Please RT - we are seeking a new postdoc! The Williams lab at UC Berkeley (williamsplantlab.com) has a post-doc position available to study the impact of epigenetics on organ regeneration in plants.

One of the best and most thoughtful plant CRISPR efforts to date. Rice cis-editing for NPQ and WUE achieves transgene phenotypes without the transgene! Congrats Dhruv Patel-Tupper and team. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congrats to MCB's David Savage Savage Lab on his promotion to Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology! 👏🥂 mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-event…

Climate change be damned! Out in Nature Communications, we interrogated over 54k plant terminator sequences to synthetically design robust terminators for crop engineering. tinyurl.com/d63n894r

Out today in Nature Biotechnology: we call on the global community to modernize plant gene editing regulations on behalf of 16 nations on the forefront of the CRISPR revolution. tinyurl.com/y46wvfe8 A majority of nations still regulate CRISPR crops as GMO, stifling science and

Meanwhile somewhere in the mirror universe they just decided it would be irresponsible to create regular life

Out just in time for my last days Caltech pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Every synthetic biologist, every biochemist, when they dream, will sometimes hear a voice calling A whisper on the wind, as impossible as infinity, as sweet as the ambrosia of the very Gods "Engineer RuBisCo" And this paper takes us one step closer nature.com/articles/s4158…

Sat down with Seed World United States Marc Zienkiewicz to talk about novel Cas proteins, gene editing + ML, and making CRISPR open source

Can DNA sequence models predict mutations affecting human traits? We introduce TraitGym, a curated benchmark of causal regulatory variants for 113 Mendelian & 83 complex traits, and evaluate functional genomics and DNA language models. Joint work w/ gokcen and Yun S. Song 🧵👇

A new IGI article delves into the story behind our method for statistically guaranteed genome mining and discovery of genes of unknown function. The piece offers insights into the journey and motivation driving our work! Read more here: innovativegenomics.org/news/rapid-ai-…

This January we launched the 3rd cohort of the African Plant Breeding Academy CRISPR Course! I spoke with the Innovative Genomics Institute about this one-of-a-kind training, and how CRISPR is unlocking new possibilities for African crops. Link: innovativegenomics.org/news/californi…

Plants use two different photoperiod measurements: absolute photoperiod for flowering and photosynthetic period for growth. Science Magazine doi.org/10.1126/scienc… 🧵1/6

Ce robot de microchirurgie possède une précision telle qu’il peut recoudre un grain de maïs... 💯🌽