Laura Gunn

STARS in our pockets! Check out our shiniest research to date!

The identities of the reviewers remain anonymous at their request

Happy Rat dck day, for all of those who observe.
May your testtomcels be robust, and your JAK to JAK conversions abundant ❤️

Plant scientists Professor Graham Farquhar and Professor Susanne von Caemmerer transformed the world's understanding of photosynthesis, and now they have been jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) from The Royal Society, at a ceremony in London.

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Incredibly honored to receive support from the Hypothesis Fund!

"I apologize I cannot help with the review of this paper, this is a very busy period"

Effects of chaperone selectivity on the assembly of plant Rubisco orthologs in E. coli We used an E. coli system to examine recognition of plant Rubisco chaperones for different Rubiscos. Identified factors influencing chaperone selectivity e

Further advanced in synbio systems for expression of plant rubiscos in E. coli, exploring importance of Raf1 variants:
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and accompanying perspective via @jxbotany.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

While we don't know how to assemble Griffithsia Rubisco yet, this expansion in SynBio capabilities (from Archer and friends) are very exciting - the high throughput engineering capabilities that they enable definitely bring us substantially closer to engineering higher specificity Rubisco.

A SynBio explosion: a whole new world for Rubisco engineering This article comments on:Archer J, Kathpalia M, Lee B, Li S, Wang T. 2025. Effects of chaperone selectivity on the assembly of plant Rubisco orthologs in E

SynBio: it’s what plants crave
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J Exp Bot Insights article from *Dan Hong Loh* - she discusses the impacts of Rubisco SynBio tool expansions from Archer et al. 2025 (doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...).

Feeling perceived 🤌

New Editorial: "Rethinking field trials" rdcu.be/enhFe

All the books I ordered last week just arrived! Can't wait to pour myself a drink, relax, be too tired to read and play around on my phone all night

Get in on this, Maddie @mceminsky.bsky.social

Okay hear me out, what if building your protein model was a first person horror survival experience??

#MolecularNodes #b3d #GeometryNodes 🧪

That is more accurate than I can express. We will be dropping structure later this year with 4-way cysteine bonds, and this is the vibe.

Boom baby!

tbt this classic (one of these days moon...):

Nice shout-out for @laura-gunn.bsky.social and @fernway.bsky.social

Have you asked Ed Cobb?

Unique biogenesis and kinetics of hornwort Rubiscos revealed by synthetic biology systems Hornworts are non-vascular land plants, which diverged from vascular plants approximately 500 million years ago, yet the CO2 fixing enzyme (Rubisco) in hornworts has received little prior attention. This study develops the synthetic biology system to heterologously express hornwort Rubiscos and demonstrates that hornwort Rubiscos have different biogenesis dependencies. Further analyses of the kinetics of hornwort Rubiscos show that Rubiscos are indeed phylogenetically constrained.

Check out our hornwort Rubisco kinetics:
a) what catalytic tradeoff?
b) almost double the kcat by removing a chaperone
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Strong publication for Zhen Guo (Zen) Oh!

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