Mackinder, Luke - York University - Department of Biology

个人简介

2016- Lecturer in Plant Biology Department of Biology, University of York 2012-2016 Barbara McClintock Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, USA 2009-2012 Marie Curie PhD Fellowship: Magna cum laude GEOMAR-Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany and the Marine Biololgical Association of the UK (MBA) 2007-2008 MSc Marine Environmental Protection: Distinction School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Wales 2004-2007 BSc Natural Sciences (Chemistry with Biology): First class honours Durham University, UK

研究领域

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Photosynthesis harnesses energy from sunlight to drive the fixation of CO2 into the organic carbon building blocks of life. Eukaryotic algae account for 30-40% of global carbon fixation, yet very little is known about how they acquire their CO2. My research focuses on understanding the molecular basis of carbon fixation in algae. With a particular focus on how algae efficiently transport CO2 from their surrounding environment and concentrate it in the proximity of Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) - the principle carbon fixing enzyme. We use high-throughput, systems biology approaches to rapidly identify key components of the carbon concentrating mechanism (CCM). We use this data to drive synthetic biology experiments to reconstruct CCMs in heterologous systems. Ultimately we aim to transfer components to higher plants to improve photosynthetic performance.