Incredibly grateful for the support our lab is receiving from John and Leslie Sutherland! It'll let us explore crazy ideas that might just work (first up: doing something evolution has never done; turn mitochondria into a phototrophic organelle). cos.gatech.edu/news/will-ra... - ThreadSky

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wcratcliff.bsky.social • 10 days ago

Incredibly grateful for the support our lab is receiving from John and Leslie Sutherland! It'll let us explore crazy ideas that might just work (first up: doing something evolution has never done; turn mitochondria into a phototrophic organelle).

https://cos.gatech.edu/news/will-ratcliff-named-sutherland-professor

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gerrich.bsky.social•10 days ago

All the best!

Looking forward to all the cool EvoBio papers to come! ✨

jpbarton.bsky.social•10 days ago

Congratulations! Sounds like exciting work ahead.

wcratcliff.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yeah, this project is straight out of the brain of resident mad scientist Tony Burnetti :)

shikharabhat.bsky.social•9 days ago

Congratulations!! 🎉🎉

johannateske.bsky.social•10 days ago

Whoa, awesome, congratulations! 🙌🏻🙌🏻Thank you for sharing some good news.

samuelconnell.3i.social•10 days ago

Congrats Will!

vancleve.theoretical.bio•10 days ago

congrats Will!!

wcratcliff.bsky.social•10 days ago

thanks Jeremy!

everydayhuman.bsky.social•10 days ago

Very nice! Sounds exciting!

fad1.bsky.social•9 days ago

Congrats and go well. Intrigued of course about making a mitochondrion into a phototrophic organelle. I always think of mitochondrial electron transport as photosynthesis running “backwards” but will your version split water to generate the electrons?

wcratcliff.bsky.social•8 days ago

Nah it’s gonna be rhodopsin based!