Very proud moment - Ignacio - labs first grad student successfully passed his prelims today. He's been excellent. Hopefully there will be some exciting work coming out in the next few years #plantsynbio
November 20, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Very proud moment - Ignacio - labs first grad student successfully passed his prelims today. He's been excellent. Hopefully there will be some exciting work coming out in the next few years #plantsynbio
@synbio4allafrica.bsky.social #PlantSynBio education project will enable local students to sequence a native plant species and gain hands-on research and data analysis skills. They’ve secured ~76% of their microgrant.
Now they need our help to cross the finish line: experiment.com/projects/exp...
Now they need our help to cross the finish line: experiment.com/projects/exp...
Exploring African biodiversity with an open-source educational program in Plant Synthetic Biology
Much of Africa's plants have not been studied. As a non-profit, SynBio4ALL aims to study plant biodiversity in combination with emerging technology to educate and inspire future African scientists. We...
experiment.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
@synbio4allafrica.bsky.social #PlantSynBio education project will enable local students to sequence a native plant species and gain hands-on research and data analysis skills. They’ve secured ~76% of their microgrant.
Now they need our help to cross the finish line: experiment.com/projects/exp...
Now they need our help to cross the finish line: experiment.com/projects/exp...
Last but not least I was also involved in the #plantsynbio efforts of the #iGEM engineering committee, where we try to make engineering plants accessible to more iGEM teams. For that we for example created new open source plant vectors which we will distribute hopefully soon
January 23, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Last but not least I was also involved in the #plantsynbio efforts of the #iGEM engineering committee, where we try to make engineering plants accessible to more iGEM teams. For that we for example created new open source plant vectors which we will distribute hopefully soon
Synthetic tunable promoters for optimizing defense by Anuradha Dhingra - cool idea incorporating information about time of day to help modulate defenses #plantsynbio
March 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Synthetic tunable promoters for optimizing defense by Anuradha Dhingra - cool idea incorporating information about time of day to help modulate defenses #plantsynbio
👉 Donate Now: experiment.com/projects/exp....
SynBio4ALL Africa, the entire #SynBio, #PlantSynBio enthusiasts and all #Biodiversity lovers wish to appreciate you for the #generous financial support so far provided to unlock the $7000 grant from experiment foundation. @emmasebunyakato.bsky.social
SynBio4ALL Africa, the entire #SynBio, #PlantSynBio enthusiasts and all #Biodiversity lovers wish to appreciate you for the #generous financial support so far provided to unlock the $7000 grant from experiment foundation. @emmasebunyakato.bsky.social
Exploring African biodiversity with an open-source educational program in Plant Synthetic Biology
Much of Africa's plants have not been studied. As a non-profit, SynBio4ALL aims to study plant biodiversity in combination with emerging technology to educate and inspire future African scientists. We...
experiment.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
👉 Donate Now: experiment.com/projects/exp....
SynBio4ALL Africa, the entire #SynBio, #PlantSynBio enthusiasts and all #Biodiversity lovers wish to appreciate you for the #generous financial support so far provided to unlock the $7000 grant from experiment foundation. @emmasebunyakato.bsky.social
SynBio4ALL Africa, the entire #SynBio, #PlantSynBio enthusiasts and all #Biodiversity lovers wish to appreciate you for the #generous financial support so far provided to unlock the $7000 grant from experiment foundation. @emmasebunyakato.bsky.social
📜 Engineering crop resilience with synthetic gene circuits
🧑🔬 @rootbiologist.bsky.social, @watersmt.bsky.social
📔 @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #SyntheticBiology #PlantSynBio #RootBiology #PlantStress
🧑🔬 @rootbiologist.bsky.social, @watersmt.bsky.social
📔 @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #SyntheticBiology #PlantSynBio #RootBiology #PlantStress
Engineering crop resilience with synthetic gene circuits
Engineering crops to withstand environmental stresses is critical for addressing climate
change and food insecurity. Recently, Khan et al. developed CRISPR interference (CRISPRi)-based
synthetic gene ...
www.cell.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
📜 Engineering crop resilience with synthetic gene circuits
🧑🔬 @rootbiologist.bsky.social, @watersmt.bsky.social
📔 @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #SyntheticBiology #PlantSynBio #RootBiology #PlantStress
🧑🔬 @rootbiologist.bsky.social, @watersmt.bsky.social
📔 @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #SyntheticBiology #PlantSynBio #RootBiology #PlantStress
@johnathan-n.bsky.social on engineering omega-3-fatty acids in plants.
- Engineering plants takes decades
- ~100 person years to prototype
- screening 100s of events.
- Camelina - only crop can transform by floral dip
- very likely most T-DNAs are multimetized
#PlantSynbio
- Engineering plants takes decades
- ~100 person years to prototype
- screening 100s of events.
- Camelina - only crop can transform by floral dip
- very likely most T-DNAs are multimetized
#PlantSynbio
March 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
@johnathan-n.bsky.social on engineering omega-3-fatty acids in plants.
- Engineering plants takes decades
- ~100 person years to prototype
- screening 100s of events.
- Camelina - only crop can transform by floral dip
- very likely most T-DNAs are multimetized
#PlantSynbio
- Engineering plants takes decades
- ~100 person years to prototype
- screening 100s of events.
- Camelina - only crop can transform by floral dip
- very likely most T-DNAs are multimetized
#PlantSynbio
📜 Synthetic gene circuits in plants: recent advances and challenges
🧑🔬 @adil-khan.bsky.social, @ryanlister.bsky.social
📔 Quantitative Plant Biology
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/product...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantSynBio #PlantSynthBio #SynBio
🧑🔬 @adil-khan.bsky.social, @ryanlister.bsky.social
📔 Quantitative Plant Biology
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/product...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantSynBio #PlantSynthBio #SynBio
Synthetic gene circuits in plants: recent advances and challenges | Quantitative Plant Biology | Cambridge Core
Synthetic gene circuits in plants: recent advances and challenges - Volume 6
www.cambridge.org
February 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
📜 Synthetic gene circuits in plants: recent advances and challenges
🧑🔬 @adil-khan.bsky.social, @ryanlister.bsky.social
📔 Quantitative Plant Biology
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/product...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantSynBio #PlantSynthBio #SynBio
🧑🔬 @adil-khan.bsky.social, @ryanlister.bsky.social
📔 Quantitative Plant Biology
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/product...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantSynBio #PlantSynthBio #SynBio
Use of plant metabolite biosensors to modulate bacterial gene expression - making bacteria nitrogen sensitive pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#plantsynbio. and really importantly - now working on syncomms to address rhizosphere interactions with engineered bacteria
#plantsynbio. and really importantly - now working on syncomms to address rhizosphere interactions with engineered bacteria
March 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Use of plant metabolite biosensors to modulate bacterial gene expression - making bacteria nitrogen sensitive pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#plantsynbio. and really importantly - now working on syncomms to address rhizosphere interactions with engineered bacteria
#plantsynbio. and really importantly - now working on syncomms to address rhizosphere interactions with engineered bacteria
A new paper from @simonrdg.bsky.social's Lab shows how small CLE peptides can be fluorescently labeled without loosing their activity or ability to bind a receptor. 👍
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantMicroscopy #PlantSignaling #PlantSynBio #PlantCellBio
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantMicroscopy #PlantSignaling #PlantSynBio #PlantCellBio
Macromolecular toolbox to elucidate CLE-RLK binding, signaling and downstream effects
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
January 16, 2024 at 8:04 AM
A new paper from @simonrdg.bsky.social's Lab shows how small CLE peptides can be fluorescently labeled without loosing their activity or ability to bind a receptor. 👍
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantMicroscopy #PlantSignaling #PlantSynBio #PlantCellBio
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantMicroscopy #PlantSignaling #PlantSynBio #PlantCellBio
It has been four very exciting days at the #iGEM2023 Grand Jamboree in Paris. I am extremly proud of my iGEM Marburg team, which won the #plantsynbio special prize 🌱, were nominated for the Best composite part and won the gold medal.
Very much deserved for their hard work 🙌
Very much deserved for their hard work 🙌
November 7, 2023 at 3:53 PM
It has been four very exciting days at the #iGEM2023 Grand Jamboree in Paris. I am extremly proud of my iGEM Marburg team, which won the #plantsynbio special prize 🌱, were nominated for the Best composite part and won the gold medal.
Very much deserved for their hard work 🙌
Very much deserved for their hard work 🙌
Engineer plants via synthetic bio to filter seawater & store freshwater, tackling climate change. #PlantSynBio #FreshwaterSolution #ClimateAction
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bidere.2025.100009
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bidere.2025.100009
May 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Engineer plants via synthetic bio to filter seawater & store freshwater, tackling climate change. #PlantSynBio #FreshwaterSolution #ClimateAction
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bidere.2025.100009
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bidere.2025.100009
I am happy to be one of the instructors for the #PlantSynbio course here in Evora.
We are not only teaching the plantsynbio core principles, but also do a practical lab part together, where we do a plant promoter comparison via transient Ruby reporter expression 🌱
We are not only teaching the plantsynbio core principles, but also do a practical lab part together, where we do a plant promoter comparison via transient Ruby reporter expression 🌱
We kick off our #Plant #synbio course in #Evora. Supported by the #Costaction E-niche and #iGEM.
Together with @reneinckemann.bsky.social and others.
Together with @reneinckemann.bsky.social and others.
June 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I am happy to be one of the instructors for the #PlantSynbio course here in Evora.
We are not only teaching the plantsynbio core principles, but also do a practical lab part together, where we do a plant promoter comparison via transient Ruby reporter expression 🌱
We are not only teaching the plantsynbio core principles, but also do a practical lab part together, where we do a plant promoter comparison via transient Ruby reporter expression 🌱
📜 A history-dependent integrase recorder of plant gene expression with single-cell resolution
🧑🔬 Cassandra J. Maranas, Sarah Guiziou, et al.
📔 Nature Communications
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantSynthBio #PlantSynBio #PlantCellBiology #PlantMethods
🧑🔬 Cassandra J. Maranas, Sarah Guiziou, et al.
📔 Nature Communications
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantSynthBio #PlantSynBio #PlantCellBiology #PlantMethods
A history-dependent integrase recorder of plant gene expression with single-cell resolution - Nature Communications
Understanding gene expression patterns that underlie developmental programs can inform engineering efforts for new or optimized forms. Here, the authors engineer a four-state history-dependent integra...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2024 at 8:04 AM
📜 A history-dependent integrase recorder of plant gene expression with single-cell resolution
🧑🔬 Cassandra J. Maranas, Sarah Guiziou, et al.
📔 Nature Communications
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantSynthBio #PlantSynBio #PlantCellBiology #PlantMethods
🧑🔬 Cassandra J. Maranas, Sarah Guiziou, et al.
📔 Nature Communications
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantSynthBio #PlantSynBio #PlantCellBiology #PlantMethods
📜 A synthetic jasmonate receptor agonist uncouples the growth–defense trade-off in rice
🧑🔬 Junli Xiao, Yoko Nakamura, Ran Li, et al.
📔 @pnas.org
🔗 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantSynBio #Phytohormones
🧑🔬 Junli Xiao, Yoko Nakamura, Ran Li, et al.
📔 @pnas.org
🔗 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantSynBio #Phytohormones
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
pnas.org
June 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
📜 A synthetic jasmonate receptor agonist uncouples the growth–defense trade-off in rice
🧑🔬 Junli Xiao, Yoko Nakamura, Ran Li, et al.
📔 @pnas.org
🔗 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantSynBio #Phytohormones
🧑🔬 Junli Xiao, Yoko Nakamura, Ran Li, et al.
📔 @pnas.org
🔗 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantSynBio #Phytohormones
📜 Towards targeted engineering of promoters via deletion of repressive cis-regulatory elements
🧑🔬 Flora Zhiqi Wang, Krishna K. Niyogi
📔 @newphyt.bsky.social
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #PlantGenetics #PlantSynBio
🧑🔬 Flora Zhiqi Wang, Krishna K. Niyogi
📔 @newphyt.bsky.social
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #PlantGenetics #PlantSynBio
Towards targeted engineering of promoters via deletion of repressive cis‐regulatory elements
This article is a Commentary on Wang et al. (2025), 245: 2103–2116.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
📜 Towards targeted engineering of promoters via deletion of repressive cis-regulatory elements
🧑🔬 Flora Zhiqi Wang, Krishna K. Niyogi
📔 @newphyt.bsky.social
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #PlantGenetics #PlantSynBio
🧑🔬 Flora Zhiqi Wang, Krishna K. Niyogi
📔 @newphyt.bsky.social
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantGenomics #PlantGenetics #PlantSynBio
📜 Synthetic deconvolution of an auxin-dependent transcriptional code
🧑🔬 Raquel Martin-Arevalillo, Bruno Guillotin, François Roudier, @tevavernoux.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @cellpress.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #Phytohormones #PlantSynBio #PlantSyntheticBiology #Auxin
🧑🔬 Raquel Martin-Arevalillo, Bruno Guillotin, François Roudier, @tevavernoux.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @cellpress.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #Phytohormones #PlantSynBio #PlantSyntheticBiology #Auxin
Synthetic deconvolution of an auxin-dependent transcriptional code
A synthetic-biology-driven approach deciphers the ARF-dependent transcriptional code
and its contribution to specificity in gene expression in Arabidopsis, providing key
insights into how the auxin de...
www.cell.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📜 Synthetic deconvolution of an auxin-dependent transcriptional code
🧑🔬 Raquel Martin-Arevalillo, Bruno Guillotin, François Roudier, @tevavernoux.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @cellpress.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #Phytohormones #PlantSynBio #PlantSyntheticBiology #Auxin
🧑🔬 Raquel Martin-Arevalillo, Bruno Guillotin, François Roudier, @tevavernoux.bsky.social, et al.
📔 @cellpress.bsky.social
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #Phytohormones #PlantSynBio #PlantSyntheticBiology #Auxin
📜 A pilot oral history of plant synthetic biology
🧑🔬 Jaya Joshi, Andrew D. Hanson
📔 Plant Physiology
🔗 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantSynBio #SyntheticBiology #PlantDevelopment #PlantGMOs
🧑🔬 Jaya Joshi, Andrew D. Hanson
📔 Plant Physiology
🔗 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantSynBio #SyntheticBiology #PlantDevelopment #PlantGMOs
A pilot oral history of plant synthetic biology
Abstract. The whole field of synthetic biology (SynBio) is only about 20 years old, and plant SynBio is younger still. Nevertheless, within that short time, Syn
academic.oup.com
January 3, 2024 at 9:19 AM
📜 A pilot oral history of plant synthetic biology
🧑🔬 Jaya Joshi, Andrew D. Hanson
📔 Plant Physiology
🔗 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantSynBio #SyntheticBiology #PlantDevelopment #PlantGMOs
🧑🔬 Jaya Joshi, Andrew D. Hanson
📔 Plant Physiology
🔗 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...
#️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #PlantSynBio #SyntheticBiology #PlantDevelopment #PlantGMOs
Next Matt Szarzanowicz Shih Lab on making agrobacterium transformation better, noting recent pub on improved binary vectors: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantsynbio
March 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Next Matt Szarzanowicz Shih Lab on making agrobacterium transformation better, noting recent pub on improved binary vectors: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantsynbio
@jeanmichelane.bsky.social on the near term prospects of improving biological nitrogen fixation for crops by engineering diazotrophs to become ammonium excretory by modulating gene expression of nitrogenase and metabolism #plantsynbio
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
March 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
@jeanmichelane.bsky.social on the near term prospects of improving biological nitrogen fixation for crops by engineering diazotrophs to become ammonium excretory by modulating gene expression of nitrogenase and metabolism #plantsynbio
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
Future science innovators, submit your abstract for the Future of Agriculture for Sustainability conference by December 30th (11:59pm MST) to join Keynote Speaker Elizabeth Sattely and other leaders. Apply now at keysym.us/Abstracts. #KSFutureAg25 #plantsynbio #environmentalsustainability
December 19, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Future science innovators, submit your abstract for the Future of Agriculture for Sustainability conference by December 30th (11:59pm MST) to join Keynote Speaker Elizabeth Sattely and other leaders. Apply now at keysym.us/Abstracts. #KSFutureAg25 #plantsynbio #environmentalsustainability
Engineer plants to filter seawater & store freshwater via synthetic biology! Combating climate change sustainably. #PlantSynBio #WaterSolutions
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
June 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Engineer plants to filter seawater & store freshwater via synthetic biology! Combating climate change sustainably. #PlantSynBio #WaterSolutions
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Synthetic biology can engineer plants to filter seawater & store freshwater, combating climate change! #PlantSynBio #ClimateSolutions
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bidere.2025.100009
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bidere.2025.100009
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Synthetic biology can engineer plants to filter seawater & store freshwater, combating climate change! #PlantSynBio #ClimateSolutions
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bidere.2025.100009
Details: doi.org/10.1016/j.bidere.2025.100009
Great start to the #PlantSynbio workshop in Gainesville today. Tracey Chapman Pairwise, talking about limited success of prime editing in plants and introducing REDRAW as an alternative for template editing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Great start to the #PlantSynbio workshop in Gainesville today. Tracey Chapman Pairwise, talking about limited success of prime editing in plants and introducing REDRAW as an alternative for template editing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...