Old Announcements
April 2021: Genevieve successfully defended her dissertation on April 26th. Congratulations!
July 2020: Listen to Eva Farre, Miles Roberts and Kevin Folta discuss about circadian clocks: http://www.talkingbiotechpodcast.com/249-circadian-clocks/
June 2020: Congratulations Genevieve for being awarded a predoctoral AFRI NIFA Fellowship!
May 2020:
Congratulations Amni for your graduation !!
Our grant to investigate the circadian clock in potato has started:
See the announcement in MSU Today
April 2020: Publication updates
- Farre EM (2020) The brown clock: circadian rhythms in stramenopiles. Physiologia Plantarum (doi: 10.1111/ppl.13104). Online ahead of print
January 2020: Publication updates
- Zienkiewicz A, Zienkiewicz K, Poliner E, Pulman JA, Du ZY, Stefano G, Tsai CH, Horn P, Feussner I, Farre EM, Childs KL, Brandizzi F, Benning C (2020) The Microalga Nannochloropsis during Transition from Quiescence to Autotrophy in Response to Nitrogen Availability. Plant Physiol. 182(2):819-839. doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00854 . [PubMed]
- Poliner E, Clark E, Cummings C, Benning C, Farre EM (2020) A high-capacity gene stacking toolkit for the oleaginous microalga, Nannochloropsis oceanica CCMP1779. Algal Research, 45, doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2019.101664 [link]
February 2019: Publication updates
Our manuscript on the characterization of circadian rhythms in Nannochloropsis species has been accepted in The Plant Journal.
Our paper with the Matsubara group has been accepted: Schneider T, Bolger A, Zeier J, Preiskowski S, Benes V, Trenkamp S, Usadel B, Farré EM, Matsubara S (in press). Fluctuating Light Interacts with Time of Day and Leaf Development to Reprogram Gene Expression. Plant Physiology. [Pubmed]
- Visit Eric’s website for updates on algal synthetic biology: https://algalsyntheticbiology.com/
- Congratulations Eric for receiving the Anton Lang Memorial Award !
- March 2018: Publication updates
Our article describing a novel tool to generate marker free Nannochloropsis mutants has been accepted at ACS Synthetic Biology:
Poliner E, Takeuchi T, Du Z-Y, Benning C, Farré EM. Non-transgenic marker-free gene disruption by an episomal CRISPR system in the oleaginous microalga Nannochloropsis oceanica CCMP1779
Our review on genetic tools for Nannochloropsis species has been accepted at Plant Cell Reports :
Poliner E, Farré EM, Benning C. Advanced genetic tools enable synthetic biology in the oleaginous micoalga Nannochloropsis oceanica
- November 2017: Congratulations Eric for your successful graduation!!
- October 2017. Our work on the characterization of the natural variation of circadian rhythms in potato in collaboration with the Buell lab has bee published!
Hardigan M, Newton L, Crisovan E, Wiegert-Rininger K, Wood J, Douches DS, Farré EM, Veilleux R, Buell DR. Genome diversity of tuber bearing Solanum uncovers complex evolutionary history and targets of domestication in the cultivated potato. PNAS
See MSU’s press release
See feature in Nature Plants
- The Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine was received by pioneers of the identification of the molecular circadian clock in flies! More information can be found here.