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)

Grants & Funding

• Departmental Research Committee (DRC) funding — to visit the lab of Ben Engel at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, for one month to bring back expansion microscopy (September 2026)
• Engineering Biology Flexible Talent Mobility Account (EngBio FTMA+), £10,000 — to build a collaboration with the lab of Patrick Cai, University of Manchester (February 2026)
• Named researcher, Carbon Technology Research Foundation (CTRF) grant, 3 years — collaborative project with Princeton University and the University of Edinburgh developing a universal strategy for pyrenoid-based CO₂-concentrating mechanism engineering (October 2024)

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.

• Molecular organization of the Chlorella sorokiniana pyrenoid Naduthodi, M.I.S., Barrett, J., Pritchard, J. et al. "Molecular organization of the Chlorella sorokiniana pyrenoid." bioRxiv (2026). doi: 10.64898/2026.07.17.739135
• A spatial atlas of the seaweed CO2-fixation machinery reveals a unique Rubisco condensation mechanism Barrett, J., Dégut, C., Sebiani Calvo, A. et al. "A spatial atlas of the seaweed CO2-fixation machinery reveals a unique Rubisco condensation mechanism." bioRxiv (2026). doi: 10.64898/2026.07.16.738900
• 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).

Conference attendance

• 1st Satellite Meeting on the Evolution of Photosynthesis - 2026 [London, UK] (invited speaker)
• ICPR - 2026 [Liverpool, UK] (Poster - “Convergent evolution in the eukaryotic CO2-fixing organelle, the pyrenoid”)
• CCM11 - 2025 [York, UK] (Talk - “The Chlorella pyrenoid as a universal donor for plant engineering”)
• York Physics of Pyrenoids (YP3) - 2024 [Lake District, UK] (Talk - “Convergent evolution of green algal pyrenoids”)
• Genetics of Future Food Production and the Green Revolution 2.0 - 2023 [Newcastle, UK] (Talk - “A promiscuous mechanism to phase separate eukaryotic carbon fixation”)
• CCM10 - 2022 [Princeton, NJ] (Talk - “ID of pyrenoid linker proteins in core chlorophytes suggests shared principles for pyrenoid assembly and function”)

Peer Review

• Reviewer for PNAS
• Reviewer for Nature Plants
• Reviewer for Plant Physiology

Professional Memberships

• Genetics Society
• British Phycological Society