With deep sadness, we announce the passing of Dr. Andrew Hanson, C.V. Griffin Sr. Eminent Scholar in the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida. To participate in a video montage honoring Dr. Hanson, please record & share a memory by Sept 9: ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I am pleased to welcome Dr. Yiping Qi for tomorrow's ASHS Webinar (3 pm Eastern) on enhancing plant transformation and genome editing. The webinar is open to all (not only society members), but registration is required: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The #Glyco27 meeting, jointly organized with the 8th Canadian Glycomics Symposium, is off to a great start at the Edmonton Convention Center. Eric Martens showed compelling evidence on the importance of plant dietary fibers for gut health www.glyco27.org

A multidisciplinary group, including NVIDIA co-founder Chris Malachowsky, gathered yesterday to discuss AI in Biodiversity: from remote sensing of tree canopy to semi-automated bioengineering of plant enzymes ai.research.ufl.edu/ai-in-biodiv... Inspiring talks all around!

This week, we celebrate our national champions 🏀 and our incredible Gator Grads 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬

Quentin Dudley's UF SynBio Webinar on engineering plant metabolic pathways was outstanding. dudleylab.che.wisc.edu/home/ A big thank you to Kelly Balmant for organizing this event.

Three days of engaging Plant Synthetic Biology discussions from sunrise to sunset. More avenues are needed to connect academic researchers, industry and government representatives and to support multidisciplinary efforts that bring new ideas and products to market.

The 9th Annual Plant Science Symposium started with a bold talk from Rob Ferl https://buff.ly/3PLBvpE Up next, Sue Rhee from Michigan State University.

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Florida universities unite to propel space exploration https://buff.ly/40D7sXD An agreement to propel important collaborations, including plant research

Early career scientists, there's only one week left to apply for the NSF-sponsored Plant Synthetic Biology workshop at UF. https://buff.ly/3ZEzv8i Don't miss out on the opportunity to share your knowledge, learn from leading experts and network with fellow scientists.

A scary look in the mirror https://buff.ly/3ZT86jg based on a discussion of how bacterial molecules with reversed chirality could evade immune detection https://buff.ly/4iqBu7A

Our latest perspective explores the roles of glycosyl hydrolases in plant biology and how they can be improved to improve crops or biomass conversion for the circular bioeconomy: https://buff.ly/4g7MyFd #PlantScience #Bioeconomy #Sustainability 🌍📚

For the past year, Andrew Hanson and I have been co-editing a Current Opinion in Biotechnology issue on Plant Synthetic Biology 🌱🧬The full collection of perspectives from predominantly early career scientists is now online: https://buff.ly/49wuhir

Early career faculty, postdocs and students: Apply now to join us for a weekend of Plant Synthetic Biology presentations and discussions with academic, industry and government scientists in the heart of the UF Gainesville campus (Feb 28 - March 2, 2025) hos.ifas.ufl.edu/advertisemen...

For today's UF SynBio Webinar, Rebecca Smith (who recently started joined the UW-Madison faculty) will talk about lignin bioengineering. https://buff.ly/4eX32OZ

This short editorial (just over a page) in @natureplants.bsky.social is an invaluable guide to the latest techniques in proteomics and other technologies for figuring out gene function. Well worth a read. #PlantScience

I am pleased to welcome Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro as our UF SynBio Webinar speaker in two weeks. From synthetic biology + metabolic engineering to sustainable proteins and more

Today's UF SynBio Webinar features Christopher Dundas from UGA, and the development of new sucrose biosensors for rhizobacteria

Discovered a new perk of being a faculty member at UF: April 1st due date for most books

Imagine Billy in front of a PhD qualifying committee. Committee: "Billy, you have great enthusiasm and a large network of potential collaborators, but we are concerned at the lack of preliminary data to support your claims." What would Billy say? #cuisineduFyre

This is a fun exploration of the future https://buff.ly/3AyTQSt, akin to the final chapters in The Genesis Machine https://buff.ly/473nbR5 At least one part of the 2025 vision will surely benefit human health.

Each year we review proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research to translate genomic info into biological function by leveraging our DNA synthesis & ‘omics capabilities: jointgeno.me/CSPFG2024_B 🖥️🧬🧪🦠🌱🍄 @berkeleylab.bsky.social @lbnlbiosci.bsky.social @cvoiniciuc.bsky.social

“What cell are you building? E. coli? Yeast? No, the cell we are building is American” Surely the best argument to fund minimal cell research at the federal level 😊 buzzsprout.com

Florida skies are amazing