María Santos-Merino
@cyanomaria.bsky.social
Molecular Biology and Biomedicine PhD Spanish 🇪🇸 researcher🔬 Cyanobacteria lover! ♻️ Postdoc at Ducat Lab - MSU 🇺🇸
Reposted by María Santos-Merino
We are pleased to announce that we will organize the next Nordic Photosynthesis Congress and the Nordic Algae Symposium in #Turku, Finland in 2027! 🇫🇮
October 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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...
MSU scientists discover regulatory pathway behind cyanobacteria’s carbon-fixing factories
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October 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Nice article explaining my latest first author publication for a general audience! natsci.msu.edu/news/2025/20...
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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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...
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September 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
So happy to see this publication finally out! Congratulations and
thank you to all the authors!
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thank you to all the authors!
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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...
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September 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
So happy to see this publication finally out! Congratulations and
thank you to all the authors!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
thank you to all the authors!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by María Santos-Merino
Mutations in the circadian cycle drive adaptive plasticity in cyanobacteria | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Mutations in the circadian cycle drive adaptive plasticity in cyanobacteria | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by María Santos-Merino
Engineering quorum-sensing circuits in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 towards self-inducible systems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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July 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Engineering quorum-sensing circuits in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 towards self-inducible systems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Happy to this story finally published! Happy to a be a part of it!
Congratulations to all the authors!
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Congratulations to all the authors!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Happy to this story finally published! Happy to a be a part of it!
Congratulations to all the authors!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations to all the authors!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
So happy to share our new preprint for a collaborative effort! Congratulations to all the authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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...
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June 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
So happy to share our new preprint for a collaborative effort! Congratulations to all the authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Reposted by María Santos-Merino
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, ...
BioFoundry & Syntheitic Biology, Algal Biorefineries, Biocatalysis, ...
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January 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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, ...
BioFoundry & Syntheitic Biology, Algal Biorefineries, Biocatalysis, ...
So happy to share the latest preprint from Ducat lab. Happy to be part of it!
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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...
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April 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
So happy to share the latest preprint from Ducat lab. Happy to be part of it!
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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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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...
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January 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I am so happy to share the preprint of my latest research project. Great collaboration with @yagut.bsky.social and @laurinikkanen.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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