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Lustro: High-Throughput Optogenetic Experiments Enabled by Automation and a Yeast Optogenetic Toolkit
Zachary P Harmer1, Megan N McClean1,2
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.
ACS Synthetic Biology
|July 11, 2023
Summary
This study developed a high-throughput method for engineering optogenetic tools in yeast. The automated system accelerates the design and optimization of light-sensitive transcription factors for precise cellular control.
Area of Science:
- Synthetic biology
- Molecular biology
- Biotechnology

