Fungi power #InFocus 🍄‍: bit.ly/FungiPower Stanford University researchers mykophile and Jennbrophy.bsky.social are working to harness fungi-plant relationships and "reprogram" genes to supercharge benefits like carbon storage and toxin breakdown. Stanford Bioengineering Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

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…

Dr. Renate Weizbauer is one of our invited speakers for the Third Plant Cell Atlas Symposium! 🌿 Register now for this free, virtual event next week to hear Renate Weizbauer's talk, "CarboProbes - Illuminating cell wall carbohydrates in living plants." bit.ly/PCASymp3Reg

We just published a simple approach for precise control of wheat and triticale plant height without affecting seedling size. Hope you find it useful biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🎉 Excited to present my postdoc work with Kenneth D. Birnbaum, showing how comparative cell-type expression and co-expression patterns help infer gene functions at the 3rd Plant Cell Atlas Symposium on Aug 13 - 14, 2024. 🎉 #3rdPCASymposium Register: bit.ly/PCASymp3Reg

#PLOSBiology: bHLH transcription factors cooperate with chromatin remodelers to regulate cell fate decisions ... Congratulations to Drs. Liu and Mair! dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Ok, this is a big one! Proud to present our latest story on hydropatterning-a process that allows plants to sense moisture gradients in soil and activate branching. Johannes Scharwies defines the genetic basis for this response in maize and Arabidopsis! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very much looking forward to meeting students and colleagues tomorrow. If you are around UCLA Chem & Biochem stop by YH 4222 for my talk. Will be sharing the science we do and how my personal journey took us there.

And - it - is - finally - out ! A great story from Yan Ma - in case you haven’t seen it yet. Again, congratulations to all involved!nature.com/articles/s4147…

NEW preprint 🚨: We engineered B. subtilis (soil bacteria) to detect TNT explosive inside natural soil with a competitive microbiome. We measured function & persistence over 28 days to answer big Qs. Erin Essington's first of many papers on this topic! 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).

Excited to share our new preprint on the Taxol pathway! We developed a strategy to systematically activate and identify gene sets in non-model organisms and used it to find 8 new genes in the Taxol pathway, allowing us to biosynthesize Taxol precursors de novo. Surprisingly, this

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

Demirer Lab Caltech is looking for passionate graduate students to join us! Explore our exciting research for a sustainable future: demirerlab.com🌏🌱 Apply here to CCE or BBE applyweb.com/caltgapp/index… & mention your interest in our lab in your statement. Deadline: Dec 1

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…

Are you an early-career SynBio researcher (PhD student/postdoc/Asst Prof) at a US institution & want your work to *really* help agriculture? If so, this workshop is a great chance to learn & network. 30 places available, fully funded! Apply before Jan 15. hos.ifas.ufl.edu/advertisement/…

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. Djenet Bousbaine led the charge... nature 1/55

Check out our last pub. from Michael Fischbach lab! We discovered that skin commensal microbes induce systemic and local B cell responses upon colonization and took advantage of this knowledge to create topical vaccines using engineered skin microbes. Please read the thread for details.

After an incredible chapter at the SYBORG Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, I'm deeply grateful for all the support over the years. Thrilled to begin my postdoctoral journey at Stanford University in the Brophy Lab, where I've been warmly welcomed! Thrilled to dive into #plantsynbio in the coming years! 🌱

Delighted to be speaking at Synthetic Biology Australasia November 2025 in Wellington! I’ll be sharing our latest work in plant syn bio - come explore how biology can be redesigned to solve global challenges! 🔗 synbioaustralasia.org/upcoming-confe… #SBA2025 #SyntheticBiology #SynBioCommunity