Week 23 Roundup, 2026

This Week in the Lab

This week, the lab shared 1 update - here’s the roundup:

• Congratulations to Dr. Tobias Pfennig - Congratulations to Dr. Tobias Pfennig

Citations This Week

With 6 citations this week, it’s clear our work continues to inspire research far and wide:

• “A stress-response-recovery framework integrating microbial life-history strategies for stressed anaerobic digestion” - Guangxue Wu et al. (Bioresource Technology) - citing our “Microbial markets: socio-economic perspective in studying microbial communities”
• “Engineering coral microbiomes for climate resilience: modular consortia, programmable microbes, and scalable restoration” - Khadija Nagi et al. (Symbiosis) - citing our “A new era of synthetic biology—microbial community design”
• “Generating–Transferring–Diverting strategy for photosynthetic electron transfer chain remodeling” - 郭宝元 et al. (Green Carbon) - citing our “Computational Analysis of Alternative Photosynthetic Electron Flows Linked With Oxidative Stress”
• ”PERSPECTIVE : organelle positioning as a principle of metabolic regulation and stress tolerance” - Alisdair R. Fernie et al. (The Plant Journal) - citing our “Improving photosynthetic efficiency toward food security: Strategies, advances, and perspectives”
• “Constitutive zeaxanthin accumulation affects photosynthetic activity and non-photochemical quenching in Chlorella vulgaris” - Stefano Cazzaniga et al. (Plant Physiology and Biochemistry) - citing our “Impaired photoprotection in Phaeodactylum tricornutum KEA3 mutants reveals the proton regulatory circuit of diatoms light acclimation”
• “Multi-omic data fusion reveals the in vivo enzyme kinetics of Vibrio natriegens at the genome-scale” - St. Elmo Wilken et al. (bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)) - citing our “COBREXA.jl: constraint-based reconstruction and exascale analysis”