'Reprogramming Plant Stress Physiology: Reactive Carbonyl Pathways and GST Nodes as Synthetic Control Modules' by Side Selin Su Yirmibesoglu

​Plants possess highly dynamic redox and carbonyl-processing networks that help them respond to environmental stress. This seminar explores how these native systems can be reprogrammed as engineerable modules for next-generation plant synthetic biology.

​In this talk, Side Selin Su Yirmibesoglu (Ege University) will introduce a synthetic rewiring framework that treats interactions between reactive carbonyl species (RCS) and Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) as programmable control points. These interactions can be harnessed to design:

• ​Stress-inducible promoters

• ​Redox-responsive genetic circuits

• ​Metabolic rerouting strategies that enhance resilience or production

​The session will highlight how integrating CRISPR-based regulation, pathway reconstruction, and quantitative phenotyping enables plants to function as adaptive biosensing and bioproduction platforms. This work positions carbonyl metabolism as an underexplored but powerful chassis for future plant engineering.