Well here's a copy of the email I sent to NY Botanic's email address:
I stumbled upon your website from a poster on the DIYbio google group/mailing list. Sorry if I try to take this opportunity to mine you for questions; plant biotech is my dream.
Are public plant biotech labs common? Google searches don't seem to turn up much.
Is there anyway I can browse your research? (Papers that is)
I've applied to a disgusting amount of schools, 7 with plant science/ biotech/ bioengineering -ish programs:
University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign: Bioengineering and Horticulture
Colorado School of Mines: Bio E
Cornell: Plant Science
CalTech: BioTech
University of Southern California: Biotech, with a botany research focus
Colorado State University: Horticulture
University of Oklahoma: Botany
Are any of these schools widely recognized in this field? It's hard to find any kind of reliable source analyzing a school's academic quality in botany. I guess not enough people are interested, sadly.
If getting a job in a lab like NY Botanics, what other jobs are out there for plant scientists/ plant biotech-people? I'm strongly considering double majoring in Chemical Engineering as well to be more hireable.
Is there any other advice anyone out there can give a stressed out 18 year old trying to decide, if not the rest of his life, then the what opens the door to it?
So are you working on making gene guns more efficient? If I remember correctly from watching the Glowing Plant project's videos, you don't need the agrobacterium if the gene gun works.
Is agrobacterium regulated because of horizontal gene transfer-phobia?
I'm sure I'll think of a few more questions
Andrew Willoughby
I have a personal lab at home in NYC and will soon be moving it to a
business address. I've built my lab specifically for plant biotech and
all was procured through eBay and university auctions. Its amazing how
well set up you can get with a little patience and some negotiating. I
don't think I've spent more than $4k in total but have the value of a
few tens of thousands.
Like I've mentioned previously, the limiting factor in doing plant
biotech DIY or otherwise is agrobacterium regulations. Im working on a
way to eliminate the need for bacteria in plant transformations all
together and make it available as a kit or open source protocol using
commercially available ingredients. This just put even more fire under
my ass to get this to work.
If you have any questions just ask. I'd love to help make your research
dream a little more tangible. Its super rare to find people that are
interested so by all means ask away! :)
Sebastian S. Cocioba
CEO & Founder
New York Botanics, LLC
Plant Biotech R&D From: Andrew Willoughby
Sent: 2/4/2014 9:22 AM
To: diybio@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [DIYbio] Re: Dwarf tobacco?
Where are you doing this? I'm a high school senior and it's my dream
to do plant biotech. I'm trying to make college fit that.
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