Spain
November 2, 2016
Iden Biotechnology is proud to announce the recent incorporation of Dr. Diego Orzaez, pioneer in research and engineering in Plant Synthetic Biology (PSB), to its Advisory panel.
Plant synthetic biology aims to apply engineering principles to plant genetic design. Plant synthetic biology facilitates the construction of increasingly complex multigene structures at the DNA level while enabling the exchange of genetic building blocks among plant bioengineers.
Dr. Orzaez research group invented one of the two main Modular DNA Assembly methods for Plants (GoldenBraid, PlosOne 2011, 63 citations) and developed probably the most complete web tool for multigene engineering in plants (GB2.0 Plant Physiol 2013). GB2.0 kits have been distributed to more than 60 plant national and international laboratories.
The incorporation of Dr. Orzaez to our Advisory Panel and it expertise in multigene plant engineering techniques, will bring new perspectives and insights to our work.
Dr. Orzaez is Tenured Scientist at IBMCP-CSIC. He made his PhD on Plant Programmed Cell Death (PCD) and started the design of plants as antibody biofactories at Wageningen University for four years. Currently, Dr. Orzaez co-leads together with Prof Antonio Granell the Plant Genomic and Biotechnology Group at the IBMCPCSIC, where he is in charge of the Genetic Engineering and Synthetic Biology projects. He was Adjunct Professor of the Department of Biotechnology of the Polytechnic University of Valencia from 2009 to 2014 and currently teaches at the Master of Plant Biotechnology in the IBMCP.
Dr. Orzaez´s main research objective is to develop precise and sophisticated genetic engineering and genome editing tools and devices for plants and to apply them to crop breeding and to the design of “synthetic” plant biofactories of end value products. He is a founding member of the International Society of Molecular Farming and hosted the final meeting of the Molecular farming COST action in Valencia in 2013.
Iden Biotechnology considers the contribution of Dr. Orzaez research to the application of molecular DNA assembly methods into plant research and genetic engineering, a highly promising area for biotech crops development that could evolve into market solutions in the seed developing sector.
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