Evolutionary biologist at @SheffieldUni interested in genomics, rapid adaptation & lateral gene transfer in grasses. @NERCscience IRF
Luke Dunning
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What a nice surprise from @ahmedalenazi.bsky.social returning to work after the holidays!
We also have his final
PhD chapter now out - so all data chapters are now published.. amazing effort!
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
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Come and join us!!
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Awesome to see @cfcollins.bsky.social first paper out from her PhD - a huge amount of work!!
Regulatory features determine the evolutionary fate of laterally acquired genes in plants url: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Luke Dunning
Luke Dunning
🍃 Join @annbot.bsky.social Special Issue celebrating 60 years of discovery in C4 photosynthesis, edited by Rowan Sage & guest editors Marj Lundgren, Robert Sharwood & Luke Dunning. (1/4)
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Our work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Collins et al. combined expression, methylation, and genomic data to investigate long-term persistence of laterally acquired genes in the grass Alloteropsis, showing that those capable of regulating their own expression are more likely to persist.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag042
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Luke Dunning
Luke Dunning
Ecstatic to see the first chapter of my PhD published in MBE!
Most laterally acquired genes in plants are degenerating - the retained genes may to be more successful because they bring over their own regulatory machinery
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In many algae, photosynthesis is boosted by biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms, which pack the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco into liquid-like organelles called pyrenoids. Engineering C3 crops with a...
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