This is cool! "Plants and cyanobacteria use chlorophyll a for photosynthesis, but cyanobacteria in the Carlsbad caves use chlorophyll d and f, which can generate energy from near-infrared light." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Feel like the world is on fire and not sure how to get through it? Take some inspo from Cyanobacteria. 🦠 These 3.5 billion-year-old organisms have lived through literal hell-on-earth conditions and continue to persevere.

We are very happy to welcome Benjy Sedano @bencyano7.bsky.social , our new PhD student who will be working with some of our favorite cyanobacteria!

Several PhD opportunities are available to join my group, the Molecular Evolution Lab at QMUL! 🌴 If you’re interested in the origin and evolution of #photosynthesis or #cyanobacteria, or in applying #SynBio to photosynthetic enzymes, get in touch! cardonalab.uk/joinus Please share! Thank you.

Happy to see this out @NatComm We found that the unicellular coastal cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp uses sodium energetics rather than the typical proton energetics to fix N2. Sodium energetics likely is more widespread and affects the global nitrogen cycle. Congrats Si Tang #microsky t.co/A4lIVcK2V3