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Milestones, submissions, talks and the occasional lab landmark. The steadier, longer-form thinking lives on the blog.

Preparing NBS2026 full paper

Working towards the 30 September full-paper deadline for the National Biotechnology Symposium, on multiplex CRISPR assembly for tropical crop traits.

Phytase manuscript under review

The molecular-screening and in silico structural study of the SPB11 β-propeller phytase has been submitted and is in peer review.

Presenting at the MARDI IBC seminar series

Delivering sessions in Bahasa Melayu on research ethics, Malaysia's biosafety framework and LMO liability and redress.

Dual-guide tomato assembly validated

Completed and sequence-verified dual-sgRNA cassettes targeting SGR1 and CYC-B, after catching an internal restriction site during design.

Scoping review reframed

Converted the CRISPR-tomato manuscript to a PRISMA-ScR scoping review, incorporating recent DNA-free protoplast editing literature.

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