@JonikasLab

@mjonikas.bsky.social I'm a scientist studying enhanced photosynthetic CO2 assimilation! Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.

 Princeton, NJ
jonikaslab.princeton.edu/
Joined May 2015
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nature
@NatureMay 27
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) — a major funder of basic research — has restricted the flow of new research grants to a group of elite universities, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/4uMeoxS

Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold

Nature - US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other institutions.

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To all scientists immigrants: This is an amazing opportunity. The Vilcek family is super generous and has rewarded many immigrant scientists including Nobel Laureate @kkariko. Hope everyone eligible applies !
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We love to see everyone #StandUpForScience!
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Elizabeth Warren
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Donald Trump is handing our country over to a handful of billionaires.
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jared toettcher@toettch20 Feb 2025
Look folks: the US has completely ceased funding biomedical research. This is a catastrophe on so many levels: making new discoveries, supporting existing labs, training the next generation of scientists, US competitiveness... What are we doing? nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order

Nature - The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

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If you need a distraction on the Election Day, you can read our newest paper @MPlantPCom - we found that #hornwort #Rubisco is wicked!! Absolutely fun collaboration with @ZenOhZhenGuo @lau_gunn funded by @NSF @BTIscience @CornellCALS cell.com/molecular-plant/ful…

Unique biogenesis and kinetics of hornwort Rubiscos revealed by synthetic biology systems

Hornworts are non-vascular land plants, which diverged from vascular plants approximately 500 million years ago, yet the CO2 fixing enzyme (Rubisco) in hornworts has received little prior attention....

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Offering a prestigious 4-year Sainsbury PhD to work on Algal CO2-fixation. Open to all nationalities. Opportunity to co-design project on the dissection and synthetic assembly of efficient CO2-fixation. #SynBio #LLPS #Pyrenoid #Photosynthesis Please RT. findaphd.com/phds/project/fu…
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Postdoc available in assembling an in vitro synthetic CO2 fixing system to guide plant engineering. Join an international team engineering enhanced CO2 fixation. Please RT. #algae #LLPS #synbio @JonikasLab @McCormick_Lab @BiologyatYork jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post…
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A comprehensive atlas🗺️of the chloroplast! They convert sunlight🌞and CO₂ into starches🍞and oxygen. But how? The Jonikas lab provides the sharpest picture yet of what’s going on in chloroplasts in the journal Cell. molbio.princeton.edu/news/20…
(l-r) Weronika Patena, Senior Bioinformatics Analyst; Lianyong Wang, Associate Research Scholar; and Martin Jonikas, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at the imaging system they and their collaborators used to find novel punctate structures in the chloroplast.

ALT (l-r) Weronika Patena, Senior Bioinformatics Analyst; Lianyong Wang, Associate Research Scholar; and Martin Jonikas, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at the imaging system they and their collaborators used to find novel punctate structures in the chloroplast.

Martin Jonikas@JonikasLab11 Jul 2023
Now published online! A Chloroplast Protein Atlas Reveals Punctate Structures and Spatial Organization of Biosynthetic Pathways cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092… Congratulations, @LianyongW, Weronika Patena, @clairemcwhite, @VinhTTon, Jianping Hu, @onishilab, and team!
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Thrilled to share my insights in this recent @Forbes article discussing farms of the future! Thanks to Juergen Eckhardt and @KiraPeikoff @LeapsByBayer for writing the story forbes.com/sites/juergeneckh…
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The Plant Cell@ThePlantCell5 Jun 2023
The pyrenoid: the eukaryotic CO2-concentrating organelle (Shan He, Victoria L Crans, Martin C Jonikas) academic.oup.com/plcell/adva… @ASPB #PlantSci #pyrenoid #photosynthesis #CO2ConcentratingMechanism #phaseseparation #liquidlikeOrganelle #eukaryoticalgae #hornworts #Chlamydomonas
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Replying to @Matteo_Pivato @JonikasLab
Was a Great talk and neat strategy!
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My new work with collaborators Ned Wingreen, @JonikasLab, and others is out now! We study a unique way in which disordered proteins of macromolecules can affect phase separation via an interplay of linker length and other intrinsic molecular lengths. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Effects of linker length on phase separation: lessons from the Rubisco-EPYC1 system of the algal...

Biomolecular condensates are membraneless organelles formed via phase separation of macromolecules, typically consisting of bond-forming “stickers” connected by flexible “linkers”. Linkers have...

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Hearty congratulations to our own John Brooks, Assistant Professor of @PrincetonMolBio , on being selected as an @Hypothesisfund Grantee! "Nimble funding for nimble minds."
Hypothesis Fund@Hypothesisfund18 Jan 2023
How does the circadian clock ⏰ influence the structure and function of the gut microbiome? Grantee John F. Brooks II hypothesizes that antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) play an important role. 🎉 Congrats Dr. Brooks! @Princeton 🙏 #HFScout @ctmurphy1 hypothesisfund.org/portfolio
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The Chlamy2023 registration is now open! Register by March 15 to save $$! chlamy2023.princeton.edu Please RT!
Chlamy Meeting@ChlamyMeeting6 May 2022
Save the date! The Chlamy2023 meeting will be held June 4-9, 2023, in Princeton, NJ, USA. chlamy2023.princeton.edu/ Please RT! Below: a Chlamy QFDEEM image from Robyn Roth and Ursula Goodenough!
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Luke Mackinder@mackinderlab2 Oct 2022
The Labs first diatom paper where we have developed a method to scarlessly insert GFP into the genome to tag proteins whilst maintaining native regulation. Enabled by a rapid Golden Gate episome delivery framework. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Great work @OnyouNam and Irina.@MLDiatoms
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MrLev67@LevsArt13 Aug 2022
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I will be offering a PhD position in this call! Come and join us at the @gmivienna ! I will do my best to make sure you can have a productive but fun PhD experience 🤗
Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training@TrainingVbc29 Jul 2022
The @viennabiocenter PhD Program Autumn call opens 1 Sept. 25 fully-funded positions in the Molecular Biosciences for motivated young researchers in the life sciences. Please RT! ow.ly/lyjv50I5PBn @IMPvienna @IMBA_Vienna @gmivienna @MaxPerutzLabs @univienna @MedUni_Wien
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Phytozome@phytozome17 Jun 2022
A new assembly and annotation of the model green alga 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘺𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘵𝘪𝘪 CC-4532 is now available at phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/info/C… @Merchant_Lab @QB3Berkeley @IbpcF @LBNLBioSci @jgi
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Jiawen Chen@Jiaaawen5 Mar 2021
Check out our review on the progress of starch modification in Arabidopsis and crops! Huge thanks to @ScientistErica and my supervisor David Seung :) (Particularly fond of table 1 with lovely starch shape traces made by Erica)
Dr Erica Hawkins 🌱🔬🏳️‍🌈@ScientistErica5 Mar 2021
Me and @Jiaaawen helped write a review article all about starch!: Towards targeted starch modification in plants sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Hope you all enjoy! We enjoyed writing it :) #academicchatter #plantsci
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