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Jess
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Mitos, plastids, endosymbiosis, gene transfer, origins of life, tRNAs and all things wonky in mol. evolution 🧬 Postdoc in McCutcheon lab. HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow
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Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website.

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Sloan Lab
Welcome! Our research focuses on the evolutionary process at the molecular level. In particular, we investigate how a mixture of natural selection and non-adaptive forces create and maintain the amazi...
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July 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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You want to start tomography? Solve structures inside cells? Reach Nyquist 😳 ? @phaips.vd.st and I have a website for you! tomoguide.github.io
You'll find a tutorial on how to reconstruct tomograms, pick particles and do subtomogram averaging, using different software!
Hope it will be useful !
May 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I'm thrilled to share that our story is now out in Science Advances! 🎉 We use quantitative imaging to map the mito central dogma, define translation hubs in the mitochondrial matrix, and show that they're replaced by Mitochondrial Stress Bodies (MSB) when mtRNA processing is perturbed 1/4
April 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The nested endosymbiont system of the citrus mealybug. Outer bacteria labeled in green (lipid stain), the inner bacteria in blue (DNA). These endosymbionts are normally tightly packed into eukaryotic cells but with osmotic shock, you can “pop” them out. Pink cell is a host cell with mitos in magenta
April 14, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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The final version of our work on the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain is now online in @science.org 🎉
You can find the full story here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@verenaresch.bsky.social did a wonderful job on the cover and animation, she really brought it to life 👩‍🎨
In a new Science study, cryo–electron tomography captures the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, illuminating how the coordinated action of molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion.

Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq
March 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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REVIEW: Expansion of the MutS gene family in plants (Daniel B Sloan, Amanda K Broz, Shady A Kuster, Viraj Muthye, Alejandro Peñafiel-Ayala, Jennifer R Marron, Dennis V Lavrov, Luis G Brieba) https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koae277
December 20, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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Did you know that orchids have a big chunk of fungal mtDNA stuck in their own mitochondrial genomes?? In this new preprint, we found that fungal-derived tRNAs are functional in the orchid mitochondria.

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

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November 21, 2024 at 8:37 PM