S. Merchant Lab @Merchant_Lab
•Dynamics of trace metals metabolism •Comparative Genomics of Algae •Bioenergy @UCBerkeley @BiochemistryACS Berkeley, CA Joined March 2019-
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Published in The Plant Cell! The Merchant's lab paper detailing the genome and genetic toolkit is linked below! Congrats to first author Rory and the Auxenochlorella team who contributed to this for their exemplary work! academic.oup.com/plcell/article…
Jeff Moseley and Sabeeha just published a review in Current Opinion in Biotechnology on the genetically tractable green algal species Auxenochlorella and Prototheca, and their potential for synthetic biology applications. Check it out sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
It’s a week of celebration! Congrats to Liam for passing his quals, Marco for receiving the UC Dissertation Year fellowship, Hannah for joining the lab and receiving the NSF GRFP fellowship!
Congratulations to two very accomplished Merchant Lab undergrads, Lauren Chiang and Kyle Lew on the completion of their degrees! Lauren will be starting med school this Summer and Kyle will be working full time in the lab as an NIH Prep Scholar!
Great job to our undergraduate researchers, Lillian Lee Sanfilippo and Paige Lorelai Zhong, for presenting their work and sharing their experiences with prospective students at Cal Day. We’re proud of you! @NatureAtCal
Our latest systems biology study out now @PNASNews! See how acclimation to dim days impacts fitness in bright days and mine data collected from synchronized cultures to uncover how algae repair severe photodamage & acclimate anew in just 48 h 🌱🌞 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…
Chlamy never ceases to surprise me! Our new preprint tracks dim-day acclimated Chlamy populations as they face sudden bright days. See how the alga bounces back from severe photodamage and a weird empty stroma phenotype to divide successfully by nightfall. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…
We promote Auxenochlorella as the green yeast for studying chloroplasts and photosynthesis! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Our large-scale biology article is out in @ThePlantCell! Dig into these rich datasets to see how light-induced stress not only impacts what algae do during the day, but also how it shapes their physiology and gene expression at night. doi.org/10.1093/plcell…
Huge congratulations to our lab intern Kenzo Khoo on completing his Master’s in Bioprocess Engineering at UC Berkeley and starting a new role at Genentech! Thank you for your valuable contributions to algae culture scale-up and metabolic analysis at LBNL. We're proud of you!
Sabeeha wrote about the history of her research in this article, take a look! kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…
Graduate Student Marco Dueñas recently did an interview with @QB3Berkeley on our recent polycistronic paper out in @PNASNews. Come read below! qb3.berkeley.edu/news/focus-on-…
This month's interview is with Marco Dueñas, a PhD candidate in Sabeeha Merchant’s lab! He chats with us about his recent paper in @PNASNews, overcoming research challenges, and more. Read the story: bit.ly/m-duenas
The Merchant lab's latest work on polycistronic expression in green algae is published in PNAS! Come find out how we uncovered the mechanism driving multiple ORF translation and its potential for synthetic biology! Congrats to @MarcoADuenas8 and team! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
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