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Congratulations to Savio for being selected by the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee to receive a Recognition Travel Award to attend the Plant Biology 2024 Meeting (PB 2024) in Honolulu, HI, on June 22-26, 2024!
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The lab's newest research is available as a pre-print in bioRxiv. Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.05.574427
Ferreira, S.S. & Antunes, M.S. (2024) Genetically encoded Boolean logic operators to sense and integrate phenylpropanoid metabolite levels in plants
- Check out our most recent paper in Plant Physiology describing the development of genetically encoded Boolean AND logic gates that are capable of integrating a biotic and an abiotic stress in Arabidopsis plants. Access the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad254
- Ruhbani presented a poster describing her work on "CRISPR/Cas9-induced mutation of the microRNA171b gene in Arabidopsis thaliana" at the UNT Scholars Day on April 4, 2023. This annual event is organized by The Honors College at UNT.
- Our invited Mini Review titled "A Logical Way to Reprogram Plants" on genetically encoded Boolean logic gates to reprogram plant function is now published online in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications! This Mini Review is part of the journal's Special Issue on Synthetic Plant and Microbial Biology. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.02.080
- Congratulations to Charles Anderson for successfully defending his Master's thesis on October 31, 2022! The title of his thesis is: "Developing a generalizable two-input genetic AND logic gate in Arabidopsis thaliana for multi-signal processing"
- Check out our newest publication in ACS Synthetic Biology! Amack, S.C.; Ferreira, S.S.; Antunes, M.S. (2023) Tuning the Transcriptional Activity of the CaMV 35S Promoter in Plants by Single-Nucleotide Changes in the TATA Box. ACS Synthetic Biology 12(1): 178-185. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.2c00457
- Antunes Lab alum Stephanie Amack was just accepted into the Biomedical Informatics Masters Program at the UT Health School of Bioinformatics. Congratulations Stephanie!