Billy Tasker-Brown
@billybtb.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Scientist in the Webster group
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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...
The structure of a 2-MDa chloroplast RNA polymerase reveals unexpected evolutionary complexity
Transcription in chloroplasts depends on the Plastid-Encoded RNA polymerase (PEP), a bacterial-derived enzyme whose catalytic core remains encoded by the highly reduced genome inherited from the cyano...
www.biorxiv.org
June 24, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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...
We published a review comparing transcription in the chloroplast and bacteria!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
June 3, 2026 at 8:54 PM
We published a review comparing transcription in the chloroplast and bacteria!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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From 18 to 20 May researchers from across Norwich Research Park will be sharing their exciting science at pubs and venues across our fine city of Norwich as part of @pintofscience.uk 🍺
Here’s some of the exciting science our researchers will be talking about⤵️
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Here’s some of the exciting science our researchers will be talking about⤵️
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May 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
From 18 to 20 May researchers from across Norwich Research Park will be sharing their exciting science at pubs and venues across our fine city of Norwich as part of @pintofscience.uk 🍺
Here’s some of the exciting science our researchers will be talking about⤵️
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Here’s some of the exciting science our researchers will be talking about⤵️
buff.ly/JnbTkhq
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📢Come work with us! We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the ARIA-funded PlantPlug project🌱 Be part of pioneering work turning mistletoe into programmable plant biointerfaces🧬
More information: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
#PlantScience #PostdocJobs #SyntheticBiology
More information: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
#PlantScience #PostdocJobs #SyntheticBiology
Job profile
vacancies.essex.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
📢Come work with us! We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the ARIA-funded PlantPlug project🌱 Be part of pioneering work turning mistletoe into programmable plant biointerfaces🧬
More information: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
#PlantScience #PostdocJobs #SyntheticBiology
More information: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
#PlantScience #PostdocJobs #SyntheticBiology
Reposted by Billy Tasker-Brown
New Editorial: "Naming is caring" rdcu.be/esS4x
We can now carry in our pockets applications that accurately identify the plants around us. These are interesting tools for researchers, but they also help everyone to appreciate the diversity of the natural world.
We can now carry in our pockets applications that accurately identify the plants around us. These are interesting tools for researchers, but they also help everyone to appreciate the diversity of the natural world.
June 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New Editorial: "Naming is caring" rdcu.be/esS4x
We can now carry in our pockets applications that accurately identify the plants around us. These are interesting tools for researchers, but they also help everyone to appreciate the diversity of the natural world.
We can now carry in our pockets applications that accurately identify the plants around us. These are interesting tools for researchers, but they also help everyone to appreciate the diversity of the natural world.
"Photosynthesis transformed the Earth into a beautiful, green and oxygen-rich oasis in which a multitude of diverse lifeforms were able to evolve and survive."
Nice figures in this review article.
Nice figures in this review article.
New Online! Structure, regulation and assembly of the photosynthetic electron transport chain
Structure, regulation and assembly of the photosynthetic electron transport chain
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00847-yThe electron transfer chain in chloroplast thylakoid membranes uses solar energy to produce NADPH and ATP, which power carbon fixation into biomass. This Review discusses the structure and function of the core photosynthesis complexes and provides recent insights into their regulation and assembly.
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May 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
"Photosynthesis transformed the Earth into a beautiful, green and oxygen-rich oasis in which a multitude of diverse lifeforms were able to evolve and survive."
Nice figures in this review article.
Nice figures in this review article.
Reposted by Billy Tasker-Brown
Global methane emissions from rice paddies are higher than previously estimated, topping 39 million metric tonnes in 2022
https://go.nature.com/4iVxOK8
https://go.nature.com/4iVxOK8
Rice paddies produce food for billions ― and lots of methane
Just five nations account for more than three-quarters of the emissions of this potent greenhouse gas that stem from rice cultivation.
go.nature.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Global methane emissions from rice paddies are higher than previously estimated, topping 39 million metric tonnes in 2022
https://go.nature.com/4iVxOK8
https://go.nature.com/4iVxOK8