Beer! Wine! Chocolate! Bread! Coffee?! You have yeast to thank for some of the best things in life and it hasn’t even gotten started. In this episode of Beer with a Scientist, Dr. Boeke will show us how it’s possible to literally write the future into this trusty little eukaryote’s DNA.

Jef Boeke is a National Academy of Sciences geneticist, the founding director of The Institute for Systems Genetics at NYU Langone Medical Center and one of the co-founders of GP-write (http://engineeringbiologycenter.org/).