Martha R. Stark

The paper analyzes the spliceosome, intronome, and splicing efficiency in three extremophilic red algae, finding reduced spliceosome components, low splicing efficiency, and conserved splice site sequences.

This study identifies neutral genomic integration sites in Cyanidioschyzon merolae and demonstrates uniform transgene expression across different positions.

The paper shows that a heat-trainable sHSP locus in the unicellular alga C. merolae is regulated by epigenetic mechanisms, enabling thermomemory through histone modifications.

The paper identifies stable intronic RNAs (sieRNAs) in Cyanidioschizoon merolae that explain the preservation of introns by encoding functional non-coding RNAs involved in stress response and gene regulation.

This paper introduces a rapid transformation protocol and tools for metabolic engineering in Cyanidioschyzon merolae, demonstrating isoprene production using a synthetic plasmid toolkit.