Brian Staskawicz
Title
Professor; Scientific Director of Agricultural Genomics at the Innovative Genomics Reseach Institute
Department
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
Faculty URL
Research Group
Email
Phone
(510) 828-5415
Fax
(510) 642-4995
Research Expertise and Interest
biotechnology, plant and microbial biology
In the News
February 25, 2019
With nanotubes, genetic engineering in plants is easy-peasy
Inserting or tweaking genes in plants is more art than science, but with a new technique developed by University of California, Berkeley, scientists could make genetically engineering any type of plant—in particular, gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9—simple and quick.
January 24, 2017
CRISPR research institute expands into agriculture, microbiology
An initiative launched two years ago by UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco to use CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to develop new disease therapies is expanding into research on the planet’s major crops and poorly understood microbiomes.