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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · 22d

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Amazing collaborative work with the Yeh lab @stanfordpress.bsky.social Attached image from @Sarah_Frail @carnegiescience.bsky.social

A genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals how diatoms thrive in dynamic light

Diatoms are a highly diverse group of phytoplankton that have a large impact on global primary production and carbon sequestration in the ocean. However, they are evolutionarily divergent from model p...

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · 22d

📣 📣 Wondering what allow diatoms to grow in the ever-changing environment 🌦️of the ocean🌊?
Check out or latest work where we develop genome-wide CRISPR screen to unravel the genes🧬 critical for diatoms under dynamic light conditions☀️🌥️👇
Spoiler alert: it is (almost) not about NPQ 👀 but CEF 🫣

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · 22d

Excited to have been invited to the Annual Symposium of the Botanical Society of Japan 👀🦠🌱🌾🌿

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · 23d

So glad to have given a course on photosynthesis ☀️ last week at the @szndohrn.bsky.social , it's very humbling to see such a historical place for marine biology 👀🐠🐟🦠

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · 29d

Glad to see the recognition of Vincent Boudreau's amazing work 🥳🥳🥳 and to have taken part in the journey ☺️
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ASCB and MBoC Announce 2025 Paper of the Year Award Winners - ASCB

ASCB and its research journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), are proud to recognize the outstanding scientific achievements of early career researchers through the 2025 Paper of the Year Award...

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Aug 26

Part of the lab was at York last week for the CCM11 conference! Amazing science, wonderful people as always 🥰

Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Aug 10

Silly artwork alert 🚨from our favorite model organisms 🫣🙃 (work of Phaeodactylum photosynthesis in dynamic light to be released very soon btw 👀)

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Aug 10

🚨 We’re hiring! The Burlacot Lab @carnegiescience.bsky.social is recruiting a Postdoc to study how photosynthetic electron flows power CO₂ fixation in algae 🌱🧫

Cutting-edge microscopy + biophysics + sustainability 🚀

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/171656

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · May 29

🎉🥳 Celebrating our publication revealing proteins bandwidths of importance with a Chlamy crêpe party 🥞
@carnegiescience.bsky.social @stanfordenergy.bsky.social Publication here👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · May 28

It was a lot of fun to have @dstrenkert.bsky.social from @msudoeplantlab.bsky.social visit us and present her research on Ferredoxins last week 🥰 @carnegiescience.bsky.social

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Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social · May 23

Energy trade-offs under fluctuating light govern bioenergetics and growth in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Energy trade-offs under fluctuating light govern bioenergetics and growth in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Rapidly changing light intensity is a natural challenge that photosynthetic organisms can tolerate. Regulatory mechanisms of light harvesting and alternative electron pathways are critical in dissipat...

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · May 23

Cool to see today the work of @noodlyscientist.bsky.social featured at the @stanfordenergy.bsky.social symposium 👀 💚🦠
@carnegiescience.bsky.social

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · May 20

📢Out today! Our work discovering that bioenergetic 🔋homeostasis in dynamic environments is periodicity-dependent ☀️🌥️🌤️⛅️🌦️☀️⛅️
We show that maintaining a healthy photosynthetic cell 💚requires mechanisms with diverse bandwidths of importance 👀
👇
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Sustaining the cell energy in dynamic environments requires photosynthetic electron flows with diverse bandwidths

All living cells depend on the dynamic balance between their energy supply and demand to survive and thrive in dynamic environments. In extreme cases, like for photosynthetic organisms, their energy s...

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · May 17

👀 Sneak pick on our soon publicly available discovery that photosynthetic cells maintain bioenergetics homeostasis in a light periodicity-dependent manner⛅🌥️🌤️☀️ we reveal that each electron flow has their own bandwidth of physiological importance. Stay tuned👀

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Apr 26

This week we did our annual retreat at the beautiful foghouse (without the fog 🥳). Glad to have such a great team ❤️ @carnegiescience.bsky.social

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Mar 21

📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💚Graham Peers, Associate Professor @colorado.edu joins us to discuss his journey from oceanography to algal biology, exploring how microalgae, especially diatoms, use unique adaptations to perform photosynthesis.👇
youtu.be/4hh1Z0JV1FU

THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 9: Graham Peers -Oceans, Algae, and the Power of Simplicity

YouTube video by Algae People

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Mar 17

Super excited to be at the @apsphysics.bsky.social meeting this week 👀🥳 Looking forward to build connections at the frontier between biology and physics 👀
@carnegiescience.bsky.social

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Mar 1

📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💚 , @grey-monroe.bsky.social, Assistant Professor @ucdavis.bsky.social joins us to discuss genetic adaptation to climate change and the convergence of DNA repair mechanisms in plants and animals.👇
youtu.be/k8nN508LQOk

THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 8: Grey Monroe -Mastering Mutation for Resilient Agriculture

YouTube video by Algae People

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Feb 27

From today at lunch: an onion Chlamydomonas-shaped 👀❤️🦠

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Feb 18

Glad to have participated in this wonderful collaborative work where we describe the coolest symbiosis ever: Stentor-Chlorella👇

www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Jan 31

On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💡💚 we invite
@plantteaching.bsky.social
, plant biologist, educator and features editor at
@theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social
to discuss their journey to build a strong and welcoming plant science community.👇
youtu.be/EXAoO9F6OTg

THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 7: Mary Williams - Rooted in Science and Growing the Plant Community

YouTube video by Algae People

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Jan 17

📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 📷 we invite Kadeem Gilbert, plant biologist and assistant professor at @michiganstatefb.bsky.social to talk about their journey into the dynamics of plant-microbe interactions.📷 👇
youtu.be/q7ASsLrKpTg

THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 6: Kadeem Gilbert - Decoding Plant-Microbe Dynamics for Sustainability

YouTube video by Algae People

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Jan 17

📢A new postdoctoral position is available at @carnegiescience
If you're excited about using large genome-phenotype relationships to unravel what makes CO2 fixation 🌱robust and efficient, check it out👇
jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate Bioinformatics | Carnegie Science Careers

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Jan 15

📢📣Are you a young scientist excited by sustainability, algae, and bioenergetics? We have a new opening for a junior research associate position to join our team👇
Please RT🤗
jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/junior-...

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Adrien Burlacot @aburlacot.bsky.social · Jan 5

What a wonderful start of the year with the western photosynthesis conference at @fridayharbor.bsky.social 🥳🤩

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