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Plant SynBio Workshop
Andrew Hanson and I are co-organizing an NSF-sponsored workshop at the University of Florida main campus in Gainesville from Friday, February 28 to Sunday, March 2, 2025. This 2½-day workshop is specifically for US-based early-career researchers (ECRs). Its theme is ‘How SynBio can *realistically* impact crop improvement and agriculture’. ECRs who are considering a career…
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The Future is Here
Does anyone else feel like 2023 flew by? Here are some of the many highlights from the Designer Glycans team in the last 6 months: In the summer, both Annika and Madalen submitted their doctoral dissertations in Germany. Annika successfully defended her thesis in November. We wish Annika continued success with her postdoctoral journey at…
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Four #SynBio Positions 4 You
The Designer Glycans group is delighted to have funding for several new positions. Apply by May 15, 2023 for full consideration. Choose your own adventure: The latter three positions will be co-supervised with Dr. Andrew Hanson (adhansonlab.org) to set up a Biofoundry at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS). UF/IFAS…
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SynBio talks at the Plant Biology 2022 Worldwide Summit | July 9-13, 2022
The first concurrent session of ASPB Plant Biology 2022 meeting on “Living Factories for Plant-Based Products” will be chaired by Catalin Voiniciuc and feature a diverse panel of speakers, contributing synbio insights from all career stages. Invited Speakers: Plants and microorganisms produce a wide range of products that are at the cornerstone of our lives,…
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Live on bioRxiv: how IQD, KLCR and TRM proteins guide cellulose distribution via microtubules
In our new pre-print, we explore two outstanding questions that have been challenging to address in plant cells: What proteins control the microtubule cytoskeleton and how do they function together to influence the polarized deposition of complex polysaccharides in the cell wall? Using Arabidopsis seed coat epidermal cells as a genetic model system, we discovered…
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Designer Glycans students shine as summer ends
We are proud to highlight some of the some of our students’ accomplishments this summer. • At the start of July, Annika Grieß-Osowski and Madalen Robert received awards for their presentations (poster and talk, respectively) at the 7th International Conference on Plant Cell Wall Biology (PCWB2021) organized remotely from Japan. Congratulations to both PhD students…
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Designer Glycans, live at PCWB2021
The Designer Glycans lab is represented by four members (Catalin, Annika, Bo, and Madalen) at the 7th International Conference on Plant Cell Wall Biology (PCWB2021). Originally scheduled to take place in Sapporo, Japan last year, this meeting is now in a digital format to accommodate a global audience from June 27 to July 1, 2021.…
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Building modular hemicellulose synthases, now out in Biotechnology for Biofuels
We are happy to announce the publication of our work on modular hemicellulose production in Biotechnology for Biofuels, a leading (open-access!) journal for advancing the biological production of fuels, chemicals, and biomaterials. Here, we describe how enzymes from the cellulose synthase-like superfamily (found throughout the plant kingdom) can be assembled as modular parts (akin to…
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Funding for PhD and Postdoc Available
Two exciting career opportunities are available in the Designer Glycans group starting February 2022. The PhD and postdoctoral positions are fully funded and offer outstanding benefits. Our ambitious independent junior research group has state-of-the-art facilities for carbohydrate analysis, cell imaging and plant cultivation. We are looking for candidates who are interested in synthetic biology, plant…
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Update to our bioRxiv preprint
We significantly revised our preprint on the modular biosynthesis of plant heteromannans and uploaded the new version to bioRxiv. Full-text: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.440611v2.full