Molecular Farming with Matt DiLeo, Ph.D.

Elo Life Systems: https://elolife.com/Super excited to bring on Matt DiLeo of ELO Life Systems on today’s episode. Some of you may remember that ELO Life CEO Todd Rands was a part of 412 of this podcast two years ago. I’ve been fascinated by their work ever since to bring to the market what they call molecular farming. Matt does a great job of explaining the concept and how this shifts the value in some ways from food processors back to the farm by allowing farmers to grow desirable healthy ingredients inside of the commodity crops they already grow. It’s kinda mind blowing. Some background on Matt: Dr. Matt DiLeo serves as the vice president of research & development at Elo Life Systems. In his role, Matt applies agricultural OMICs and precision breeding technologies to advance Elo’s product pipeline. Prior to joining Elo, Matt held scientific leadership roles at Novozymes and KeyGene USA. Matt received his Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from UC Davis and completed a postdoc at the Boyce Thompson Institute, where he studied the impact of silencing regulatory genes on the nutritional composition of the tomato fruit metabolome.Matt seems to have a knack for being on the cutting edge of ag science and technology and has shown this in a variety of areas throughout his career.