EastBio: Building a functional synthetic pyrenoid in plants using components from diverse algal lineages
University of Edinburgh
School of Biological Sciences
Research Group:
Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences
Photosynthesis in plants is limited by the catalytic efficiency of the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco. In most algae and some bryophytes, the performance of Rubisco is enhanced by a CO2-concentrating mechanism centred around a pyrenoid, a liquid-like, phase-separated microcompartment that saturates Rubisco with CO2. Read more
Supervisor: Prof A McCormick
16 November 2026
PhD Research Project
Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)