IOB Adjunct Faculty Member Edits Plant DNA
Dr. CJ Tsai, adjunct faculty member in the Institute of Bioinformatics, has made modifications to the genome of a tree species for the first time. Dr. Tsai is working with a gene editing tool called CRISPR/Cas to make genomic changes to specific genes in the genus Populus — a group of deciduous trees. For more information, please see the article published on UGA today. The article can be found here.