Curriculum Vitae

Education and employment

• 2023-present: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of York (UK)
• 2019-2023: Ph.D in Mechanistic Biology (White Rose DTP), University of York (UK)
• 2017-2018: Research placement with Mikael Rørdam Andersen, Technical University of Denmark (DK)
• 2016-2019: BSc in Biochemistry, University of York (UK)

Skills

• Protein biochemistry
  • Protein purification from E. coli, algae, plants and Pichia pastoris
  • Liquid-liquid phase separation assays
• Microscopy
  • Super-resolution confocal microscopy
  • Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP)
• Biomolecular interactions
  • Surface plasmon resonance (SPR)
  • Microscale thermophoresis (MST)
  • Co-immunoprecipitation (co-IP) mass spectrometry
  • Mass photometry
• Structural biology
  • Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM).
• Bioinformatics
  • Tool development (FLIPPer)
  • In silico protein characterisation
  • Differential expression analysis

Publications

A selection of publications is listed below, please refer to my Google scholar profile for a more comprehensive summary.

Sticker number modulates pyrenoid condensate assembly to support algal fitness

*Kumar, G., *Barrett, J., *Van der Stappen, P., et. al., "Sticker number modulates pyrenoid condensate assembly to support algal fitness." bioRxiv. (2026).

Pyrenoid Structure, Function, Evolution, and Characterization Across Diverse Lineages

*Barrett, J., *Nam, O., *Naduthodi, M.I.S., Mackinder L.C.M.. "Pyrenoid Structure, Function, Evolution, and Characterization Across Diverse Lineages." Annual Review Plant Biology. (2026).

A modular high-throughput approach for advancing synthetic biology in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas

Inckemann, R. et al. (2024). "A modular high-throughput approach for advancing synthetic biology in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas" Nat. Plants. (2025)

A promiscuous mechanism to phase separate eukaryotic carbon fixation in the green lineage

Barrett, J., Naduthodi, M.I.S., Mao, Y. et al. "A promiscuous mechanism to phase separate eukaryotic carbon fixation in the green lineage." Nat. Plants. (2024).

Predicting Rubisco-Linker Condensation from Titration in the Dilute Phase

Payne-Dwyer, A. et al. (2024). "Predicting Rubisco-Linker Condensation from Titration in the Dilute Phase". Physical review letters, 132 (21), p.218401.

Supervision

• Supervised 1 masters student on international lab rotation (June 2025 - September 2025)
• Supervised 1 integrated masters student (September 2024 - May 2025)
• Supervised 2 integrated masters student (September 2020 - May 2021)
• Supervised 5 undergraduate students as part of BPSInet UGIRES scheme (Summer 2020)

Organisation & Outreach

• Tutor at the 2026 Gatsby Plant Science Summer School (July 2026)
• Tutor at the 2025 Gatsby Plant Science Summer School (July 2025)
• Pint of Science 2025 “Planet Earth” session speaker (May 2025)
• Facilitator for primary school microscopy outreach project, organised by Dr. Katy Davis (January 2025)
• Tutor at the 2024 Gatsby Plant Science Summer School (July 2024)
• Session chair for “What shared Physics of Life principles do we see across pyrenoids from different lineages?” at the York Physics of Pyrenoids (YP3) knowledge exchange retreat (April 2024).