Kasey Markel

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

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.