Iain Johnston

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!

@SEQ616 Great! Would be good to hear how things are in Brum :-) Drop me an email when plans emerge! www4.uib.no/en/find-employ…

@mitomaths Coming North in early or late summer to visit my son & his partner. Maybe meet up if opportunity arises ?

2026 ❤️ 🇳🇴

‼️Two new PhD positions open! One experimental, one modelling, exploring these beautiful collective dynamics in mitochondria across species. 🇳🇴, good pay, full staff benefits. [Shares much appreciated] Lab: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j… Modelling: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Mitochondria, hypercubes, and a blackboard -- what a lot of favourite things for J Evol Biol this month! Thanks to all involved for a smooth and pleasant review editorial process; academic.oup.com/jeb/article/38…

@MaxUnfried @MitoPsychoBio Within cells is hard. Neat probes can report levels of bioenergetic metabolites (e.g. ATP) but can't resolve differences/gradients inside cell compartments. Some refs and models: cell.com/biophysj/fullt… Easier on bigger scales; one of the AI replies below gives a good outline!

@MitoPsychoBio Whats currently the best method to measure cellular energy, and also precise energetic distribution within the cell?

Energy is the missing dimension in medicine. Thank you for the opportunity to share thoughts on how we can effectively move forward to build a health- and healing-focused science.

An RNA splicing system that excises DNA transposons from animal mRNAs | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…