Who Are We
We are a team of interdisciplinary scientists and engineers pursuing a high-risk, high-reward approach to reprogram plant gene regulatory networks, aiming to fundamentally transform nitrogen use in bioenergy crops and enable step-change reductions in agricultural N₂O emissions.
Gloria Coruzzi – Lead PI
Systems Biology & Crop Translation
Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Biology
NYU Center for Genomics and Systems Biology
Lisa Ainsworth – Co-PI
Field-Based Nitrogen Use & N₂O Emissions Research
Interim Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Matthew Brooks -Co- PI
Systems Biology of Nitrogen Use Efficiency & Photosynthesis
Research Molecular Biologist; Assistant Professor
USDA-ARS Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, Urbana, Illinois, United States
Laurie Leonelli – Co-PI
Assistant Professor
Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dennis Shasha – Co-PI
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
Tim Jeffers
Computational Biologist & Project Manager
PostDoc in the Coruzzi Lab
NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology
Richard Broglie
Tech-To-Market Consultant
Ag Forward Advisors