Dr. Jonikas earned his Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Francisco. He started his laboratory at the Carnegie Institution for Science on Stanford campus and in 2016, moved his laboratory to Princeton University. His research group seeks to advance our basic understanding of cell biology. Focused on studying the pyrenoid, a phase-separated organelle that enhances CO2 capture in nearly all eukaryotic algae and a central role in our planet’s carbon cycle. His laboratory is currently developing and applying novel functional genomics strategies in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, aiming to accelerate the understanding of photosynthetic organisms.
Dr. Jonikas will be joining us via Zoom at 2:00 pm CDT, on Thursday, April 28th. He will also stay on to chat with grad students and postdocs about his career path and discuss any remaining questions from the talk.
RSVP to hear about Dr. Jonikas’s work on “The Structure, biogenesis, and engineering of the Eukaryotic CO2-concentrating organelle, the Pyrenoid.
More details at: https://unlcrops.wixsite.com/psi-crops/event-info/crops-april-webinar-dr-martin-jonikas