from my grad school work, really awesome collabs across Keitz Lab & TexasChE

If you are at #Botany2024 check out the #jobs board! Also, if you want to talk about projects and the lab manager opportunity in my lab message me! #Botany #botanical #WilliamsLab #NewPI #Job #jobopportunity

Zinc deficiency is the most abundant microdeficiency of plants globally. It affects up to 50% of all arable lands. We show that Brassicaceae plants (broccoli, radish) actively secrete peptides to increase root mass under zinc starvation. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This a very well-researched, well-written, timely, and important preprint of a review article from the group of Christopher Voigt . It will undoubtedly help steer academic researchers, regulatory agencies, and funding agencies alike #synbio

Congrats José Dinneny !! Very well deserved!

Interested in how we can leverage all this fancy new omics data to improve plants for productivity under climate change? julia serres and I share our ideas in this new review: nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am super excited that one of the most interesting finding in my lab was published in Nature Microbiology !! Have you heard about the fungus that helps carnivorous plants digest insects? 🐜🍃

If you want to work in biotech, but don't know what to work on: You should work on plants. Why? A few reasons: Plants account for 80% of all biomass on Earth, there's a low ratio of researchers relative to possible impacts & more. In this thread, I'll try to convince you. 🧵

The plant microbiome is controlled by host genes, so-called M genes. Targeted breeding of crops with high M gene activity could become a transformative technique in agriculture. nature.com/articles/s4146… Biological Sciences University of Southampton Nature Communications Nature Plants

Single component CRISPR-mediated base-editors for Agrobacterium and their use to develop an improved suite of strains biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

It’s been great working with Jacqueline Peña on Footprints of human migration in the population structure of wild wine yeast! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… .. A quick summary 🧵:

Finally out! A long journey w/ many setbacks over a decade. Frustrating growth variation of hiSA transgenics led to a COOL find of SA repression of COR genes. Ectopic expression of CORs can override SA inhibition of growth w/o affecting disease resistance. doi.org/10.1093/plcell…

Maize genetic diversity identifies moisture-dependent root-branch signaling pathways biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

Check out this article highlighting our newly funded U.S. National Science Foundation BioFoundry focused on the science of sugars: BioFoundry: Glycoscience Resources, Education, And Training (BioFoundry: GREAT) #glycotime research.uga.edu/news/uga-recei…

🌿 Renowned plant genetics researcher Scott Jackson has returned to CAES as the inaugural Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Synthetic Biology. Read more here: bit.ly/3XBrbFp