Great carboxysome review from @botbml.bsky.social and team!

Understanding carboxysomes to enhance carbon fixation in crops portlandpress.com/biochemsoctr...

📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: The 11th International Symposium on Inorganic Carbon Utilization by Aquatic Photosynthetic Organisms (CCM11) 👉 buff.ly/jWqcD6B \ #PlantScience

Join us in Denmark for a great meeting!

Come join us as a postdoc! We have an open position in biochemistry of cyanobacterial CO2 fixation focusing on regulation of carboxysome function! Please help me spread the word and welcome to apply! www.blikstadlab.org/open-positio...

VACANCY - Would you like to study photosynthetic water oxidation during your PhD?🧪 Join Johannes Messinger's group @umeaplantsciencecentre.se & @umeauniversitet.bsky.social and work on a project bridging biophysics and molecular biology! Read more here👇: www.umu.se/en/work-with... #PlantSciJobs

Happy to announce the 2025 Tiselius symposium in Uppsala, August 28. Excellent line up of speakers including Lori Passmore @lapassmore.bsky.social, Katja Luck @katjaluck.bsky.social, Markku Varjosalo @varjosal.bsky.social and Arne Elofsson. No fee & short talk slots available tiseliussymposium.org

Just over a week left to apply for a 3yr postdoc with me at Lancaster @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social looking at Rubisco engineering in vitro and in vivo to improve plant #photosynthesis #plantscijobs wp.lancs.ac.uk/lancsphotosy...

New structural insights into SBPase from #Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. This study reveals how #redox state influences the enzyme’s oligomeric form and offers clues to its regulation in the Calvin cycle. buff.ly/qfy40Ii

Guillaume from our group has been on the #CCPEM symposium. Check out his highlight and reflections here!

Looking for a #postdoc position? Come work with us on CO2 fixation in #cyanobacteria using #biochemistry and #CryoEM! 🦠 🧪 🧫 ❄️🔬 We are a friendly group. 🙂 https://www.blikstadlab.org/open-positions.html #job #postdoc

Come join us as a postdoc! We have an open position in biochemistry of cyanobacterial CO2 fixation focusing on regulation of carboxysome function! Please help me spread the word and welcome to apply! www.blikstadlab.org/open-positio...

Three year *Plant Molecular Physiologist postdoc* w/ Doug Orr in Lancaster on Rubisco engineering and biochemistry as part of a BBSRC project looking at novel approaches to improving Rubisco activity, in collaboration w/ Martin Cann at Durham. Please share 🧪 🌱 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

New paper from the Vecchiarelli Lab! 🧵 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... In collaboration with Lu-Ning Liu lab. Congratulations to first author Claudia Mak! @claudiamak.bsky.social P.S. Claudia is looking for postdocs in protein biochemistry! Pls ReSkeet

Excited to share that I'll soon be recruiting a 3 year postdoc to join the lab @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social to work with me on Rubisco biochemistry and engineering. Official advertising details to be released very soon, watch this space! Please spread the word. 😀🌱🧪🥼

Excited to share our latest publication: Blue-light perception via phototropin controls carbon metabolism in the green microalga Chlamydomonas by regulating starch accumulation. Check it out here! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reminder: We have a Bluesky Starter Pack of researchers working in cyanobacteria. If you would like to be included, respond to this message. Please repost to spread the news.

CyanoTag: Discovery of protein function facilitated by high-throughput endogenous tagging in a photosynthetic prokaryote | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

CyanoTag: Discovery of protein function facilitated by high-throughput endogenous tagging in a photosynthetic prokaryote | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

PhD position available! We are seeking a motivated and driven PhD student for a 4-year position. The project will focus on blue light signaling in Chlamydomonas. Full job advert and application process at: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/.... Please submit your application by 28 February.

New research from IGI Investigator Dave Savage and first author Noam Prywes details the landscape of possible Rubisco variants, suggesting ways to make the world's most abundant enzyme better at its job. 🌱 Read more: ow.ly/t2JO50ULh10

What limits rubisco function? Is it the chemical mechanism? Evolution? In this paper, @prywes.bsky.social et. al explore this question by assaying >99% of single amino acid mutants in Form II rubisco (1/7) doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Given that there are more and more newcomers from science to Bluesky, we remind you we have a starteer pack for those interested in cyanobacteriology: go.bsky.app/BBgq3df If you would like to be added, please let us know.

Last week to apply for this position in my group!

Check out our hornwort Rubisco kinetics: a) what catalytic tradeoff? b) almost double the kcat by removing a chaperone www.cell.com/molecular-pl... Strong publication for Zhen Guo (Zen) Oh!

Last chance to apply for this exciting position in my group 😉

One week left to apply to this position in my group.

Long time lurker, first time poster... announcing our latest preprint on encapsulin protein cages! We can now assemble them beautifully in vitro, without the ugly defects you get using acid/base or denaturants. This lets us put any synthetic cargo into these cages. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Can highly recommend this opportunity!

My favorite work yet! And, it came out on my birthday! Even in grad school, I knew encapsulation peptides were underappreciated. I’m thrilled to have helped give these misunderstood domains a deeper look.

Here are a couple of people who most on CO2 concentrating mechanisms in plants that are good to follow

I certainly am! This is definitely going to be my go to for CA analysis... although I'm also tempted to leave it to the experts and collaborate with the amazing @cblikstad.bsky.social !

Interested in carboxysomes and/or carbonic anhydrases? Here is our detailed method for purifying carboxysomes and using stopped-flow to measure kinetics on the carbon anhydrases they encapsulate. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Nicely put together by PhD student Nikole! /1

Love this CA primer from @cblikstad.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/bs.m...