Respiration of photosynthetic organisms across the tree of life

Jenevieve Weissman joins us as a Junior Specialist. Welcome!

 

In this article, Dr Maldonado reviews recent structural and functional investigations of plant supercomplex I + III₂ from Arabidopsis thaliana and Vigna radiata, including commonalities, open questions and implications for complex I, complex III₂ and supercomplexes in plants and non-plants.

Reece Riddle joins us as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Welcome, Reece!

Read the CBS article here.

Read the PLOS Biology Perspective here.

Learn about Leading Edge here.

 

Catherine Wang, Viktoria Dubinin and Shriya Jain join us as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!

 

Max Xu joins our team of undergraduate students. Welcome, Max!

Yuxin Jiang was awarded an ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to do research in the lab this summer (2023). Congratulations, Yuxin!

Dr Pablo Maturana joins the lab as our first postdoc. Welcome, Pablo!

New paper on the structure and function of respiratory supercomplex I+III2 from mung bean together with the Letts lab! Excited to see this come out back-to-back with supercomplex I+III2 from Arabidopsis thaliana from Drs N. Klusch, HP Braun, W. Kühlbrandt and team.

Papers here and here.

We are a new lab in the Department of Plant Biology at UC Davis.

We are open for rotation students in the Winter quarter and will be posting openings for staff positions soon. Please see our Opportunities page for more information.