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.

Where is the energy of #CO2 capture by algae coming from ? 🤔Easy answer: sun light☀️ In details: an intricate network of alternative pathways of photosynthesis generating ATP🔋, full story from our lab in The Plant Cell academic.oup.com/plcell/advance… Carnegie Science Stanford ENERGY

The first step on a path to C4 rice by genome editing ✂️🧬 Huge team effort from Florian Hahn Jay Jethva rita giuliani Cousins Lab @ WSU and Niels Peeters biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Two new papers out this week! Paper #1 on developing a new #hornwort #transformation method to visualize #pyrenoids Joyce Van Eck Laura Gunn JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social Boyce Thompson Inst academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

Excited to share my first corresponding & co-first author paper with Clemens Böhm! We developed cell-free extracts from chloroplasts of various plant species for rapid prototyping, accelerating #plantSynBio in chloroplasts. 🌿 Check it out! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited to share our latest preprint! Biogenesis, engineering and function of membranes in the CO2-fixing pyrenoid biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

2D classes looking promising! 🤞

We've resolved the long-debated function of periplasmic carbonic anhydrase (CAH1) in Chlamydomonas. Our study reveals its crucial role in maintaining high inorganic carbon affinity. academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

Our preprint on the interplay between algal CO2 concentrating mechanism and photorespiration is now available. We have identified LCI20 as a new player in algal photorespiration that delivers amino groups for mitochondrial glycolate metabolism. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/3

The final version of our PyShell🥧🐚 paper is now online Cell. Check out how diatoms soak up 20% of the Earth's #CO2!🌏 📜 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Brilliant work by Manon Demulder, @Jorgendottir, Ginga, Aki, Giovanni, Genji, Yusuke, and all the rest of our collabs 🤗

Check out this Research Briefing for a quick overview of our work exploring Rubisco condensation by CsLinker, an intrinsically disordered protein from Chlorella. All driven by James Barrett doi.org/10.1038/s41477…

New Article: "A promiscuous mechanism to phase separate eukaryotic carbon fixation in the green lineage" rdcu.be/dWVIx A key Rubisco phase-separating protein in the CO2-fixing pyrenoid of Chlorella algae. May aid in engineering CO2-supercharging pyrenoids in plants

I am pleased to announce the opportunities in my lab for PhD candidates interested in exploring CO2 sensing in microalgae, the regulation of photosynthesis, the roles of novel chloroplast punctate structures, and chloroplast function. If you or someone you know is curious about