Eric Ward

biotechnology in agriculture

[Eric Ward @erward]

Help us bring The Purple Tomato to your grocery store!
https://t.co/z7KibwDpcR

[Eric Ward @erward]

@daylightco Yes please!

[Joseph Ring @josephring4]

Pattern spotted this week: do the hard thing in front of you.

-"God hates a coward"-mentor

-Listened to the alchemist again. Don't fail to follow your personal legend.

-"Do not neglect the gift that is in you"
1 Timothy 4:14

Ok.

[Hsuan Pai 白暄 @HsuanPai1]

Humongous honour to be involved in drafting the design and to have it presented by Lord Sainsbury! Looking forward to seeing the final print.
(🤫 a chocolate coin version has even been suggested)

[Eric Ward @erward]

@alexthechick A friend prompted o3 about how long it would take to read all the stuff that gets updated/added every year 🤯:

[Eric Ward @erward]

Game day @DukeFOOTBALL

[Wolf Prize @WolfPrize_]

“For groundbreaking discoveries of the immune system and disease resistance in plants.”:
Jeffery Dangl, Jonathan Jones, and Brian Staskawicz, Wolf Prize Laureates in Agriculture 2025, have revolutionized our understanding of plant immunity and disease resistance.
Celebrate their transformative work in shaping sustainable agriculture!
@TheSainsburyLab @PMB_Berkeley @UNC_Biology @HHMINEWS
#wolfprize2025
#wolfprizelaureate #wp2025laureate #wp2025agriculture #wp2025

[Eric Ward @erward]

@parmita Any reason that panspermia isn’t considered as a hypothesis? It’s consistent with finding something this complex so quickly after planet formation…

[Prof Alison Van Eenennaam (@BioBeef) @BioBeef]

Hey @ucdavis @ucanr folks in Davis - @BigPurpleTomato will be available TONIGHT!! at the Davis Farmers Market @DavisFarmMarket ! YUM Here is a picture from a tasting last year - they are delicious & my plants are growing like gangbusters in the garden and starting to set fruit🍅

[Be the change you want to be @AgBioWorld]

Ha, just got my GMO #purpletomato seeds! Price: $20 for 10seeds. Joy of planting the most transformative ag tech of my lifetime? PRICELESS!

https://t.co/LbilnzXzLa

[Eric Ward @erward]

@nabeelqu Arnold Kling agrees with you! https://t.co/8cqX0upvJT

[Gladstone Institutes @GladstoneInst]

The new study in @Nature represents a major stride for human genetics; findings will accelerate the development of new and better therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases.

@MarsonLab @StacieDodgson @R_Schmidt_ @carlcward @UCSF

https://t.co/f9ZsuRSu0m

[ralf schmidt @R_Schmidt_]

Excited to share a milestone in our forward genetics developments! Today in @Nature we report massive mutagenesis screening in T cells with base editors, increasing resolution from genes to nucleotides https://t.co/uIp3iGjrJ4
A @MarsonLab story with my dear friend @carlcward
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[Fyodor Urnov @UrnovFyodor]

.@MarsonLab #ASH23:
entire-room-gasping-with-awe data:
1. #CRISPR in T cells to map genes key to CAR-T potency
2. Amino-acid-level tiling of hits to find functional pockets.
3. Knock-in of leads for better CAR-T
= 22nd century biology in 2023 for next-gen medicines.

[Eric Ward @erward]

@BigPurpleTomato @SynBioBeta
3/3
Thu May 25 at 3pm in Davis
Invitation-only Greenhouse tours & Winery Tasting
(contact through https://t.co/O65QGz5dfp

[Eric Ward @erward]

@BigPurpleTomato @SynBioBeta
2/3
Wed May 24 at 7pm Purple Bloody Marys at The Genetic Underground: A Syn-Bio Celebration of Biopunk Innovation.https://t.co/kJVK1u0fOc

[Eric Ward @erward]

Check out the @BigPurpleTomato events at @SynBioBeta this week:
1/3
Tues 6:30PDT
Purple Salsa and samples at the Welcome Party:

[Eric Ward @erward]

@ATT Big internet outage in SW Durham,NC since Thursday evening. Affects my 90-year old Mom, who has received zero communication from you. What’s up? Planning on telling customers when service might be back up? Offering refunds for the inconvenience? Any communication at all?

[Eric Ward @erward]

@duolingo Early bird and night owl chests no longer work on iPhone after upgrading to Max? Still work on iPad…