Our latest work on artificial photosynthesis for food production was just published online Nature Food It’s a great collaboration with Professor Jinkerson UC Riverside nature.com/articles/s4301…

Check out the National Geographic article about our recent work on growing food w/o photosynthesis written by Maddie Stone Can food crops grow in the dark? Scientists are working out how. nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar…

Congrats Dr. Liza M. Roger on your Frontiers - Marine Science work using cerium dioxide nanoparticles to mitigate ROS/RNS in #Symbiodiniaceae. Glad our lab could help your effort on this interesting approach and looking forward to seeing where you can take this idea! 🪸? frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

"We've gotten pretty good at building successful startups, but we're not very good at translating that into sustainable businesses and commercial successes." Interesting read from Solt DB on "How to Win in Synthetic Biology" ko-fi.com/post/How-to-Wi…

Congratulations Elizabeth Hann on winning the 2022 Outstanding Grad Student Award!!

Thrilled to be organizing a plenary symposium ASPB with Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi Lauren Azevedo-Schmidt, PhD Robert Jinkerson Janet Jansson who will speak on the science that will prepare us for the journey across the solar system #PlantBio23 #plantsinspace NASA Space Science

Our work on producing food without photosynthesis has been featured in a news article Science Magazine written by Bob Service! Check it out to learn about how we are trying to reimagine food production on Earth and in space! 🚫☀️➡️🌱🍅🍄➡️🍽️ science.org/content/articl…

Crops grown without sunlight could help feed astronauts bound for Mars, and someday supplement dinner plates on Earth. Learn more in this News from Science feature: scim.ag/37H

Excited to have joined the Bioengineering Department UC Riverside. Our lab is looking for postdocs to join our #NSF funded project on discovery and functional characterization of genes for ciliate-algal symbiosis. If you are interested, please apply below: sites.google.com/view/thexiangl…

Thrilled to share my insights in this recent Forbes article discussing farms of the future! Thanks to Juergen Eckhardt and Kira Peikoff Leaps by Bayer for writing the story forbes.com/sites/juergene…

I'm impressed to see the SPACE tomatoes from Robert Jinkerson they are making space agriculture a reality #PlantBio23 ASPB