Research Group
Biography
I’m originally from a corn and soybean farm in Minnesota, USA. I received my BS from North Dakota State University where I studied cereal grain RNA viruses. I then moved to the University of Minnesota for my PhD with Dan Voytas’ group. During my PhD my research mainly focused on developing RNA viral vectors as delivery constructs for tissue-culture free gene editing as well as several other projects relating to plant synthetic biology and vector platform development.
I received my PhD in early 2022 and joined Giles Oldroyd’s group at the Crop Science Centre where I am working to bring high-throughput gene editing technologies to the centre and using those technologies to engineer better nutrient acquisition.
Qualifications
2022, PhD, University of Minnesota
2016, BS, North Dakota State University
Publications
Multiplexed heritable gene editing using RNA viruses and mobile single guide RNAs. 2020. Nature Plants 6, 620–624
Heritable base-editing in Arabidopsis using RNA viral vectors. 2020. Plant Physiology 189, 4, 1920–1924
Protein expression and gene editing in monocots using foxtail mosaic virus vectors. 2019. Plant Direct 3 (11):e00181
Targeted mutagenesis in wheat microspores using CRISPR/Cas9. 2018. Science Reports 8; 1-10. Article 6502
