Giovanni Finazzi

This study identifies three photoprotective mechanisms in diatoms under light stress: detachment of oxygen-evolving complex proteins, NPQ in the antenna, and energy spillover between photosystems.

A genome-wide CRISPR screen in diatoms identifies genes critical for survival under different light conditions, including a novel gene involved in cyclic electron flow.

The paper introduces a crosslinking-MS strategy to map native protein interactions in functional thylakoid membranes from Arabidopsis and spinach while preserving photosynthetic activity.

This paper introduces MorphoLearn, an AI framework for 3D FIB-SEM segmentation of diatoms, showing that whole-cell segmentation reveals architectural differences and that transfer learning and contrast-aware strategies improve performance.

This study compares how two Thalassiosira diatom species respond to iron limitation by examining chloroplast-mitochondrial coupling through proteomics and imaging.

This study identifies a mitochondrial carrier transporter in diatoms that facilitates energy exchange between mitochondria and plastids, supporting photosynthesis.

This study identifies LHL4 as a photoprotective protein in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that prevents photodamage to photosystem II by binding its monomeric form and reducing singlet oxygen accumulation.

This study identifies a protein shell surrounding diatom pyrenoids that enhances CO2 fixation efficiency and reveals its structural and functional role through in vivo and in vitro analyses.