Plant SynBio
We're hiring! If you are excited about synthetic biology and protein engineering with applications in agriculture, sustainability, and plant–microbe interactions, please contact us and include your CV and a statement of collaborative research interests and previous experience.
The Wright Plant Synthetic Biology lab integrates approaches from synthetic and computational biology, protein engineering, bioinformatics, molecular evolution, and genetics to quantify signaling dynamics, genetic interactions, and functional relationships in plant signaling. In the lab, we utilize synthetic biology and genetically tractable model bacteria, yeast, and plants to measure signaling dynamics by recapitulating small modules of complex signaling pathways in a bottom-up engineering approach. We also build tools, such as biosensors and bioinformatics tools, to facilitate quantitative top-down genetics approaches to understanding signaling.
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