Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, December 4, 2026
Martin Jonikas, Ph.D.
Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Structure, Biogenesis, and Engineering of the Pyrenoid
The Norton Zinder Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Burton, Micah I., et al. “SBE1 drives the circumferential growth of the starch sheath around the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii pyrenoid.” bioRxiv (2026): 2026-07.
Wu, Haoyu, et al. “RBMP2 shapes specialized membranes for CO₂ delivery in the pyrenoid condensate.” bioRxiv (2026): 2026-06.
He, Shan, et al. “Kinase KEY1 controls pyrenoid condensate size throughout the cell cycle by disrupting phase separation interactions.” Nature cell biology 28.4 (2026): 725-738.
Hennacy, Jessica H., et al. “SAGA1 and MITH1 produce matrix-traversing membranes in the CO2-fixing pyrenoid.” Nature Plants 10.12 (2024): 2038-2051.
He, Shan, Victoria L. Crans, and Martin C. Jonikas. “The pyrenoid: the eukaryotic CO2-concentrating organelle.” The Plant Cell 35.9 (2023): 3236-3259.
