Josep Vilarrasa‐Blasi

This study identifies proteins involved in pyrenoid membrane biogenesis and shows their role in CO2 delivery, with implications for engineering functional pyrenoids in crops.

The paper identifies RMT2 as a chloroplast methyltransferase homolog involved in photosystem I biogenesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii through a high-throughput O2 sensitivity screen.

The paper systematically characterizes gene function in a photosynthetic organism by analyzing mutant phenotypes across diverse conditions and linking them to functional pathways.

The paper creates a genome-wide mutant library for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to identify genes essential for photosynthesis, finding 303 candidate genes, including 21 novel ones.