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Patented nanovesicle technology, enhancing functional ingredient taste/function in F&B.

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Mazen Animal Health, Inc. is a biotechnology company transforming corn seed into the future of animal vaccines.

Mermade Seafoods is a pioneering cellular aquaculture company, bringing a novel approach and mindset for the production of cell-based seafood.

On a mission to solve food allergies and sensitivities.

Building a next-gen microbial platform, to make everything from plastics to proteins.

Grant Reviewer for UC Davis Venture Catalyst.

Food Future is a Scale-Up Accelerator for established yet small organizations with serious growth potential. Our focus is in the following food-related areas: consumer products, agriculture, food hub, ag tech, supply chain, food tech and SaaS. We support companies with scale-up business models through consulting, lab, global distribution, alternative financing, operation scaling, and financial exit. We help high growth companies move from established early product-market phase to mainstreaming their offerings.

AgFunder is one of the most active foodtech and agtech focused venture capital firms in the world. It is a new kind of VC firm that leverages its media and research platform of over 85,000 members and subscribers to give access to the best deal flow and network to support its portfolio companies.

Rhee Lab: Discovery of novel membraneless organelles in Arabidopsis thalianaPublications:Dorone, Yanniv, Steven Boeynaems, Eduardo Flores, Benjamin Jin, Shannon Hateley, Flavia Bossi, Elena Lazarus et al. "A prion-like protein regulator of seed germination undergoes hydration-dependent phase separation." Cell (2021). Featured on the cover. Nam, H.I., Shahzad, Z., Dorone, Y., Clowez, S., Zhao, K., Bouain, N., Lay-Pruitt, K.S., Cho, H., Rhee, S.Y. and Rouached, H., 2021. Interdependent iron and phosphorus availability controls photosynthesis through retrograde signaling. Nature Communications, 12(1), pp.1-13.Dorone, Yanniv, Steven Boeynaems, and Seung Y. Rhee. "Live imaging Arabidopsis thaliana embryos under different hydration conditions." STAR protocols 2.4 (2021): 101025.APA Boeynaems, Steven, Yanniv Dorone, Anca Marian, Victoria Shabardina, Guozhong Huang, Garam Kim, Anushka Sanyal et al. "Poly (A)-binding protein is an ataxin-2 chaperone that emulsifies biomolecular condensates." Available at SSRN 3917156 (2021).Bossi, Flavia, Benjamin Jin, Elena Lazarus, Heather Cartwright, Yanniv Dorone, and Seung Y. Rhee. "CHIQUITA1 maintains the temporal transition between proliferation and differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana." Development 149, no. 11 (2022): dev200565.

Rhee Lab-Investigating the biological functions of protein phase separation in plants -Characterizing a novel plant protein family that functions in stress granules.-Studying a novel and unconventionally-localized protein that is important for seed viability in Arabidopsis thaliana.Publications:Dorone, Yanniv, Steven Boeynaems, Eduardo Flores, Benjamin Jin, Shannon Hateley, Flavia Bossi, Elena Lazarus et al. "A prion-like protein regulator of seed germination undergoes hydration-dependent phase separation." Cell (2021). Featured on the cover. Nam, H.I., Shahzad, Z., Dorone, Y., Clowez, S., Zhao, K., Bouain, N., Lay-Pruitt, K.S., Cho, H., Rhee, S.Y. and Rouached, H., 2021. Interdependent iron and phosphorus availability controls photosynthesis through retrograde signaling. Nature Communications, 12(1), pp.1-13.Dorone, Yanniv, Steven Boeynaems, and Seung Y. Rhee. "Live imaging Arabidopsis thaliana embryos under different hydration conditions." STAR protocols 2.4 (2021): 101025.APA Boeynaems, Steven, Yanniv Dorone, Anca Marian, Victoria Shabardina, Guozhong Huang, Garam Kim, Anushka Sanyal et al. "Poly (A)-binding protein is an ataxin-2 chaperone that emulsifies biomolecular condensates." Available at SSRN 3917156 (2021).Bossi, Flavia, Benjamin Jin, Elena Lazarus, Heather Cartwright, Yanniv Dorone, and Seung Y. Rhee. "CHIQUITA1 maintains the temporal transition between proliferation and differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana." Development 149, no. 11 (2022): dev200565.Bossi, Flavia, Jue Fan, Jun Xiao, Lilyana Chandra, Max Shen, Yanniv Dorone, Doris Wagner, and Seung Y. Rhee. "Systematic discovery of novel eukaryotic transcriptional regulators using sequence homology independent prediction." BMC genomics 18, no. 1 (2017): 480.

Mudgett Lab-Helped develop a bio-orthogonal chemical reporter for monitoring protein acetylation.Long Lab-Designed a project to study the role of an alarmone in the formation of root nodules in Medicago truncatula.

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Levy Lab-Designed and performed experiments using the CRISPR-Cas gene targeting system to elucidate the role of DNA motifs in initiating double-strand breaks in A. thaliana.-Helped design and performed an experimental evolution project exploring the effects of hypomethylation on adaptation to stress in A. thaliana.-Characterized gene conversion and crossover rates in different A. thaliana strains.Publication:Shilo, Shay, Cathy Melamed-Bessudo, Yanniv Dorone, Naama Barkai, and Avraham A. Levy. "DNA crossover motifs associated with epigenetic modifications delineate open chromatin regions in Arabidopsis." The Plant Cell (2015): tpc-15.

Wigge Lab-Contributed to a project aiming to identify epigenetic regulators involved in A. thaliana temperature perception.-Advanced a forward genetic screen of a mutagenized A. thaliana population for components of the temperature perception pathways.

Bomblies Lab-Helped design and advance a project to discover the modes of inheritance in the autotetraploid plant species Arabidopsis arenosa.-Established molecular genetic techniques in A. arenosa. Publication:Yanniv Dorone. "Diploidization of meiosis in autetraploids" BioSciences Master Reviews (2013)

Mechulam Lab-Studied the initiation of translation in the archeon Pyroccocus Abyssi.