I'm excited to share our new Darwin Review in JXB on 'The effect of increasing temperature on crop #photosynthesis: from #enzymes to #ecosystems' Review: bit.ly/38OZT4w Press release: news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1834…

It's PyShell day!!🥧🐚 Very exciting work by Luke Mackinder! The high-throughput tagging is a breakthrough development for spatial interactomics in diatoms🌍🌊. And how many PyShell proteins did they find here in T. pseudonana? ...1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6! 🤩

Offering a prestigious 4-year Sainsbury PhD to work on Algal CO2-fixation. Open to all nationalities. Opportunity to co-design project on the dissection and synthetic assembly of efficient CO2-fixation. #SynBio #LLPS #Pyrenoid #Photosynthesis Please RT. findaphd.com/phds/project/f…

Luke Mackinder, Glen Wheeler and I are looking to recruit a Natural Environment Research Council funded PhD student to study CO2 concentrating mechanisms in macroalgae and seagrass. Split between the beautiful cities of York and Plymouth! Biology at York Please share/get in touch: findaphd.com/phds/project/f…

Recruiting a Postdoc to work on biomolecular condensation of Rubisco for CO2-fixation. Deadline 15th January. jobs.ac.uk/job/DEW607/pos… Please RT.

Congratulations Dr Abi Perrin and team for developing this new resource. CyanoTag: Discovery of protein function facilitated by high-throughput endogenous tagging in a photosynthetic prokaryote biorxiv.org/content/10.110… . Explore the data here: morf-db.org/projects/York-… Algae-UK #algae

I just published: What’s a toxic environment for a PhD student? Being aware of potential red flags when selecting a host lab is crucial. Here are some issues I’ve witnessed over the years. #phdchat #AcademicChatter link.medium.com/O5fd2PQ0GHb

By generating mutant strains and performing phenotypic analysis, we have elucidated the contribution of extracellular carbonic anhydrase in the CO2-concentrating mechanism, a long-standing controversy since its discovery more than 30 years ago. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Delighted to launch the CyanoTag database from Luke Mackinder now freely available to browse in MORF db! Over 600 S.elongatus proteins were tagged with fluorescent protein to determine location, abundance and interactions. Take a look at the data here: morf-db.org/projects/York-…

CsLinker: an algal pyrenoid assembly protein that binds the RbcL, complements across 800 My of evolution and phase separates plant Rubisco. Very excited to share this work by James Barrett, Jamie Blaza, Michael Plevin, Mark Leake, McCormick Lab. Martin Jonikas doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

What a super meeting! With creative new ways to do research at the beautiful edges of physical and life sciences you really really can make transformative progress that, frankly, will have global and long-lasting impact… Physics of Life

❗️Two weeks left to apply for this position! ❗️ #phd #phycology #CRISPR #carboncapture #ulva

Out from our lab: a toolbox for chloroplast engineering . Paving the way towards synbio in chloroplasts. Fantastic work by René Inckemann Tanguy Chotel Cedric K. Brinkmann Michael Burgis and labs of Felix Willmund Luke Mackinder James Barrett biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super happy to have contributed in a small way to this monumental effort by René et al.! This is a really amazing piece of work that significantly advances our ability to engineer chloroplasts.

A game changer in chloroplast engineering. We are already hugely benefitting from the tools. Well worth reading the thread to see how it was achieved

Great to be part of this multi-disciplinary project. See the insightful thread by @CharlSchaef explaining how we worked across disciplines to predict phase diagrams that we experimentally validated #pyrenoid

Meet a fantastic group of researchers working on our project #ECR #PDRA

Another major hurdle overcame in plant pyrenoid engineering to enhance CO2 fixation - how to traverse the Rubisco condensate with thylakoid membranes. Congratulations Martin Jonikas McCormick Lab Jessica Hennacy Nicky Atkinson

Super excited to share our latest work on the native in-cell organization of the mitochondrial respiratory chain 🥳 Using cryo-electron tomography🔬, we show how the respiratory complexes (and other complexes) are organized inside native mitochondria!  biorxiv.org/content/10.110…