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My very first first-author research article is officially available The ISME Journal! See what it’s like for a bacterium to live off Chlamy’s photosynthesis under continuous &diurnal light. doi.org/10.1093/ismejo…

Sabeeha’s 3rd phd student Hong Hua Li visited us in our laboratory today. Her work on plastocyanin has stood the test of time and she retired after a career in neurobiology. We love seeing our alumni!

Excellent plant scientists, colleagues and friends; stimulating & insightful scientific discussions; fun & exciting conversations; and fantastic cuisine at the restaurant called “Botanist”. What would you need more? Thanks Annual Reviews 🌹🌻🌱🌲🌾🍋🍅🌽🥰

Thrilled to share our latest preprint on how Chlamy acclimates to light stress under day-night cycles! We provide a genome-wide view of the central dogma, correlate changes in thylakoid membranes with the lipidome, track photodamage, quenching, and more. doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

Former merchant lab students getting dinner in Berkeley after a great seminar by Gregg! Pictured are Jeff, Gregg and Kent from 2000, 1994 and 1993.

Brilliant talks in Stockholm! Featuring David Baker, 2024 nobel prize winner and former student of the Schekman lab.

I am excited to share our discovery on how the Fe-rich eukaryotic Photosystem I (PSI) has an additional LHCI tetramer in Fe starvation from two green algae species isolated from drastically different environmental niches. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Congratulations to grad student Marco Dueñas on receiving an F31 NIH fellowship for his work on the polycistronic project! His research aims to uncover the elusive functions of these enigmatic genes and advance the use of the green algae Auxenochlorella for synthetic biology!

Celebrating the holidays and November birthdays with the Merchant lab—wishing everyone a joyous holiday with warmth and cheer!🎄🎊 Thanks to Flores Emeryville for hosting us!

Marco presented his work on the polycistronic project at the UCSF Bay Area RNA club and was selected as one of the best talks! Keep an eye out for more polycistronic updates to come!

We are thrilled to welcome Liam Sheedy as our newest Ph.D. student in our lab! 🧪

The Merchant lab has just released a preprint detailing the Auxenochlorella genome! This alga has precise gene targeting useful for both basic biology and engineering applications. Be on the look out for more publications soon from the Auxeno team soon! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Merchant lab's latest work on polycistronic expression in green algae is published in PNAS! Come find out how we uncovered the mechanism driving multiple ORF translation and its potential for synthetic biology! Congrats to Marco Dueñas and team! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

This month's interview is with Marco Dueñas, a PhD candidate in Sabeeha Merchant’s lab! He chats with us about his recent paper in PNASNews, overcoming research challenges, and more. Read the story: bit.ly/m-duenas

Graduate Student Marco Dueñas recently did an interview with QB3-Berkeley on our recent polycistronic paper out in PNASNews. Come read below! qb3.berkeley.edu/news/focus-on-…

Sabeeha wrote about the history of her research in this article, take a look! kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…