Anthony Neil Tan is a research scientist working out of UC Berkeley and community biology laboratory Counter Culture Labs. His projects center on optimizing the cultivation of high-value plants via various horticultural methods and plant tissue culture.
His experience ranges from designing a plant growth chamber that won a national NASA contest to growing plants for research in UC Berkeley's Oxford Tract greenhouse to developing new plant genetic engineering tools at the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute to investigating meristem development at the USDA Plant Gene Expression Center. He is also a Wet-Lab Biology Instructor at Counter Culture Labs where he creates new protocols and teaches hands-on workshops on various techniques including hydroponic agriculture, micropropagation, and plant genetic engineering. He believes that science should be accessible to all, beyond traditional academic contexts.
