Tatyana Darienko

Signatures for conserved phenolic-based acclimation responses to UV in a unicellular algal sister of land plants

The paper exposes zygnematophyte algae to UV irradiance and identifies conserved molecular responses, including lipid droplets and phenolic compounds, suggesting a shared UV acclimation mechanism with land plants.

The Spirogyra genome: signatures of shared and divergent division and differentiation

This study sequenced the Spirogyra pratensis genome and analyzed its transcriptional responses to light and temperature, revealing unique cytokinetic processes and plastid division mechanisms.

Chemodiverse cell systems responses to UV in an algal sister of land plants

This study investigates UV-B responses in the algal relative of land plants Mesotaenium, revealing dynamic transcriptomic and metabolomic changes and a chemodiverse response toolkit.

A deep genetic structure phylogenomically frames the closest algal relatives of land plants

The paper sequences 43 new transcriptomes of Zygnematophyceae algae and builds a phylogenomic tree, revealing deep genetic structure and ancient radiations within this algal class.

Systems acclimation to osmotic stress in zygnematophyte cells

Multi-omic profiling of unicellular Mesotaenium and filamentous Zygnema under osmotic and salt stress reveals a conserved protein and cell-wall remodeling chassis driving acclimation in land plants' closest algal relatives.