Newest preprint from our lab: a new family of promising synthetic CO2 fixation cycles that may outcompete the Calvin cycle and that Vittorio Rainaldi realized to a great extent in E. coli! Up to 11 heterologous enzymes in a cascade supporting CO2 fixation & growth! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Very excited to finally share my PhD paper, about advancing #chloroplast #synbio through high-throughput plastome engineering of #Chlamydomonas.
Huge thanks to the whole team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please check out our improved #preprint:
CRISPR/Cas9 targeted genetic screening in Physcomitrella identifies novel cell division genes
Thank you, Elena Kozgunova for taking the lead.
#Physcomitrella #celldivision
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Although plants share core cell division mechanisms with other eukaryotes, their unique features, such as acentrosomal spindle formation and cytokinesis via the phragmoplast, suggest the existence of ...
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Biological carbon fixation is currently limited to seven naturally occurring pathways. Synthetic carbon fixation pathways have the potential to surpass aerobic natural pathways in efficiency, but none...
This study reports a modular-cloning-based platform for high-throughput chloroplast engineering in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that allows large-scale characterization of genetic parts and prototyping o...
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Nico Claassens
Ralf Reski
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology 🌱🧪
René Inckemann
Cool Preprint led by @mirbachh on comparing machine learning based engineering of a synthetic C1 fixation pathway vs the classic ALE based approach. ML allowed way faster pathway establishment and when combined with the evolved background improved growth by a factor of 3.🔥🎉
Turbo platform for plant research 🚀🪴
Extreme weather events due to #climatechange reduce crop yields. @reneinckemann.bsky.social & team led by Tobias Erb @synmikro.bsky.social has now developed a microalgae platform for fast and efficient tests of chloroplast gene variants s.gwdg.de/hznfNe
New preprint from our group! When we first started working with affordable, continuous-culture mini-bioreactors a few years ago, we realized they offered a unique solution for CRISPRi experiments, which rely on cell growth to dilute targeted proteins.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Multi-lab, Multi-enzyme Study Demonstrates the Versatility of Bacterial Microcompartment Shells as a Modular Platform for Confined Biocatalysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.18.712704v1
