Ayuzah Shah worked with David Su and Samuel Chen, studying the localization and function of chloroplast-division positioning regulators.
Author: Masayuki Onishi
Summer lab outing to Durham Bulls game
With new postdoc Noor Singh
Samed Delic defended his thesis
The Onishi lab produced its first PhD. Congratulations Dr. Samed Delic! You can read some of his thesis work here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38994454/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41959007/
David Su graduated with a Biology Faculty Award
Congratulations David!
He will be spending the gap year as a Research Associate in the Onishi lab, conducting a proteomic analysis of the chloroplast-division machinery.
High-school students Eleena Chacko and Trinity Bai completed their Summer Internships
Eleena helped David and Samuel develop an electroporation method for chloroplast transformation. Trinity worked with Yaning on three projects, including the generation of an important mutant Chlamydomonas strain by CRISPR.
New paper: Rossie Clark-Cotton and Samuel Chen, together with four high school interns, published a paper in Molecular BIology of the Cell
Clark-Cotton, M. R., Chen, S. A., Gomez, A., Mulabagal, A. J., Perry, A., Malhotra, V., & Onishi, M. (2025).
Imaging-based screen identifies novel natural compounds that perturb cell and chloroplast division in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 36(4), br14.
https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E24-09-0425
Caroline Simon (EMBL) visited the lab
Caroline Simon from the Gautam Dey and Niccolo Banterle’s labs at EMBL Heidelberg visited us to teach Ultrastructural Expansion Microscopy (U-ExM). We had extremely productive three weeks!
Masayuki Onishi Reveived the NSF CAREER Award!
Rossie Clark-Cotton co-writes a primer on Chlamydomonas for Current Biology
Postdoc Manuella R. (Rossie) Clark-Cotton co-authored “Quick Guide: Chlamydomonas” with our collaborator Frej Tulin at Carnegie Plant Biology.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00682-1
New paper by Samed Delic: The evolutionary origins and ancestral features of septins. in Frontiers in Cell Dev Biol
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38994454/
Graduate Student Samed Delic published his paper on a pan-eukaryote search for septins and their ancestral features. This is a collaboration paper with co-first author Brent Shuman in Michelle Momany’s lab at UGA, as well as with Shoken Lee and Shirin Bahmayer at Yale.
Building upon this paper, Samed is now studying the role of septin proteins in Chlamydomonas and other photosynthetic organisms. Stay tuned!
