Dr. Thai ‘Dat’ Dao worked as a postdoc in the lab from 2020-2022. Dat’s research focused on the use of genetically-encoded fluorescent hormone sensors to compare hormone biology across agricultural grass species. Dr. Dao previously earned a PhD from UC Berkeley’s Department of Plant and Microbial Biology under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Fletcher studying the effect of CLE peptides on stem cell maintainence in Arabidopsis thaliana. Dat’s work involved molecular cloning, bioengineering (particle bombardment), plant anatomy, and lots of microscopy.

Dat is a skilled scientific illustrator and is open to new collaborations for scientific communications projects.