Alex Borowsky

Postdoc at Stanford in the Brophy Lab, Developing technologies to engineer plants

[Plantae @plantae_org]

Plant Science Research Weekly: August 23 https://t.co/rc0EiTp5Zv Three reviews: Membrane remodeling to cope with cold; Rewiring gene regulatory networks for plant improvement; Stem-borne roots to study trans-organogenesis (1/3)

[Alex Borowsky @atborowsky]

@JohnathanNapie1 @PlantTeaching @jnbserres Ultimately, if we want to speed things up, need to have sufficient funds (or more efficient regulatory processes) to start regulatory approval in parallel with validation that the engineering works in the field.

[Alex Borowsky @atborowsky]

Interested in how we can leverage all this fancy new omics data to improve plants for productivity under climate change? @jnbserres and I share our ideas in this new review: https://t.co/ezXV7TvHct

[Alex Borowsky @atborowsky]

@JohnathanNapie1 @PlantTeaching @jnbserres Investments here are mostly coming from industry. Gene editing regulations can be less expensive and time consuming, but that can mean a lot of bending over backwards to design an editing strategy when a simple transgene approach can do the same job.

[Alex Borowsky @atborowsky]

Free to read link: https://t.co/M7xKgUGZWI

[Alex Borowsky @atborowsky]

@adeelzafarpbg Thanks Adeel!

[Noé Perron @Noeperron01]

I cannot stress enough how happy I am to share this with you. Most of the work carried out over the last two years of my PhD has finally been brought together in a manuscript, now available on biorxiv: https://t.co/MCl6CaJSqm

[WheeldonLab @LabWheeldon]

Sean Cutler, @cutlersr, and I are looking for post docs and students to join us on a collaborative project. Email us if you have interests in plant synbio and turning plants into sensors. [email protected], [email protected]

[Sean Cutler @cutlersr]

We developed a new CID module that can be reprogrammed to bind diverse ligands. It works very well in plants, and we used it to make plant-based biosensors. W/ @LabWheeldon, T. Whitehead, @NusinowLab, @bvolkie, @BeltranJBio, https://t.co/5LaJx33wWN

[Alex Borowsky @atborowsky]

@Ferebee2PhD I can refer you, just need your email address.

[Alex Borowsky @atborowsky]

@ArpitaBKulkarni @CellAtlas 3. Spatial technologies are coming rapidly to the plant space! See PHYTOMAP: https://t.co/LHxtqZU5nj, application of curioseeker (slide seq) https://t.co/OidjV2zpIa, and stereo-seq https://t.co/amDc9Ck8Vx. Many groups have used 10X Visium.

[Alex Borowsky @atborowsky]

@ArpitaBKulkarni @CellAtlas The advent of long read sequencing really helped with the genome issue, as many plant species have very large genomes with high repeat content. There are many plants which don’t yet have genome sequences, but more likely the issue is the lack of $$$ for this type of research!

[Alex Borowsky @atborowsky]

@ArpitaBKulkarni You haven't quite captured the current state of the field- connect with me or other members of the @CellAtlas community if you want to learn more.

[@pcronald @pcronald]

How can we create climate-resilient varieties and increase the carbon-capture potential of croplands? Check out this newly published collection of article. Congrats to all authors & thanks to Editor Joanna Clark ⁦@PLOSBiology⁩ for many contributions. https://t.co/oIQg4pc9Zb