Chlamy never ceases to surprise me! Our new preprint tracks dim-day acclimated Chlamy populations as they face sudden bright days. See how the alga bounces back from severe photodamage and a weird empty stroma phenotype to divide successfully by nightfall. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New preprint! Check out how we are approaching dual-proteomics of two very different symbiotic microbes at once, no fancy tools necessary. @merchant-lab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Postdoctoral researcher @sunnyjoydupuis.bsky.social, PhD '25 Microbiology, writes about the Merchant Lab and @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social scientists peeking in on algae at night to discover how the organisms prepare for another stressful day on the job.

Check out this piece I wrote with @qb3.bsky.social’s awesome science communication team *highlighting* (pun intended) recent work in @theplantcell.bsky.social by Valle Ojeda and yours truly! 🌱🦠🔬

Our large-scale biology article is out in @theplantcell.bsky.social! Dig into these rich datasets to see how light-induced stress not only impacts what algae do during the day, but also how it shapes their physiology and gene expression at night. doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Too dim, too bright, and just right: Systems analysis of the Chlamydomonas diurnal program under limiting and excess light pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40251989/