Iain Johnston

Mitochondrial evolution special issue of Phil Trans now out! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/381… Excited to be part of this, with some new perspectives on mtDNA segregation from our group royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/3… and brilliant content from colleagues worldwide! Pics from current location 🇳🇴

David Attenborough, 'the voice for nature,' turns 100 reut.rs/48EFrlX reut.rs/48EFrlX

The dish occupies a cubic metre and the bacteria are generating 10kW of heat. They can clearly access nutrients beyond currently understood biochem (and physics). The wobbly, hot mass has noticeably expanded while I've been typing. An alarm sounds. The sky darkens #bionumbers

Plant mitochondrial fusion factors! pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Oldest back from school today with an Easter graph theory challenge! "It's sort of a puzzle -- which bunnies can see which others, and the flower?"

Blimey. MitoTracker transfers from astrocytes to neurons independently of mitochondria: Cell Reports Methods cell.com/cell-reports-m…

Celebrating (i) spring; (ii) grant award; (iii) first butterfly of the year (not pictured); (iv) forthcoming cool science! Best wishes to all!

In Finland and... [here are the links docs.google.com/document/d/1NE…]

New OA Article: "High-frequency biparental inheritance of plant mitochondria upon chilling stress and loss of a genome-degrading nuclease" rdcu.be/e6GEA Maternal inheritance of mitochondria breaks down in cold when a mitochondrial DNA degrading nuclease is defective.

One of the most fascinating perspectives ever. A symbiotic origin of the ribosome? academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

Vinterferie ❤️🇳🇴🦢

If you love the organelles that power life, come to @GordonConf Mito & Chloroplasts July 19-24, Maine. Please RT. This conference (rich tradition!) will span the evolution, metabolism, and synthetic biology of these organelles. Many oral/poster slots: tinyurl.com/5n6upfxr

@WilliamsSci @NelmsLab Cool, looking forward to reading!

@NelmsLab Excited to read this! Great job. @mitomaths check out this germline paper

Excited to share our preprint! By avoiding genetic bottlenecks leading to the germline, plant development prevents mutations from spreading to many offspring: doi.org/10.64898/2026.…

Oh! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@WilliamsSci @amaizeingcorn Looks amazing, congrats @WilliamsSci and team! Can't wait to read!

I am delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out in print today in Science! Hugely grateful to the coauthors in particular @amaizeingcorn for heroic hard work, creativity and enthusiasm in putting this together!

Beautiful display of #auroresboreales over #Tromso - really a blessing

Card from daughter. "They're mitochondria!" ❤️

1. Apply for one of the positions below (lab or theory) by Jan 18th 2. Learn interdisc skills and discover cool new things about how mitochondria move and socialise 3. Explore some of Norway's beautiful nature (both the below, Rundemanen and Gullfjellet, <10km from work)

Hey, mito Twitter community (whoever is left here). Can you please help me amplify this message? Postdoc position available in Düsseldorf!