The nitroplast is the new thing! Very proud to have been part of this work in the early days. science.org/toc/science/38…

Happy to have both of these papers out on the UCYN-A nitroplast organelle!

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

kendraturk Esther Mak Tyler Coale Fran Cornejo Kei Inomura valentina loconte

See also related paper: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

A nitrogen-fixing organelle, or “nitroplast,” has been identified in a marine alga. This discovery sheds light on the evolutionary transition from endosymbiont to organelle.

Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/6yX

Metabolic trade-offs constrain the cell size ratio in a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Out online Open Access now: Jon Zehr and Douglas G. Capone discuss 'Unsolved mysteries in marine nitrogen fixation'

dlvr.it/SvXkcT

PP Systems is proud to support the 32nd Western #Photosynthesis Conference. Lots of great speakers lined up! Earth and Environmental Sciences at Berkeley Lab @caltech Berkeley Lab Jon Zehr Dr Varsha S. Pathare Laura Gunn Jen Johnson Carnegie Science Setsuko Wakao bit.ly/CIRAS-4

Here is the starting of an exciting Western Photosynthesis Conference ! 👀 Thanks Setsuko Wakao and Patrick Shih for organizing 🥰

Snoozing otters.

For my old contacts here on Twitter, I have mostly moved to @diazo.troph on Instagram, but here is a photo or two. I know at least one of you misses the Central Coast. ;)

I think this heron is confused.

BREAKING NEWS:

On the basis of vote counts from the first 11 rounds of voting for the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives WE CAN NOW PREDICT that Kevin McCarthy will receive zero votes in the 676th round of voting which will take place on June 14th, 2023.

Just before Mars disappears behind the Moon tonight. (Use magnifying glass lower left ).

Mars occultation, San Francisco, December 7,2022.

Parisian shrooms.

Did you know it is theoretically illegal to use illuminated images of the Eiffel due to copyright?

A timeless Parisian walk