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.

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.

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

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

Florida skies are amazing