🚨Preprint! Happy to share the research from my PhD “Genome delivery of a contractile tailed phage and its superinfection exclusion mechanism”. We use cryoEM to study the genome ejection of the phage T4, revealing how the tape measure protein regulates the process.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Thanks Ben!
Thanks Sam ❤️ By funny coincidence I am actually at USU today and was thinking of you. Hope you are well!
Do you like it when weird organisms do silly things?? Then you're going to love this!
🚨New paper: We found - contrary to expectations - that oxygen is partially excluded from biomolecular condensates.
We find a strong anti-correlation between oxygen and protein concentrations in the condensate showing that accessible volume dominates over polarity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
-Melville
I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.
Organ-specific expression of phosphate transporter, proton pump, and phosphatase genes in Marchantia polymorpha.
Rhizoids function as nutrient uptake organs in a non-vascular land plant
Kanno et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Plastomes of Anemiaceae with (Anemia hirsuta, outer plastome) or without (A. labiakii, inner plastome) a large insertion between the trnV-UGC and ndhC genes, where the Mobile Open Reading Frames in Fern Organelles cluster is located.
Evolutionary mobility and genetic dynamics of MORFFO genes: shuttling among ancient plant lineages
Labiak et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If fear is the mind killer, then comfort is the soul killer.
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List of papers you promised yourself you'd read on the plane but deep down know that you wont?
Not even "NGS verified" plasmids from twist... don't ask me how I know
How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?
Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
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Great fun working with Manajit Hayer-Hartl and her amazing team at @mpibiochem.bsky.social bringing this work on the beta-carboxyome protein ApN (CcmN) together.
Look at this 🙂 #CryoEM
Structural basis for CTCF-mediated chromatin organization by @lucas.farnunglab.com @voslab.org
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Functional characterisation of bicarbonate transporters from the cyanobacterial SbtA2 family and subsequent expression in tobacco academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social
SAGA1 and SAGA2 localize the starch sheath to the pyrenoid in Chlamydomonas reinhardti
@mjonikas.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
How does molecular valency shape condensate assembly and function? We used the CO2-fixing organelle in algae—the pyrenoid—to find out… 🧵
Preprint here!:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@cellarchlab.com @phaips.vd.st @biologyatyork.bsky.social
#Rubisco #PhaseSeparation #Condensates #Pyrenoid
Next week we will have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Tanner Robison. Tanner will be talking about carbon concentrating mechanisms and hornwort pyrenoids !
@btiscience.bsky.social @ulaval.ca @ulaval.ca
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sticker number modulates pyrenoid condensate assembly to support algal fitness
Looking forward to reading this! @james-r-barrett.bsky.social @phaips.vd.st ps.vd.st
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Having fun with the microscope lately. Here’s one of my favourite artsy and slightly psychedelic shots of #Marchantia chloroplasts and a fluorescent membrane reporter. (z-stack maximum projection)
The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
From my go-to bikepacking website where I've never read anything remotely political. That's where we're at now bikepacking.com/news/alex-pr...
I know I'm a 1L and can't really claim to know what the Constitution means. But I have to say that I am so incredibly demoralized and angry over what has been happening in Minnesota, to say nothing of all the other horrible things ICE has been doing all over for months (and probably longer than l'm aware of) plus this administration's actions on, well, nearly everything. But the two most recent killings and the administration's response has left me wondering what the hell we are studying the law for? Is justice really so fragile, so easily ignored in American law?
Got this from a first-year law student today. I’m going to turn comments and quotes off because I am going to respond in my own way and am not looking for advice. But I think people should see it.
Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
It’s possible we live in a country where 25-35% of the population thinks it’s good and just that masked armies are sent into blue cities to execute people who vote the wrong way
US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota
Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.
One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Interested in learning about hornworts? Check out the on-line hornwort class
www.eaglehill.us/programs/sem...
