Serena Flori

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.

The paper introduces an Advanced Mobile Laboratory (AML) for field-based microbial ecology and cell biology, enabling multiscale analysis of environmental samples directly at the sampling site.

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 paper demonstrates that cryo-ExM overcomes diatom silica barriers to enable high-resolution imaging and comparative cell biology across diverse diatom species.

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.