Tanner Robison

Happy to share our🆕 #OpenAccess article " #Engineering the #paclitaxel biosynthetic pathway in #Physcomitrium patens for de novo and stable biosynthesis🧬🌿" is now published in @natcomms.nature.com🥳🎉 Congrts to all authors👏 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com #plantscience

Here's a short blog post about the second article of my PhD which was recently published in @journalofecology.bsky.social and was selected as the cover photo for the October 2026 issue! #aquaticplants #plantscience #ecology #climatechange jecologyblog.com/2026/10/22/a...

The @burkemuseum.bsky.social is offering funds to support graduate and postdoctoral research visits to the collections, including our University of Washington Herbarium! Please help us get the word out! More information is available here: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

“For four decades, the United States has run one of the most profitable trades in the world economy… import young people that the global labor market has underpriced—graduate students whose ability outruns their résumés—give them a place to prove themselves, and keep much of the upside”

What even is a pyrenoid? Check it out 👇

If you’ve always been curious about how algae fix carbon, @phaips.vd.st, @cellarchlab.com and I have put together the quickest route into pyrenoids. And if you don’t feel like reading at all, we have an accompanying poster doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Our paper on the subcellular proteome of Paulinella is finally out! A possible oxygen-scavenging mechanism to enhance RuBisCO carboxylation highlights how protists can reveal unexpected solutions to challenges in photosynthesis. Big kudos to everyone involved! @evanowack.bsky.social

A CO2-limitation-induced cytosolic repressor enables shutdown of the algal CO2-concentrating mechanism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.01.748463v1

On behalf of 108 colleagues and friends from 11 countries, thrilled to share the first paper from our 100 #Diatom Genomes Project (100DGP). Just out @plosbiology.org | @norwichmicro.bsky.social | @ueaenv.bsky.social | @jgi.doe.gov doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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A comparative work on spore ultrastructure and evolution across hornworts. Work led by Karen Renzaglia and a ressource for botanists and paleobotanists. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Molecular architecture of colossal surface layers from hyperthermophilic archaea Led by @idocaspy.bsky.social (Ido) In collaboration with @mkrupovic.bsky.social and @vikramalva.bsky.social labs doi.org/10.64898/202...

A stress response can be a great starting point for discovering new biology! By following genes regulated during the chloroplast unfolded protein response, we’re discovering novel factors involved in chloroplast homeostasis. Here’s the first one we characterized: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Why a Chloroplast Needs Its Own Genome Tethered to the Thylakoid Membrane—Co‐Location for Redox Regulation - Allen - 2026 - BioEssays - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century

Lipids build the membranes of all cells, but identifying their precise functions is extremely challenging. Here’s our attempt to change that: How to find and understand lipid-protein interactions, by Katelyn Cook & company. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

👥 MEET THE EDITOR 👥 For those of you at Photosynthesis 2026: Ben Long, the editor of our special issue on Engineering Photosynthesis, is here all week. 🗨️ Do you have a paper to submit? Come and have a chat! #ICPR26 #plantscience #photosynthesis @botbml.bsky.social

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

5 (+?) independent plant lineages evolved to text the same bacteria for nitrogen. we just need to learn the language they're using. www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Microscopy Nodes 3.1 is out for Blender 5.2! 🎉 This has cool new features for conditional masking, working with even larger data (regional upscaling), and data manipulation! Watch the new youtube tutorials that explain the features: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Could not wait for #FluorescenceFriday

(1/16) Nearly two-thirds of ocean carbon fixation flows through a diverse organelle: the pyrenoid. Our new paper maps its 3D architecture in the alga Chlorella and identifies new proteins — expanding the toolkit to engineer this CO2-concentrating machine into crops🧵 #Pyrenoid #CCM #Photosynthesis

Another day, another cool paper from @mackinderlab.bsky.social @james-r-barrett.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share our latest preprint on #PhycologyFriday. We map out the carbon fixation pathway for the first time in a multicellular alga, the green seaweed Ulva, and reveal a unique Rubisco-Linker interaction in the pyrenoid, a chloroplast condensate. Below I summarize some key points. #seaweeds

EPOS1 is required for normal pyrenoid starch sheath assembly and CO2-fixation in Chlamydomonas Liat Adler, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/UGKQVT... #PlantScience

A source or sink of carbon dioxide? Understanding the role of extracellular carbonic anhydrase in carbon acquisition by algal cells 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👆 A #Commentary by Glen Wheeler on this article by Li & Young. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

1/7 New preprint: we found that Chlamydomonas carries a giant and unexpectedly elaborate chloroplast RNA polymerase with 12 previously unknown subunits, overturning the idea that the complexity of this organellar enzyme emerged during plant terrestrialization! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Berkley is a great PI and mentor (look how much fun we’re having). If you’re on the fence or have any questions about the lab, feel free to reach out by message or email!

The algal pyrenoid fixes ~1/3 of global carbon, relying on a unique membrane-within-condensate architecture. How is this architecture built? We discovered that the protein MITH1 draws membranes into the pyrenoid condensate by promoting wetting! 🌿💧 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

SPEECHLESS. LFGK

These little oases are entirely dependent on rainfall. The quillworts that live here have adapted by shortening their life cycle and shifting their growing season to winter and spring. Their spores mature in early summer as the pools dry out and plants enter dormancy.

Our beautiful special issue on plant evolution is out @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

From @laura-gunn.bsky.social lab www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

(1/11) Excited to share the brand-new cell division preprint from the lab! In this manuscript, chemical biology (in a collaboration with @rnett42.bsky.social Ryan’s lab) meets the cell biology (our lab). Harmala alkaloids regulate cell division planes in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our next DinoSphere seminar will be June 18th at 9 AM PDT / 6 PM CEST hosting Jana Pilátová and @gracezhong.bsky.social 🪱 Grace Zhong: Symbiont mobility in a dinoflagellate–acoel worm symbiosis 🪩 Jana Pilátová: Eyespots as photonic mirrors in Symbiodiniaceae More details on tinyurl.com/43uckr2w!

Beyond poikilothermy: Habitat & sex shape thermoregulation & its impact on resilience to heat in the #liverwort Marchantia inflexa New #AJB research by Hansika Herath, Callie Ellis & D. Nicholas McLetchie doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #ecophysiology #Marchantiaceae

Back by request, my online quillwort course is happening this September! Registration at eaglehill.us

Now published @PNASNews! SAGA1 and SAGA2 localize the starch sheath to the pyrenoid in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hornwort pyrenoids: a terrestrial exception with engineering lessons. @tarobison.bsky.social @fernway.bsky.social @laura-gunn.bsky.social @jcarlosvillarreal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

This is a section of juvenile moss (Physcomitrium patens) tissue, called protonemata. The apical cells expand by tip-growth, while subapical cells sometimes divide to make lateral filaments. Cytosolic GFP is in green, and chlorophyll autofluorescence is in magenta. #microscopymonday #moss

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud! @thewaroncars.bsky.social

🍀🔬 🔖 Kinase Partner Zinc Finger Protein modulates pollen tube growth by influencing tip vesicle trafficking @plantphys.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/plph... 🔬 In the movie, Co-expression of SP1-mRFP and KPZP-eGFP in pollen tube.

We want to remind people that the "V" in "EV" stands for "vehicle," not "car." Electric cars have a very important role to play as we try to wean the world off of fossil fuels, but if you're able to go car-free or car-lite by getting an electric bike, that's even better.

Update: carbonic anhydrases in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria Jim Moroney LSU. academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

It's the last week of the hornwort class, we'll be discussing species boundaries, ecology, biogeography and genomics. We'll have the pleasure of having @peterwschafran.com as our invited guest sharing his knowledge on hornwort genomics.

I looked at an Isoetes while I was in Crete on holiday & under full inundation it forms a near-continuous marginal band. Mapping suggests ~2,500 plants rather than ~30 previous, so detectability/hydrology story. A geophyte persisting as a corm- a neat drawdown strategy. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sorry Duke maybe you shoulda kept your herbarium 💁‍♀️😡