December 2021 – Congratulations Erin on new preprint and completing PhD! Congratulations to Erin Baggs for completion her outstanding dissertation this month. Dr Baggs is the 1st PhD graduate from the lab! Two of her chapters have been published or pre-printed, and two more will come to the preprint server near you in the next…

December 2020 – The plant that lost its NLRs Congratulations to Erin Baggs on collaborative work on a duckweed Wolffia! Wolffia is one of the plant species that has fewest NLRs (only 1 left), yet it is resistant to pathogens. Michael TP, Ernst E, Hartwick N, Chu P, Bryant D, Gilbert S, Ortleb S, Baggs…

The Gordon and Betty Moore Innovator 2019 Fellowship We are thrilled to have our first grant at UC Berkeley. Ksenia and our lab were selected as one of only 5 recipients of the grant this year. The grant is focused on sustainable agriculture and boosting plant health through new protein engineering approaches (akin to antibody…