Jason Matos is a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Member Jing-Ke Weng’s lab studying how plants make medicinal molecules. In Jing-Ke’s lab, one of the main things do is try to find out how plants make the molecules that they make, many of which are useful to us. Historically, many medicines come from plants, and often the way that we get them is by extracting them from the source. But for a couple of different reasons, like the difficulty of extraction procedures and the small quantities of the molecule that plants produce, we want to improve on how we get these molecules.
