María Santos-Merino

Stunning!

We are pleased to announce that we will organize the next Nordic Photosynthesis Congress and the Nordic Algae Symposium in #Turku, Finland in 2027! 🇫🇮

Nice article explaining my latest first author publication for a general audience! natsci.msu.edu/news/2025/20...

Thanks Nick! I hope that you are doing well!

Thank you to all the authors, Yagut (@yagut.bsky.social), Lauri (@laurinikkanen.bsky.social), Manos and, especially to Danny

Plastoquinone redox status influences carboxysome integrity via a RpaA‐ and reactive oxygen species‐dependent regulatory network We identified a dramatic remodeling of carboxysomes under conditions that lead to overreduction of the plastoquinone pool of the photosynthetic electron transport chain. This overreduction was accomp...

I am so thrilled to share our new publication. We found that carboxysome losses integrity in response to ROS and PQ pool overreduction. RpaA seems to have an important role in controlling the organization of carboxysomes. For more details, here is the link:

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Thanks Anthony!

Mutations in the circadian cycle drive adaptive plasticity in cyanobacteria | PNAS Circadian clocks allow organisms to anticipate daily fluctuations in light and temperature, but how this anticipatory role promotes adaptation to d...

So happy to see this publication finally out! Congratulations and
thank you to all the authors!

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Mutations in the circadian cycle drive adaptive plasticity in cyanobacteria | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Engineering quorum-sensing circuits in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 towards self-inducible systems. Despite significant potential for cyanobacteria as sustainable bioproduction chases, there are limited examples of scaled cyanobacterial bioproduction…

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Engineering quorum-sensing circuits in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 towards self-inducible systems. Despite significant potential for cyanobacteria as sustainable bioproduction chases, there are limited examples of scaled cyanobacterial bioproduction…

Happy to this story finally published! Happy to a be a part of it!
Congratulations to all the authors!

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HIGH CO2 LEVELS OVERCOME THE NIGHTTIME LETHALITY OF CIRCADIAN MUTANTS IN CYANOBACTERIA Cyanobacteria have adapted to daily fluctuations in light intensity through a circadian clock that aligns their physiology and metabolism to the external daytime. In the model cyanobacterium Synechoco...

So happy to share our new preprint for a collaborative effort! Congratulations to all the authors!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you Nick! Everything is going pretty well in Michigan. I hope that everything is going well for you too!

We are organizing the International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries in Turku Finland 2–4 June 2025 rrbconference.com. Abstract submission for oral presentations is open until 31.01.2025. Dedicated sessions on
BioFoundry & Syntheitic Biology, Algal Biorefineries, Biocatalysis, ...

Autoinduction expression systems by AHL-mediated quorum-sensing circuits in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 Despite significant potential for cyanobacteria as sustainable bioproduction chases, there are limited examples of scaled cyanobacterial bioproduction. In part, this is because most cyanobacterial spe...

So happy to share the latest preprint from Ducat lab. Happy to be part of it!

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Plastoquinone redox status influences carboxysome integrity via a RpaA- and ROS-dependent regulatory network Carboxysomes are bacterial microcompartments that encapsulate Rubisco and are a core component of the cyanobacterial carbon concentration mechanism (CCM). While carboxysome number, size and spatial or...

I am so happy to share the preprint of my latest research project. Great collaboration with @yagut.bsky.social and @laurinikkanen.bsky.social

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