Tanner Robison

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

Organ-specific expression of phosphate transporter, proton pump, and phosphatase genes in Marchantia polymorpha.

Rhizoids function as nutrient uptake organs in a non-vascular land plant

Kanno et al.

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Plastomes of Anemiaceae with (Anemia hirsuta, outer plastome) or without (A. labiakii, inner plastome) a large insertion between the trnV-UGC and ndhC genes, where the Mobile Open Reading Frames in Fern Organelles cluster is located.

Evolutionary mobility and genetic dynamics of MORFFO genes: shuttling among ancient plant lineages

Labiak et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If fear is the mind killer, then comfort is the soul killer.

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List of papers you promised yourself you'd read on the plane but deep down know that you wont?

Not even "NGS verified" plasmids from twist... don't ask me how I know

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?

Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
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Great fun working with Manajit Hayer-Hartl and her amazing team at @mpibiochem.bsky.social bringing this work on the beta-carboxyome protein ApN (CcmN) together.

Look at this 🙂 #CryoEM

Structural basis for CTCF-mediated chromatin organization by @lucas.farnunglab.com @voslab.org

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Functional characterisation of bicarbonate transporters from the cyanobacterial SbtA2 family and subsequent expression in tobacco Abstract. Cyanobacteria rely on bicarbonate (HCO3-) as the primary inorganic carbon (Ci) source for photosynthesis in aquatic environments. To use this Ci

Functional characterisation of bicarbonate transporters from the cyanobacterial SbtA2 family and subsequent expression in tobacco academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

SAGA1 and SAGA2 localize the starch sheath to the pyrenoid in Chlamydomonas reinhardti

@mjonikas.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How does molecular valency shape condensate assembly and function? We used the CO2-fixing organelle in algae—the pyrenoid—to find out… 🧵

Preprint here!:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@cellarchlab.com @phaips.vd.st @biologyatyork.bsky.social
#Rubisco #PhaseSeparation #Condensates #Pyrenoid

Next week we will have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Tanner Robison. Tanner will be talking about carbon concentrating mechanisms and hornwort pyrenoids !
@btiscience.bsky.social @ulaval.ca @ulaval.ca
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sticker number modulates pyrenoid condensate assembly to support algal fitness

Looking forward to reading this! @james-r-barrett.bsky.social @phaips.vd.st ps.vd.st

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Having fun with the microscope lately. Here’s one of my favourite artsy and slightly psychedelic shots of #Marchantia chloroplasts and a fluorescent membrane reporter. (z-stack maximum projection)

The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Alex Pretti, Killed by ICE, Was One of Us Yesterday morning in Minneapolis, ICE agents murdered a member of our community, 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Learn more here...

From my go-to bikepacking website where I've never read anything remotely political. That's where we're at now bikepacking.com/news/alex-pr...

I know I'm a 1L and can't really claim to know what the Constitution means. But I have to say that I am so incredibly demoralized and angry over what has been happening in Minnesota, to say nothing of all the other horrible things ICE has been doing all over for months (and probably longer than l'm aware of) plus this administration's actions on, well, nearly everything. But the two most recent killings and the administration's response has left me wondering what the hell we are studying the law for? Is justice really so fragile, so easily ignored in American law?

Got this from a first-year law student today. I’m going to turn comments and quotes off because I am going to respond in my own way and am not looking for advice. But I think people should see it.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

It’s possible we live in a country where 25-35% of the population thinks it’s good and just that masked armies are sent into blue cities to execute people who vote the wrong way

US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota

Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.

One court decision, two different headlines.

Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

Interested in learning about hornworts? Check out the on-line hornwort class
www.eaglehill.us/programs/sem...

Carney in Davos:

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

🧪Scientists from our Haselbach lab captured how proteins begin to fold as they’re being made.

Using cryo-EM, they visualised chaperones guiding nascent proteins on the ribosome: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67685-6

Beautiful work! Hopefully in the next few weeks we should have a paper out that might interest you

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A Marchantia gemmaling producing ectopic vegetative propagules

Happy to share the pre-print on GEMMIFER, a novel ERF required for the initiation of gemma in Marchantia. One of the coolest phenotypes that I have ever seen. Congratulations to Yuki and Go, who led this research. #PlantScience @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...