James Barrett
I am a postdoctoral research associate in the Mackinder lab at the University of York. I study pyrenoids, the Rubisco-packed compartments that algae use to concentrate CO2: how they are built, how they evolved, and how they could be engineered into crop plants. More about me.
Protocols and software
- Aug 2026 GG-calc Software
- Jun 2026 Atto NHS ester protein labelling Protocol
- May 2026 Canary Software
- Mar 2026 FLIPPer Software
- Feb 2026 SEC_Fit Software
- Dec 2025 OxySolve: Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolution Analysis Software
More recent papers
- A spatial atlas of the seaweed CO2-fixation machinery reveals a unique Rubisco condensation mechanism bioRxiv (preprint) 2026
- Sticker number modulates pyrenoid condensate assembly to support algal fitness bioRxiv 2026
- Pyrenoid Structure, Function, Evolution, and Characterization Across Diverse Lineages Annual Review of Plant Biology 2026
- A modular high-throughput approach for advancing synthetic biology in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas Nature Plants 2025
