Macy Vollbrecht

Email: mvollb [at] stanford.edu

Plant development is remarkably flexible, including in the stomatal lineage wherein certain stem cells can undergo variable rounds of self-renewing divisions before differentiation. I am interested in the signals and regulatory logic that encode this flexibility, specifically through controlling the decision for cells to differentiate or self-renew.

Selected publications:

• Maher M.F., Nasti R.A., Vollbrecht M., Starker C.G., Clark M.D. and Voytas D.F., 2019. Plant gene editing through de novo induction of meristems. Nature Biotechnology. (s41587-019-0337-2)
• Nasti R.A., Zinselmeier M.H., Vollbrecht M., Maher M.F. and Voytas D.F., 2021. Fast-TrACC: A Rapid Method for Delivering and Testing Gene Editing Reagents in Somatic Plant Cells. Frontiers in Genome Editing. (10.3389/fgeed.2020.621710)

Education / Research Positions:

2021 - present: PhD, Dept. of Biology, Stanford University
2020 - 2021: MPhil, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge
2016 - 2020: B.S., Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities