Safeguard the world’s most important crop plants by pre-adapting them to a hotter/drier planet and enhancing their resistance to disease.  

Project Examples: 

• Improve how plants perceive and respond to pathogens to reduce the impact of disease on plant health and productivity.
• Enhance climate resilience in crop plants by altering how plants detect and respond to adverse growing conditions. 

Skills: 

• Plant Biology 
• Molecular Biology 
• Genetics
• Synthetic Biology 
• Infectious Disease 
• Plant Health
• Data Analysis