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Advances in euglenoid genomics: unravelling the fascinating biology of a complex clade (2024)
Journal Article
Fields, O., Hammond, M., Xu, X., & O'Neill, E. (2024). Advances in euglenoid genomics: unravelling the fascinating biology of a complex clade. Trends in Genetics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2024.07.007

Euglenids have long been studied due to their unique physiology and versatile metabolism, providing underpinnings for much of our understanding of photosynthesis and biochemistry, and a growing opportunity in biotechnology. Until recently there has b... Read More about Advances in euglenoid genomics: unravelling the fascinating biology of a complex clade.

Strategies for producing high value small molecules in microalgae (2024)
Journal Article
O'Neill, E., & Cagney, M. (2024). Strategies for producing high value small molecules in microalgae. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 214, Article 108942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2024.108942

Eukaryotic microalgae are a diverse group of organisms that can be used for the sustainable production of a wide range of high value compounds, including lipids, flavours and colourants, bioplastics and cosmetics. Optimising total biomass production... Read More about Strategies for producing high value small molecules in microalgae.

The biomolecules of Euglena gracilis: Harnessing biology for natural solutions to future problems (2024)
Journal Article
Bedard, S., Roxborough, E., O'Neill, E., & Mangal, V. (2024). The biomolecules of Euglena gracilis: Harnessing biology for natural solutions to future problems. Protist, 175(4), Article 126044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2024.126044

Over the past decade, the autotrophic and heterotrophic protist Euglena gracilis (E. gracilis) has gained popularity across the studies of environmental science, biosynthesis experiments, and nutritional substitutes. The unique physiology and versati... Read More about The biomolecules of Euglena gracilis: Harnessing biology for natural solutions to future problems.

microbeMASST: a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data (2024)
Journal Article
Zuffa, S., Schmid, R., Bauermeister, A., Gomes, P. W. P., Caraballo-Rodriguez, A., Abiead, Y. E., Aron, A., Gentry, E. C., Zemlin, J., Meehan, M., Avalon, N. E., Cichewicz, R., Buzun, E., Carrillo-Terrazas, M., Hsu, C.-Y., Oles, R., Ayala, A. V., Zhao, J., Chu, H., Kuijpers, M. C., …Dorrestein, P. (2024). microbeMASST: a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data. Nature Microbiology, 9(2), 336-345. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01575-9

microbeMASST, a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry (MS) search tool, tackles limited microbial metabolite annotation in untargeted metabolomics experiments. Leveraging a curated database of >60,000 microbial monocultures, users can search known... Read More about microbeMASST: a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data.