Adrien Burlacot
@aburlacot.bsky.social
Algae, photosynthesis, carbon capture | PI @CarnegieScience | Assistant Professor by courtesy @Stanford | @ForbesUnder30'23
https://linktr.ee/AlgaePeople
https://linktr.ee/AlgaePeople
📣 📣 Wondering what allow diatoms to grow in the ever-changing environment 🌦️of the ocean🌊?
Check out or latest work where we develop genome-wide CRISPR screen to unravel the genes🧬 critical for diatoms under dynamic light conditions☀️🌥️👇
Spoiler alert: it is (almost) not about NPQ 👀 but CEF 🫣
Check out or latest work where we develop genome-wide CRISPR screen to unravel the genes🧬 critical for diatoms under dynamic light conditions☀️🌥️👇
Spoiler alert: it is (almost) not about NPQ 👀 but CEF 🫣
September 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
📣 📣 Wondering what allow diatoms to grow in the ever-changing environment 🌦️of the ocean🌊?
Check out or latest work where we develop genome-wide CRISPR screen to unravel the genes🧬 critical for diatoms under dynamic light conditions☀️🌥️👇
Spoiler alert: it is (almost) not about NPQ 👀 but CEF 🫣
Check out or latest work where we develop genome-wide CRISPR screen to unravel the genes🧬 critical for diatoms under dynamic light conditions☀️🌥️👇
Spoiler alert: it is (almost) not about NPQ 👀 but CEF 🫣
Excited to have been invited to the Annual Symposium of the Botanical Society of Japan 👀🦠🌱🌾🌿
September 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Excited to have been invited to the Annual Symposium of the Botanical Society of Japan 👀🦠🌱🌾🌿
So glad to have given a course on photosynthesis ☀️ last week at the @szndohrn.bsky.social , it's very humbling to see such a historical place for marine biology 👀🐠🐟🦠
September 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
So glad to have given a course on photosynthesis ☀️ last week at the @szndohrn.bsky.social , it's very humbling to see such a historical place for marine biology 👀🐠🐟🦠
Glad to see the recognition of Vincent Boudreau's amazing work 🥳🥳🥳 and to have taken part in the journey ☺️
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ASCB and MBoC Announce 2025 Paper of the Year Award Winners - ASCB
ASCB and its research journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), are proud to recognize the outstanding scientific achievements of early career researchers through the 2025 Paper of the Year Award...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Glad to see the recognition of Vincent Boudreau's amazing work 🥳🥳🥳 and to have taken part in the journey ☺️
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Part of the lab was at York last week for the CCM11 conference! Amazing science, wonderful people as always 🥰
August 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Part of the lab was at York last week for the CCM11 conference! Amazing science, wonderful people as always 🥰
Silly artwork alert 🚨from our favorite model organisms 🫣🙃 (work of Phaeodactylum photosynthesis in dynamic light to be released very soon btw 👀)
August 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Silly artwork alert 🚨from our favorite model organisms 🫣🙃 (work of Phaeodactylum photosynthesis in dynamic light to be released very soon btw 👀)
🚨 We’re hiring! The Burlacot Lab @carnegiescience.bsky.social is recruiting a Postdoc to study how photosynthetic electron flows power CO₂ fixation in algae 🌱🧫
Cutting-edge microscopy + biophysics + sustainability 🚀
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/171656
Cutting-edge microscopy + biophysics + sustainability 🚀
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/171656
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August 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! The Burlacot Lab @carnegiescience.bsky.social is recruiting a Postdoc to study how photosynthetic electron flows power CO₂ fixation in algae 🌱🧫
Cutting-edge microscopy + biophysics + sustainability 🚀
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/171656
Cutting-edge microscopy + biophysics + sustainability 🚀
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/171656
🎉🥳 Celebrating our publication revealing proteins bandwidths of importance with a Chlamy crêpe party 🥞
@carnegiescience.bsky.social @stanfordenergy.bsky.social Publication here👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@carnegiescience.bsky.social @stanfordenergy.bsky.social Publication here👇
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May 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
🎉🥳 Celebrating our publication revealing proteins bandwidths of importance with a Chlamy crêpe party 🥞
@carnegiescience.bsky.social @stanfordenergy.bsky.social Publication here👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@carnegiescience.bsky.social @stanfordenergy.bsky.social Publication here👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It was a lot of fun to have @dstrenkert.bsky.social from @msudoeplantlab.bsky.social visit us and present her research on Ferredoxins last week 🥰 @carnegiescience.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
It was a lot of fun to have @dstrenkert.bsky.social from @msudoeplantlab.bsky.social visit us and present her research on Ferredoxins last week 🥰 @carnegiescience.bsky.social
Reposted by Adrien Burlacot
Energy trade-offs under fluctuating light govern bioenergetics and growth in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Energy trade-offs under fluctuating light govern bioenergetics and growth in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Rapidly changing light intensity is a natural challenge that photosynthetic organisms can tolerate. Regulatory mechanisms of light harvesting and alternative electron pathways are critical in dissipat...
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May 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Energy trade-offs under fluctuating light govern bioenergetics and growth in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cool to see today the work of @noodlyscientist.bsky.social featured at the @stanfordenergy.bsky.social symposium 👀 💚🦠
@carnegiescience.bsky.social
@carnegiescience.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Cool to see today the work of @noodlyscientist.bsky.social featured at the @stanfordenergy.bsky.social symposium 👀 💚🦠
@carnegiescience.bsky.social
@carnegiescience.bsky.social
📢Out today! Our work discovering that bioenergetic 🔋homeostasis in dynamic environments is periodicity-dependent ☀️🌥️🌤️⛅️🌦️☀️⛅️
We show that maintaining a healthy photosynthetic cell 💚requires mechanisms with diverse bandwidths of importance 👀
👇
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show that maintaining a healthy photosynthetic cell 💚requires mechanisms with diverse bandwidths of importance 👀
👇
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sustaining the cell energy in dynamic environments requires photosynthetic electron flows with diverse bandwidths
All living cells depend on the dynamic balance between their energy supply and demand to survive and thrive in dynamic environments. In extreme cases, like for photosynthetic organisms, their energy s...
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May 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📢Out today! Our work discovering that bioenergetic 🔋homeostasis in dynamic environments is periodicity-dependent ☀️🌥️🌤️⛅️🌦️☀️⛅️
We show that maintaining a healthy photosynthetic cell 💚requires mechanisms with diverse bandwidths of importance 👀
👇
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show that maintaining a healthy photosynthetic cell 💚requires mechanisms with diverse bandwidths of importance 👀
👇
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👀 Sneak pick on our soon publicly available discovery that photosynthetic cells maintain bioenergetics homeostasis in a light periodicity-dependent manner⛅🌥️🌤️☀️ we reveal that each electron flow has their own bandwidth of physiological importance. Stay tuned👀
May 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
👀 Sneak pick on our soon publicly available discovery that photosynthetic cells maintain bioenergetics homeostasis in a light periodicity-dependent manner⛅🌥️🌤️☀️ we reveal that each electron flow has their own bandwidth of physiological importance. Stay tuned👀
This week we did our annual retreat at the beautiful foghouse (without the fog 🥳). Glad to have such a great team ❤️ @carnegiescience.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This week we did our annual retreat at the beautiful foghouse (without the fog 🥳). Glad to have such a great team ❤️ @carnegiescience.bsky.social
📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💚Graham Peers, Associate Professor @colorado.edu joins us to discuss his journey from oceanography to algal biology, exploring how microalgae, especially diatoms, use unique adaptations to perform photosynthesis.👇
youtu.be/4hh1Z0JV1FU
youtu.be/4hh1Z0JV1FU
THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 9: Graham Peers -Oceans, Algae, and the Power of Simplicity
YouTube video by Algae People
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March 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💚Graham Peers, Associate Professor @colorado.edu joins us to discuss his journey from oceanography to algal biology, exploring how microalgae, especially diatoms, use unique adaptations to perform photosynthesis.👇
youtu.be/4hh1Z0JV1FU
youtu.be/4hh1Z0JV1FU
Super excited to be at the @apsphysics.bsky.social meeting this week 👀🥳 Looking forward to build connections at the frontier between biology and physics 👀
@carnegiescience.bsky.social
@carnegiescience.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Super excited to be at the @apsphysics.bsky.social meeting this week 👀🥳 Looking forward to build connections at the frontier between biology and physics 👀
@carnegiescience.bsky.social
@carnegiescience.bsky.social
📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💚 , @grey-monroe.bsky.social, Assistant Professor @ucdavis.bsky.social joins us to discuss genetic adaptation to climate change and the convergence of DNA repair mechanisms in plants and animals.👇
youtu.be/k8nN508LQOk
youtu.be/k8nN508LQOk
THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 8: Grey Monroe -Mastering Mutation for Resilient Agriculture
YouTube video by Algae People
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March 1, 2025 at 5:15 AM
📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💚 , @grey-monroe.bsky.social, Assistant Professor @ucdavis.bsky.social joins us to discuss genetic adaptation to climate change and the convergence of DNA repair mechanisms in plants and animals.👇
youtu.be/k8nN508LQOk
youtu.be/k8nN508LQOk
From today at lunch: an onion Chlamydomonas-shaped 👀❤️🦠
February 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
From today at lunch: an onion Chlamydomonas-shaped 👀❤️🦠
Glad to have participated in this wonderful collaborative work where we describe the coolest symbiosis ever: Stentor-Chlorella👇
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
February 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Glad to have participated in this wonderful collaborative work where we describe the coolest symbiosis ever: Stentor-Chlorella👇
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💡💚 we invite
@plantteaching.bsky.social
, plant biologist, educator and features editor at
@theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social
to discuss their journey to build a strong and welcoming plant science community.👇
youtu.be/EXAoO9F6OTg
@plantteaching.bsky.social
, plant biologist, educator and features editor at
@theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social
to discuss their journey to build a strong and welcoming plant science community.👇
youtu.be/EXAoO9F6OTg
THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 7: Mary Williams - Rooted in Science and Growing the Plant Community
YouTube video by Algae People
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January 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💡💚 we invite
@plantteaching.bsky.social
, plant biologist, educator and features editor at
@theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social
to discuss their journey to build a strong and welcoming plant science community.👇
youtu.be/EXAoO9F6OTg
@plantteaching.bsky.social
, plant biologist, educator and features editor at
@theplantcell.bsky.social and @plantphys.bsky.social
to discuss their journey to build a strong and welcoming plant science community.👇
youtu.be/EXAoO9F6OTg
📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 📷 we invite Kadeem Gilbert, plant biologist and assistant professor at @michiganstatefb.bsky.social to talk about their journey into the dynamics of plant-microbe interactions.📷 👇
youtu.be/q7ASsLrKpTg
youtu.be/q7ASsLrKpTg
THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 6: Kadeem Gilbert - Decoding Plant-Microbe Dynamics for Sustainability
YouTube video by Algae People
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January 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 📷 we invite Kadeem Gilbert, plant biologist and assistant professor at @michiganstatefb.bsky.social to talk about their journey into the dynamics of plant-microbe interactions.📷 👇
youtu.be/q7ASsLrKpTg
youtu.be/q7ASsLrKpTg
📢A new postdoctoral position is available at @carnegiescience
If you're excited about using large genome-phenotype relationships to unravel what makes CO2 fixation 🌱robust and efficient, check it out👇
jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/postdoc...
If you're excited about using large genome-phenotype relationships to unravel what makes CO2 fixation 🌱robust and efficient, check it out👇
jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/postdoc...
Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate Bioinformatics | Carnegie Science Careers
jobs.carnegiescience.edu
January 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
📢A new postdoctoral position is available at @carnegiescience
If you're excited about using large genome-phenotype relationships to unravel what makes CO2 fixation 🌱robust and efficient, check it out👇
jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/postdoc...
If you're excited about using large genome-phenotype relationships to unravel what makes CO2 fixation 🌱robust and efficient, check it out👇
jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/postdoc...
📢📣Are you a young scientist excited by sustainability, algae, and bioenergetics? We have a new opening for a junior research associate position to join our team👇
Please RT🤗
jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/junior-...
Please RT🤗
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January 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
📢📣Are you a young scientist excited by sustainability, algae, and bioenergetics? We have a new opening for a junior research associate position to join our team👇
Please RT🤗
jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/junior-...
Please RT🤗
jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/junior-...
What a wonderful start of the year with the western photosynthesis conference at @fridayharbor.bsky.social 🥳🤩
January 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
What a wonderful start of the year with the western photosynthesis conference at @fridayharbor.bsky.social 🥳🤩
📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💚 we invite Megan Bontrager, evolutionary biologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto to talk about their journey into plant eco-evolutionary dynamics.👇
youtu.be/grQyb_QTyKc
youtu.be/grQyb_QTyKc
THE GREEN LIGHT, Episode 4: Megan Bontrager - Mapping Plant Geographic Futures
YouTube video by Algae People
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December 19, 2024 at 6:31 AM
📢On this Friday's episode of The Green Light 💚 we invite Megan Bontrager, evolutionary biologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto to talk about their journey into plant eco-evolutionary dynamics.👇
youtu.be/grQyb_QTyKc
youtu.be/grQyb_QTyKc