We genetically disconnected starch from the matrix in the algal pyrenoid!
A saga1;saga2 double mutant lacks a pyrenoid starch sheath!
Our model: SAGA1 & SAGA2 locally initiate starch on the pyrenoid surface by enriching starch precursors.
🌞🦠🔬🔌👀
https://t.co/yjBV1nAfDc
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) — a major funder of basic research — has restricted the flow of new research grants to a group of elite universities, Nature has learnt.
https://t.co/dUcCrJh4Dm
To all scientists immigrants: This is an amazing opportunity. The Vilcek family is super generous and has rewarded many immigrant scientists including Nobel Laureate @kkariko. Hope everyone eligible applies !
@hhmi_science's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars
Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, + salary & benefits. Postdocs can apply too. Opens 11/3! https://t.co/8GsyrLUdq6
Alexander Ploss, Princeton’s Harry C. Wiess Professor of Life Sciences and Molecular Biology, and the co-director of the Global Health Program, was awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of medicine and health. 🥂 https://t.co/F2KsWJLAVK
Today in Nature Cell Biology, a collaborative effort across labs (Jonikas, Wingreen, Brangwynne) at Princeton discovers the key to regulating a biomolecular condensate. Congrats to first authors Shan He and Linnea Lemma! https://t.co/0MBOqKLMrr
Now published @NatureCellBio!
Kinase KEY1 controls pyrenoid condensate size throughout the cell cycle by disrupting phase separation interactions
https://t.co/u5UxgXOZtR
Algal pyrenoids—condensates that mediate ~1/3 of Earth’s CO2 fixation—change size and number as cells divide. Our data suggest a simple control mechanism: a kinase that continuously ejects material from the condensate! ☀️🌍🔬💧 #Biophysics#Photosynthesis
https://t.co/kT5C14FXXI
We genetically disconnected starch from the matrix in the algal pyrenoid!
A saga1;saga2 double mutant lacks a pyrenoid starch sheath!
Our model: SAGA1 & SAGA2 locally initiate starch on the pyrenoid surface by enriching starch precursors.
🌞🦠🔬🔌👀
https://t.co/yjBV1nAfDc
We genetically disconnected starch from the matrix in the algal pyrenoid!
A saga1;saga2 double mutant lacks a pyrenoid starch sheath!
Our model: SAGA1 & SAGA2 locally initiate starch on the pyrenoid surface by enriching starch precursors.
🌞🦠🔬🔌👀
https://t.co/yjBV1nAfDc
Excited to share our latest preprint!
Proteomic analysis of the pyrenoid-traversing membranes of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii reveals novel components https://t.co/k8w79anycc
Algal pyrenoids—condensates that mediate ~1/3 of Earth’s CO2 fixation—change size and number as cells divide. Our data suggest a simple control mechanism: a kinase that continuously ejects material from the condensate! ☀️🌍🔬💧 #Biophysics#Photosynthesis
https://t.co/kT5C14FXXI
How did the US become the global leader in science and technology? Answer: decades of federal investment in basic research, including through the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy. https://t.co/5gVcHGGxG6
Algal pyrenoids—condensates that mediate ~1/3 of Earth’s CO2 fixation—change size and number as cells divide. Our data suggest a simple control mechanism: a kinase that continuously ejects material from the condensate! ☀️🌍🔬💧 #Biophysics#Photosynthesis
https://t.co/kT5C14FXXI
📣 📣 Wondering what allow diatoms to grow in the ever-changing environment 🌦️of the ocean🌊?
Check out or latest work where we develop genome-wide CRISPR screen to unravel the genes🧬 critical for diatoms under dynamic light conditions☀️🌥️👇
Spoiler alert: it is (almost) not about NPQ 👀 and CEF is heavily involved 🫣
https://t.co/c7QM5RA5Pm
Amazing collaborative work with @Yeh_Lab
Attached image from @Sarah_Frail
I was deeply saddened today to learn of the passing of Steve Long @LongLab. He was a pioneer and an inspiration to so many of us. Find his obituary here: https://t.co/781gR6Sf62