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Plant Synthetic Biology for Methane Mitigation with Eli Hornstein

Plant Synthetic Biology for Methane Mitigation with Eli Hornstein22 apr51 min

On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul is joined by Eli Hornstein, founder and CEO of Elysia Bio, a company engineering feed crops to address methane emissions from livestock. Eli came to plant biotech through an unlikely path: undergraduate degrees in ecology and linguistics, conservation fieldwork across East Africa and South America, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Mongolia before a PhD in plant genetic engineering at NC State. That ecological background shapes how Eli thinks a...