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Josh Lawrence

@jmlawrence.bsky.social
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Research Fellow at Trinity Hall and Chemistry Department of the University of Cambridge | he/him

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Darius Kosmützky @dariuskos.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🚨 New Preprint! 🚨 For my PhD, I investigated an over 20-year-old mystery in photosynthesis: What does the highly conserved but enigmatic protein cytochrome c6A actually do? We found: c6A helps algae stayin' alive in the "DISCO". 🪩 See the thread below & read the preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
Algae in the DISCO! (AI generated image before it was cringy to do that)
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Josh Lawrence @jmlawrence.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Our latest paper is out now in @jacs.acspublications.org . In this study we tried to push the limits of #electrochemistry beyond proteins, to studying entire pathways of biological electron transfer ⚡️🦠. Here's a summary 🧵 (1/10) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Dissecting Bioelectrical Networks in Photosynthetic Membranes with Electrochemistry
Photosynthetic membranes contain complex networks of redox proteins and molecules, which direct electrons along various energy-to-chemical interconversion reactions important for sustaining life on Ea...
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Leonid Digel @leodigel.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Out now! Simultaneous aerobic and anaerobic respiration enabled via extracellular electron transfer. Meet Microbacterium deferre A1-JK. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Iron reduction under oxic conditions by Microbacterium deferre sp. nov. A1-JKT - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors show that Microbacterium deferre A1-JK, a newly isolated Gram-positive bacterium, simultaneously reduces oxygen and iron under oxic conditions, revealing unexpected microbia...
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Josh Lawrence @jmlawrence.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Was great to be part of this study headed up by @scaralbi.bsky.social. We are very excited by the finding that chromosomal polyploidy could be an important driver in the #evolution of #cyanobacteria and other prokaryotes. 🧬🦠
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Josh Lawrence @jmlawrence.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Thanks to @cenmag.bsky.social for this great article about our efforts to create music with algae 🎶🦠
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Josh Lawrence @jmlawrence.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Here's something a little different to our usual research for my inaugral Bluesky Post. In our new perspective out now in Applied Phycology, we describe how you can use the electrical signals of algae to generate music 🦠⚡️🎵. 🧵1/12 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Algal biomusic generation
Technologies which can generate music with limited human intervention are a longstanding area of investigation for musicians and musicologists, with particular interest in how these technologies ca...
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