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Conor McClune

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Postdoc @Stanford with @Sattely_lab + @fordycelab. @DamonRunyon Fellow. Protein engineer, biochemist and aspiring botanist. Formerly Voigt & Laub labs @MIT

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Today in nature we report a systematic strategy to activate & identify gene sets in plants. We identify 8 new genes from the yew tree's Taxol biosynthetic pathway, enabling us to engineer tobacco with 17- & 20-gene pathways to Taxol precursors baccatin III and dBz-deoxy-Taxol. a