Adrien Burlacot

A genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals how diatoms thrive in dynamic light Diatoms are a highly diverse group of phytoplankton that have a large impact on global primary production and carbon sequestration in the ocean. However, they are evolutionarily divergent from model p...

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Amazing collaborative work with the Yeh lab @stanfordpress.bsky.social Attached image from @Sarah_Frail @carnegiescience.bsky.social

📣 📣 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 👀 but CEF 🫣

Excited to have been invited to the Annual Symposium of the Botanical Society of Japan 👀🦠🌱🌾🌿

So glad to have given a course on photosynthesis ☀️ last week at the @szndohrn.bsky.social , it's very humbling to see such a historical place for marine biology 👀🐠🐟🦠

Glad to see the recognition of Vincent Boudreau's amazing work 🥳🥳🥳 and to have taken part in the journey ☺️
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Part of the lab was at York last week for the CCM11 conference! Amazing science, wonderful people as always 🥰

Silly artwork alert 🚨from our favorite model organisms 🫣🙃 (work of Phaeodactylum photosynthesis in dynamic light to be released very soon btw 👀)

🚨 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

🎉🥳 Celebrating our publication revealing proteins bandwidths of importance with a Chlamy crêpe party 🥞
@carnegiescience.bsky.social @stanfordenergy.bsky.social Publication here👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It was a lot of fun to have @dstrenkert.bsky.social from @msudoeplantlab.bsky.social visit us and present her research on Ferredoxins last week 🥰 @carnegiescience.bsky.social

Energy trade-offs under fluctuating light govern bioenergetics and growth in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Rapidly changing light intensity is a natural challenge that photosynthetic organisms can tolerate. Regulatory mechanisms of light harvesting and alternative electron pathways are critical in dissipat...

Energy trade-offs under fluctuating light govern bioenergetics and growth in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cool to see today the work of @noodlyscientist.bsky.social featured at the @stanfordenergy.bsky.social symposium 👀 💚🦠
@carnegiescience.bsky.social

Sustaining the cell energy in dynamic environments requires photosynthetic electron flows with diverse bandwidths All living cells depend on the dynamic balance between their energy supply and demand to survive and thrive in dynamic environments. In extreme cases, like for photosynthetic organisms, their energy s...

📢Out today! Our work discovering that bioenergetic 🔋homeostasis in dynamic environments is periodicity-dependent ☀️🌥️🌤️⛅️🌦️☀️⛅️
We show that maintaining a healthy photosynthetic cell 💚requires mechanisms with diverse bandwidths of importance 👀
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👀 Sneak pick on our soon publicly available discovery that photosynthetic cells maintain bioenergetics homeostasis in a light periodicity-dependent manner⛅🌥️🌤️☀️ we reveal that each electron flow has their own bandwidth of physiological importance. Stay tuned👀

This week we did our annual retreat at the beautiful foghouse (without the fog 🥳). Glad to have such a great team ❤️ @carnegiescience.bsky.social

YouTube video by Algae People THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 9: Graham Peers -Oceans, Algae, and the Power of Simplicity

📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💚Graham Peers, Associate Professor @colorado.edu joins us to discuss his journey from oceanography to algal biology, exploring how microalgae, especially diatoms, use unique adaptations to perform photosynthesis.👇
youtu.be/4hh1Z0JV1FU

Super excited to be at the @apsphysics.bsky.social meeting this week 👀🥳 Looking forward to build connections at the frontier between biology and physics 👀
@carnegiescience.bsky.social

YouTube video by Algae People THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 8: Grey Monroe -Mastering Mutation for Resilient Agriculture

📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💚 , @grey-monroe.bsky.social, Assistant Professor @ucdavis.bsky.social joins us to discuss genetic adaptation to climate change and the convergence of DNA repair mechanisms in plants and animals.👇
youtu.be/k8nN508LQOk

From today at lunch: an onion Chlamydomonas-shaped 👀❤️🦠

Glad to have participated in this wonderful collaborative work where we describe the coolest symbiosis ever: Stentor-Chlorella👇

www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

YouTube video by Algae People THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 7: Mary Williams - Rooted in Science and Growing the Plant Community

On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💡💚 we invite
@plantteaching.bsky.social
, plant biologist, educator and features editor at
@theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social
to discuss their journey to build a strong and welcoming plant science community.👇
youtu.be/EXAoO9F6OTg

YouTube video by Algae People THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 6: Kadeem Gilbert - Decoding Plant-Microbe Dynamics for Sustainability

📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 📷 we invite Kadeem Gilbert, plant biologist and assistant professor at @michiganstatefb.bsky.social to talk about their journey into the dynamics of plant-microbe interactions.📷 👇
youtu.be/q7ASsLrKpTg

📢A new postdoctoral position is available at @carnegiescience
If you're excited about using large genome-phenotype relationships to unravel what makes CO2 fixation 🌱robust and efficient, check it out👇
jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/postdoc...

📢📣Are you a young scientist excited by sustainability, algae, and bioenergetics? We have a new opening for a junior research associate position to join our team👇
Please RT🤗
jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/junior-...

What a wonderful start of the year with the western photosynthesis conference at @fridayharbor.bsky.social 🥳🤩

YouTube video by Algae People THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 4: Megan Bontrager - Mapping Plant Geographic Futures

📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💚 we invite Megan Bontrager, evolutionary biologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto to talk about their journey into plant eco-evolutionary dynamics.👇
youtu.be/grQyb_QTyKc

@carnegiescience.bsky.social

This week we celebrated the end of the year with a Holiday Potluck, amazing food, wonderful people, great perspectives for the coming year 🤩

Interested in learning how people got started as plant scientists? My @carnegiescience.bsky.social colleague @aburlacot.bsky.social has done a series of interviews for The Green Light, with new episodes now coming out each week. Here’s episode 2.

YouTube video by Algae People THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 3: Seppe Kuehn - Unveiling Mysteries of Microbial Communities

📢A new episode of The Green Light 💚, on this Friday episode we invited @seppekuehnlab.bsky.social, a molecular plant biologist and associate professor at UChicago, to talk about their journey from physics to microbial communities assembly.👇
youtu.be/yi_qFOIyCGk