Seeking more educators! Animation lab postdoc Shraddha Nayak has been working on visualizations of metabolic flux. If you're teaching these concepts, we'd love your your help developing these animations and educational modules (which will be freely shared online).

This Selaginella sp. from Sri Lanka turns silver in the evening as its chloroplasts change shape from discoid to spherical. It is thriving in the Tropical Plant Conservatory Fairchild Garden #PlantingMondays

The #pyrenoid is a mysterious algal liquid-like organelle which plays a major role in the global carbon cycle. We are excited to share a preprint describing the structural basis for the formation of the pyrenoid matrix in #Chlamy! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Years in the making - a peroxidase-encapsulating nanocompartment helps M. TB survive oxidative stress in acidic environments including in hosts! Amazing collaboration between Katie Lien, Bobby Digit4L Nichols and Caleb CA, #SavageCats and Stanley Lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I hope people watching the ferocity of the fires plaguing California appreciate the incredible people fighting and leading rescue missions in these infernos in almost incomprehensibly difficult and dangerous conditions. Thank you CPF.

When COVID-19 broke out grant agencies rushed to provide funding for research. So where is the same response for these unprecedented wildfires? Research on climate change, forest maintenance, and health impacts from wildfire smoke should be funded ASAP!

Can someone just cut to the chase here. Is Venus habitable and when can we go?

If you have an unused N95 or KN95, please consider donating it to your local postal worker. They are out here delivering mail in this awful smoke, many wearing only cloth masks, which do not protect against small particles.

Two WOMEN!!!!! For the first time, two women share a Nobel! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

A historic day that we've all been waiting for! Congrats to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna!!!

Their names spelled greatness: Emmanuelle "DNA Carpenter" Charpentier and Jennifer "Do-u-DNA" Doudna

Congrats @realarikshams !!

When asked- Prof. Jennifer Doudna did not hesitate to accept the invitation to give a talk to undergraduate and high school students from Puerto Rico. It should be noted that the majority of the audience will be minorities in STEM. #womeninSTEM The Nobel Prize Institute for Geographic Information Science @doudna_lab

The #pyrenoid mediates one-third of global CO2 fixation, but how does it assemble? Our just-published paper explains how. Congrats to Moritz and the team including Luke Mackinder! advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/46/e…

Wild!

Every day in the Savage Lab we ask ourselves, "what's new with #carboxysome engineering?" If you find yourself new to this line of thinking, fear not! Our own Julia Borden has authored a #review on the topic for your reading pleasure! 👇 #synbiothoughts sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We'll miss you Cissi! Best of luck starting your new lab!

Registration is now open for our free Grounds for #Science event! Hear from Julia Borden about different strategies to capture carbon from the atmosphere & learn from April Myers about advancements in neurobiological research! 🧠 Register: ow.ly/nKWd50FhcoN

Wowww, carboxysomes? 😯 Carbonic anhydrases?? 😮‍💨 RUBISCO??? 🤯 This preprint from Savage Cat Cecilia Blikstad (now Group Leader at @UU_University) has it all!! Check out the thread below for an explainer. Congrats Cissi et alia! 🦠

Beautiful paper by Cecilia Blikstad et al. uncovering how carbonic anhydrase gets packaged into the carboxysome! A major step forward towards understanding how cyanos build their carbon fixation machinery. Congrats Cissi!