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Improving Rubisco for sustainable crop production at Gatsby Charitable Foundation on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Improving Rubisco for sustainable crop production at Gatsby Charitable Foundation, listed on FindAPhD.com

Another #PhD project available for applications in #photosynthesis with @ecarmosilva.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social looking at ways to improve Rubisco. Details below including how the successful nominee will play a direct role in shaping the project proposal tinyurl.com/2a8szv3y

A miniature CRISPR–Cas10 enzyme confers immunity by inhibitory signalling - Nature Panoptes, an anti-phage defence system against virus-mediated immune suppression, is revealed.

Today in @nature.com , we highlight how a cousin of CRISPR-Cas10, mCpol, establishes an evolutionary trap in anti-phage immune systems.

Check out @erinedoherty.bsky.social and my work from @doudna-lab.bsky.social lab here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leaflet-specific phospholipid imaging using genetically encoded proximity sensors - Nature Chemical Biology An approach combining bioorthogonal chemistry with genetically encoded fluorogen-activating proteins enables subcellular imaging of phospholipids and glycans, as well as the visualization of lipid tra...

Very excited to share new work out today in @natchembio.nature.com on a new approach - FACES - for selectively imaging of phospholipids and other biomolecules at spatial resolutions down to individual membrane leaflets (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Paper Alert! “The diversity of PET-degrading enzymes: A review”. We present a database of PET-plastic hydrolases, including sequence, structure, and function. From this, we discuss the distribution, efficiency, stability, and potential for biodegradation of PETases.

Sort of a recapitulation

We move in two weeks 😱

Congrats!! 🪰

I am thrilled to announce that I just opened my lab at New York University in @nyucns.bsky.social and Biology! Our work will explore the richness of animal behavior, dissecting the genetic and circuit mechanisms that shape its evolution.

We are hiring! The #PlantBio department at UIUC is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Plant-Fungal interactions. Application deadline is October 31st @dallingjim.bsky.social see the link below for more details:
illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Applications are invited for our Independent Research Fellowship scheme to support early career scientists in establishing their own research groups. The deadline is 24 October 2025 and further details of how to apply are here: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind...

Polyphyodont - Wikipedia

I think we should also consider the degree of our deciduous teething, the polyphyodonts have some advantages but so do the monophyodonts...
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Professor Susanne von Caemmerer FRS and Professor Graham Douglas Farquhar FRS are jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) 2025 for refining the ways we monitor and model photosynthesis in leaves from molecular to global scales. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/royal-medals/

Divergent viral phosphodiesterases for immune signaling evasion Cyclic dinucleotides (CDNs) and other short oligonucleotides play fundamental roles in immune system activation in organisms ranging from bacteria to humans. In response, viruses use phosphodiesterase...

Excited to share our new preprint co-led by @jnoms.bsky.social!

Here we reveal an exceptional diversity of viral 2H phosphodiesterases (PDEs) that enable immune evasion by selectively degrading oligonucleotide-based messengers. This 2H PDE fold has evolved striking substrate breath & specificity.

!!! Yes!

I love this diagram

The first paper from my PhD is out now! doi.org/10.1111/jeu....

We describe a new photosynthetic #Paulinella species from a brackish beach in British Columbia 🇨🇦

Big thanks to the co-authors Maia Palka and @alive-in-the-ocean.bsky.social, and my supervisor @fburki.bsky.social

#protistsonsky

You can't let those macroeconomic headwinds tell you how to live your life

I'm still waiting for the John Henry moment for lab robotics

🚨 We’re hiring! The Burlacot Lab @carnegiescience.bsky.social is recruiting a Postdoc to study how photosynthetic electron flows power CO₂ fixation in algae 🌱🧫

Cutting-edge microscopy + biophysics + sustainability 🚀

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/171656

Postdoctoral Fellow, Hattie Chung Lab (Yale School of Medicine) Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!

Our lab at Yale @yalemedicine.bsky.social seeks #postdocs with in vivo expertise to pioneer research at the intersection of tissue remodeling & aging. Work with us to uncover immunological & vascular drivers of ovarian aging, applying single-cell, spatial omics, and ML! jobrxiv.org/job/yale-uni...

Structures of Naked Mole-Rat, Tuco-Tuco, and Guinea Pig Ribosomes: Is rRNA Fragmentation Linked to Translational Fidelity? Ribosomes are central to protein synthesis in all organisms. Among mammals, the ribosome functional core is highly conserved. Remarkably, two rodent species, the naked mole-rat (NMR) and tuco-tuco dis...

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Congrats to our savage lab undergrads on their research and presentations in our inaugural undergrad research symposium 🎉🥳

Honored to be among this amazing group and be recognized for the early career research award in memory of Günter Blobel

New from our lab in @narjournal.bsky.social:
We dissect the folding dynamics of a fundamental element of RNA secondary structure—a stem-loop—at single-molecule and microsecond resolution.
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Recently rewatched it, definitely holds up!

Way more politics than in the movie but it was great! Good example where the movie and book are both really good and don't meaningfully spoil one another.

Using a protease to activate a proenzyme nuclease is just a very sensible strategy, eukaryotes and prokaryotes can all agree!

Untangling phage immunity systems can be really challenging but @owentuck.bsky.social and team used phylogeny and biochemistry beautifully to show how a pair of genes got repurposed as a component in multiple defence systems.

My understanding is that it was higher than that, closer to 14%, where did you get this number?

Revisiting Trade-offs between Rubisco Kinetic Parameters Rubisco is the primary carboxylase of the Calvin cycle, the most abundant enzyme in the biosphere, and one of the best-characterized enzymes. On the basis of correlations between Rubisco kinetic param...

@flamholz.bsky.social and I have this paper attempting to understand the tradeoffs in carbon fixation by rubisco. Tl;dr: "not extremely clear cut"

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