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Job alert!! Still time to apply for a Lectureship in Plant Science and join a very vibrant and friendly department. Looking forward to receiving your application. Deadline 5/1/24 Global Plant Council Catherine Kidner SRUC Research James Hutton Institute Horticulture Research HortQFLNet

A great way to end to the week, our starchy saga is now out in PNAS. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Interested in sustainable plastic upcycling? An exciting collaborative project has just been advertised to work with Dr Joanna Sadler's lab and us on plastic upcycling using E. coli and cyanobacteria co-cultures. Please apply if you are interested! jobs.ac.uk/job/DFT835/pos…

Working towards your goals one step at a time: An interview with Plant Physiology monitoring editor Alistair McCormick buff.ly/3uQuM6X Jiawen Chen McCormick Lab

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

We've got an exciting opportunity for a PDRA to join our multi-UK lab Chlamy engineering team! Working with the Edinburgh Genome Foundry, we aim to enhance photosynthesis through a high-throughput plastome engineering strategy. Pls do apply if interested shorturl.at/bnCM8

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…

And that's a wrap. Thanks to all for coming and thanks also to the sun for showing up just in time for the group photo Ben Engel Maria Hondele Fay-Wei Li 李飛葦 @LabRichter Oliver Mueller-Cajar McCormick Lab Luke Mackinder Martin Jonikas Laura Gunn Gates Foundation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Mark Leake Physics of Life

Perspectives on improving photosynthesis to increase crop yield academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

Fantastic to see this now online. Congrats again to Angelo, Tiago and our co-authors. A toolbox to engineer the highly productive cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 11901 academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

Out now: our new review on the potential role of cyanobacteria in carbon negative emissions technologies. Great work by Angelo Victoria and Mikey Astbury, and thanks to the CTRFoundation UK and CyanoCapture for inspiration! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Many thanks to the CTRF team, it was a privilege to host you during your recent visit to our lab! It was great to share our progress on this exciting collaborative project to engineer plants for improved carbon capture. ctrfoundation.com/about-us/resou…

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

Postdoc position alert! We are teaming up with colleagues at UEA, Stellenbosch and CyanoCapture on a CTRFoundation UK funded project to engineer fast-growing cyanobacteria for growth on flue gas to help reduce CO2 emissions. Please do apply if interested jobs.ac.uk/job/DJT883/pos…

A promiscuous algal Rubisco binding protein that binds to the large subunit, can condense plant Rubiscos and functionally complement an epyc1 mutant. Congrats James Barrett + great team effort Mihris Ibnu Saleem,Michael Plevin,McCormick Lab,Jamie Blaza,Peter O'Toole. doi.org/10.1038/s41477…

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…

Excited to share our latest preprint! Proteomic analysis of the pyrenoid-traversing membranes of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii reveals novel components biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Want to make thylakoids traverse a pyrenoid matrix? Read here to find out how! Excited that this fantastic collaborative story is now published, congrats and a big thank you to all involved Martin Jonikas, Josep Vilarrasa Blasi, Robert Jinkerson and Sam Zeeman’s lab. doi.org/10.1038/s41477…

Check out this insightful commentary article for an overview of our discovery of the components needed to generate thylakoid membrane traversions through pyrenoids. Many thanks to Jean-David Rochaix. Full paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s41477… doi.org/10.1038/s41477…

Our new review is out now – well done Ella, Sabina, Nicky and Charlotte – a great collaboration with the Luke Mackinder! From algae to plants: understanding pyrenoid based CO2-concentrating mechanisms. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…