An Applied Crop Genetics BBN

Today’s piece is a guest post by Karen Sarkisyan.1 Karen is the founder of Syntato, an applied crop genetics BBN. BBNs pursue ambitious North Star technical visions with a mix of contracts and grants. As Karen puts it, Syntato’s North Star technical vision is “computer chip design and manufacturing — but for plants.”Karen is the perfect founder to present the first example of a modern BBN in this series. Syntato has both an extremely ambitious technical goal and a great customer — one that has e...