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Plant Biology Institute
Feeding the world’s growing population in the face of climate change by enabling every farm on earth to produce more food with fewer resources and less land.
Dr Matt DiLeo
Matt DiLeo is the Divisional Director, Technology Development for the Plant Biology Institute within the Ellison Institute of Technology. Here, Matt leads both the technology platform and operations teams, helping to drive scientific discoveries in plant biology towards commercial impact in food and agriculture.
Previously, he led R&D and served on the board of directors at Elo Life Systems, a Series A plant biotechnology startup located in the U.S. In this role, Matt led the development of two product leads (a molecular farmed natural sweetener and a disease resistant gene-edited banana) from concept to field trials in addition to closing $7M in new plant gene editing partnered projects. His team’s work was featured in multiple podcasts and interviews, including Bloomberg and NPR’s Science Friday. Prior to this, Matt was responsible for scientific operations for the plant gene editing team at Precision Biosciences (DTIL) and led the application development team for Novozymes’ joint agricultural microbial product development effort with Monsanto.
Matt earned his Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the University of California, Davis and started his career in plant biotechnology developing computational tools and plant phenotyping assays at Cornell University and KeyGene, Inc.
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The PBI team aims to improve global food production and biosphere health through advances in plant science research. Our work integrates cutting-edge technologies spanning AI and synthetic biology with advanced genome editing to develop climate resilient plants. The goal is to produce more food from less land using fewer resources, such as nitrogen fertilisers. By combining fundamental research with applied innovation, we can accelerate the translation of discoveries into scalable agricultural solutions. In doing so, we lay the foundation for a more resilient and regenerative agricultural future that benefits both people and the planet.
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