Our Team

Dan Voytas

Member, National Academy of Sciences
Director, Center for Precision Plant Genomics
Professor, Dept. of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota
Chief Science Officer, Calyxt Inc.

Read more about Dr. Voytas in his profile from Science magazine The Plant Engineer (2016).

voytas@umn.edu
612-626-4509

Colby Starker

Lab Manager and Research Associate

Starker received his doctorate degree from Stanford University and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota in the lab of Steve Gantt.

Contact Colby with questions about lab research and reagents.
stark224@umn.edu
612-624-5196

Kit Leffler

Administrative Associate, University of Minnesota
Freelance artist, Twin Cities

Contact Kit with marketing and public relations questions or to book a meeting with Dr. Voytas.
mleffler@umn.edu
612-301-1703

Find out more about Kit on her artist website.