Kasey Markel

This paper refactors the Agrobacterium tumor-inducing plasmid into a minimal set of genes for plant and fungal transformation, demonstrating a bottom-up engineering approach.

This study engineers cytokinin regulators in Arabidopsis to modulate root development by tuning gene expression through synthetic biology.

This study produces diverse human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) in transgenic plants, demonstrating their potential for cost-effective and sustainable large-scale production compared to microbial methods.

The paper identifies and validates activation domains in non-transcription factor proteins across Arabidopsis and yeast, discovering novel coactivators and universal genetic parts for synthetic biology.

The paper introduces the OpenPlant toolkit for bioengineering in Marchantia polymorpha, enabling efficient plant transformation and gene expression studies without specialized facilities.