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BREAKING: Democrat Elissa Slotkin wins election to U.S. Senate from Michigan. 🔗More: detne.ws/40zx086 | Photo by Katy Kildee, TDN.

The Slotkin lab is hiring for an exciting project that involves gene editing, transposable elements and plant transformation! Please RT! paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php…

My dad taught me that your word is your bond, so to have him beside me as I took the oath of office yesterday had special meaning …

NAASC is holding an annual membership drive to support our (micro) nonprofit & I’m excited to announce 2 new lifetime members! 💚 Member fees start at $10/year & support fundament plant biology & the next generation of plant biologists. Join today! arabidopsiscommunity.org/join-ac

U.S. early career scientists that do research in Arabidopsis can apply by March 31 for travel funds to attend ICAR 2025, taking place in Ghent, Belgium, this June. Details here. Please share! arabidopsiscommunity.org/icar-applyfund…

Can we please bring back science? Can we invest in foundational research to invent tomorrow’s technology? And develop new vaccines? And cure Alzheimer’s? And childhood cancer? And solve the climate crisis? And beat China? Let’s not relitigate settled science but pursue new

Sometimes at a scientific meeting you sit down for lunch and eat quietly by yourself. Other times you have a conversation that results in a Perspectives article! It was great to write about Genome Engineering with Larry Gilbertson and Holger Puchta rdcu.be/efW1G

New Perspective: "The future of genome editing in plants" rdcu.be/ef8aa Genome editing will mimic the natural evolutionary processes that shape genomes; will be used to reshape genomes in a manner that could have happened naturally, but more precisely and more rapidly.

So 🥳excited🎉 to publicly announce what we’ve been working on for over two years, 🔥Spearhead Bio🔥, which comes out of Danforth Center and my lab’s love of transposable elements!! danforthcenter.org/news/danforth-…

Introducing the newest startup to spin out of the Danforth Center: Spearhead Bio. Spearhead’s technology enhances the efficiency of genome engineering by harnessing the plant’s own natural DNA. 🌱 Learn more: loom.ly/UVnGrzc

See us in St. Louis Magazine! St. Louis Magazine stlmag.com/business/spear…

I’m happy to share that our collaborative commentary is out! In defense of funding foundational plant science academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

I’m about to lead my Science Committee Democrats colleagues on the House floor to stand up for science, fight Trump and Musk’s NSF cuts, and STOP THE CHAOS! Tune in!

Spearhead_Bio Offers Precise Plant Engineering Using CRISPR-Directed Jumping Genes TAHITI couples #CRISPR with transposable elements from plants to edit cash crops such as corn and soybean with reduced off-target effects Danforth Center Keith Slotkin hubs.li/Q03mLWqx0

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What is one country also investing heavily in agricultural research? It's China. That's why this Administration's $600M cut to ag research makes no sense. We cannot go backward on investing in the future of agriculture. It impacts our farmers and our national security.

Congrats Spearhead_Bio for the new grant!

Latest work from the lab led by Yu-Hung Hung in The Plant Journal! We engineered a RNA-binding protein to sort and protect a Cas9 transcript for long term expression! Can be applied to any engineered transcript as a UTR: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…

It seems like all these goodies would fit nicely in a backpack

Today, was a busy and productive one in the House Science Committee! We passed two bills that I wrote and introduced, the Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Standards Act and the Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act. Both bills will safeguard our national security and