Martin Jonikas
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Martin Jonikas
@mjonikas.bsky.social
I'm a scientist studying and engineering CO2 assimilation in plants, algae, chloroplasts, and pyrenoids!
https://jonikaslab.princeton.edu/
Algal pyrenoids—condensates that mediate ~1/3 of Earth’s CO2 fixation—change size and number as cells divide. Our data suggest a simple control mechanism: a kinase that continuously ejects material from the condensate! ☀️🌍🔬💧 #Biophysics #Photosynthesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Zygmunt was captured by the Gestapo together with his daughter, my grandmother, Zofia Górska Romanowiczowa, who survived Ravensbrück and Neurohlau concentration camps and went on to be a prominent Polish writer in exile. Not knowing her father's fate, she wrote this poem to him:
January 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, I wanted to share a photo of my great-grandfather, Zygmunt Górski, who was murdered there - shot in a gravel pit on March 14, 1941. He was a leader in the Polish underground resistance in WWI and WWII.
January 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We are excited to share 71,700 new #Chlamy mutants from the CLiP2 collection pre-publication! Nearly-saturating genome coverage.

Please note: new background strain, mating type, and antibiotic resistance.

Read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Search and order: www.chlamylibrary.org
December 19, 2024 at 4:34 PM
#Postdoc position available in dual-comb #spectroscopy!
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
In collaboration with the Rabitz Lab, we are developing a novel instrument that will allow the visualization of the spatial distribution of CO2 and other small molecules in cells!
December 4, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Our paper describing the discovery of proteins that make pyrenoid-traversing membranes is finally out!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 20, 2024 at 3:31 AM
Excited to share our latest preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 20, 2024 at 3:25 AM