Plants can sense light and use it to determine the shape and nutritional content of other plants, influencing their growth direction.

Understanding the molecular communication of plants, such as their responses to stress, will revolutionize precision agriculture and improve crop management.

In plant sciences, we use aerial and hyperspectral imaging to monitor forest health and identify invasive species by analyzing the spectral properties of trees.

I believe there is so much in nature that we have yet to leverage and understand, and much of our work is about unveiling new truths about the natural world.

The plant on this desk is the most complicated piece of technology, capable of self-replicating, self-repairing, and self-assembling with nanometer precision, showcasing the inherent capabilities of biology.

People will look back and realize that the current state of biology was in the dark ages, and we need more extreme experimentation to advance.

I conduct pioneering studies on how our behavior and the environment can modify our gene expression.

The challenge of achieving superintelligence is akin to asking if a team of ethnobotanists could learn to identify safe plants in Australia faster than the indigenous people who have a 50,000-year head start.

There's a significant opportunity in generating in vivo data, which is currently limited, to better understand drug interactions in real biological systems, and we're seeing breakthroughs in data-generating technology in biology and chemistry that will significantly impact how we model these fields.