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Employment (7)

Princeton University: Princeton, NJ, US

2024-07 to present | Professor (Molecular Biology)
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Martin Jonikas

Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Chevy Chase, Maryland, US

2021 to present | Investigator
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Martin Jonikas

Princeton University: Princeton, NJ, US

2019 to present | Affiliated Faculty (Princeton Quantitative and Computational Biology Program)
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Martin Jonikas

Princeton University: Princeton, NJ, US

2021 to 2024-06 | Associate Professor (Department of Molecular Biology)
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Martin Jonikas

Princeton University: Princeton, NJ, US

2016 to 2021 | Assistant Professor (Department of Molecular Biology)
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Martin Jonikas

Stanford University: Stanford, CA, US

2011 to 2016 | Assistant Professor by courtesy (Department of Biology)
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Carnegie Institution for Science: Stanford, California, US

2010 to 2016 | Young Investigator (Department of Plant Biology)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of California: San Francisco, CA, US

Ph.D. (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA, US

2000 to 2004 | BS (Aerospace Engineering)
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Professional activities (24)

10th International Symposium on Inorganic Carbon Utilization by Aquatic Photosynthetic Organisms: Princeton, NJ, US

2022 to present | Chair
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Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, US

2019 to present | Princeton Molecular Biology Graduate Committee (Department of Molecular Biology)
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Martin Jonikas

Princeton University: Princeton, NJ, US

2017 to present | Chair, Postdoctoral Career Development (Department of Molecular Biology)
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U.S. National Science Foundation: Alexandria, VA, US

2013 to present | Reviewer for the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the Human Frontiers Science Program, the Swedish Research Council, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Research journals: Hoboken, NJ, US

2010 to present | Reviewer for Nature, Cell, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Microbiology, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Plant Cell, eLife, New Phytologist, Plant Physiology
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International Society of Photosynthesis Research: Montpellier, FR

2022 | Melvin Calvin-Andrew Benson Award
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Martin Jonikas

12th International Phycological Congress: Puerto Varas, CL

2021 to 2021 | Convener
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Princeton University: Princeton, NJ, US

2020 to 2021 | Co-organizer, Princeton Molecular Biology Retreat (Department of Molecular Biology)
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Merck (Germany): Darmstadt, DE

2017 to 2021 (Future Insight Prize Jury)
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Martin Jonikas

Vilcek Foundation: New York, New York, US

2020 | Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
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Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, US

2019 to 2020 | Princeton Molecular Biology Cryo Electron Microscopy Search Committee (Department of Molecular Biology)
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U.S. Dept. of Energy: Washington, DC, US

2019 to 2019 | Panelist
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Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, US

2019 to 2019
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Academic Career Panel: New Brunswick, NJ, US

2018 to 2018 | Panelist
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Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, US

2017 to 2018 | Cryo Electon Microscopy Search Committee (Department of Molecular Biology)
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Chevy Chase, Maryland, US

2016 | HHMI Simons Faculty Scholar Award
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Carnegie Institution for Science: Washington, US

2012 to 2016 | Global Ecology Joint IT Committee (Department of Plant Biology)
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Carnegie Science: Washington, DC, US

2011 to 2016 | Co-organizer, Seminar Series (Department of Plant Biology)
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National Institutes of Health: Bethesda, Maryland, US

2015 | Director's New Innovator Award
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Carnegie Science: Washington, DC, US

2014 to 2014 | Co-organizer, Carnegie Plant Biology Retreat (Department of Plant Biology)
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Carnegie Science: Washington, DC, US

2011 to 2012 | Co-wrote NSF Major Research Instrumentation Proposals (Department of Plant Biology)
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Martin Jonikas

Air Force Research Laboratory: Arlington, Virginia, US

2010 | Young Investigator Award (Air Force Office of Scientific Research)
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Carnegie Science: Washington, DC, US

2010 to 2010 | Website Committee (Department of Plant Biology)
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National Science Foundation: Alexandria, Virginia, US

2005 | National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
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Works (45)

A chloroplast protein atlas reveals novel structures and spatial organization of biosynthetic pathways

bioRxiv
2022 | Preprint
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; L Wang; W Patena; K Van Baalen; Y Xie; E Singer; S Gavrilenko; M Warren-Williams; L Han; HR Harrigan et al.
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Martin Jonikas

Modelling the pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanism provides insights into its operating principles and a roadmap for its engineering into crops.

Nature Plants
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; C Fei; AT Wilson; NM Mangan; NS Wingreen
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Martin Jonikas

Phase-separating pyrenoid proteins form complexes in the dilute phase

bioRxiv
2022 | Preprint
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; G He; T GrandPre; H Wilson; H Zhang; NS Wingreen; Q Wang
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Martin Jonikas

Systematic characterization of gene function in the photosynthetic alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Nature Genetics
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; F Fauser; J Vilarrasa-Blasi; M Onishi; S Ramundo; W Patena; M Millican; J Osaki; C Philp; M Nemeth et al.
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Martin Jonikas

Systematic identification and characterization of novel genes in the regulation and biogenesis of photosynthetic machinery

bioRxiv
2022 | Preprint
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; M Kafri; W Patena; L Martin; G Gomer; AK Sirkejyan; A Goh; AT Wilson; SE Gavrilenko; M Breker et al.
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Martin Jonikas

Arabidopsis bZIP11 Is a Susceptibility Factor During Pseudomonas syringae Infection

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; MJ Prior; J Selvanayagam; J-G Kim; M Tomar; M Mudgett; S Smeekens; J Hanson; WB Frommer
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Martin Jonikas

Identification of green lineage osmotic stress pathways

bioRxiv
2021 | Preprint
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; J Vilarrasa-Blasi; T Vellosillo; RE Jinkerson; F Fauser; T Xiang; BB Minkoff; L Wang; K Kniazev; M Guzman et al.
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Martin Jonikas

Assembly of the algal CO2-fixing organelle, the pyrenoid, is guided by a Rubisco-binding motif

Science Advances
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas
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Martin Jonikas

Co-expressed subunits of dual genetic origin define a conserved supercomplex mediating essential protein import into chloroplasts

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; S Ramundo; Y Asakura; PAA Salomé; D Strenkert; M Boone; LCM Mackinder; K Takafuji; E Dinc; M Rahire et al.
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Martin Jonikas

Genes With Roles in the Algal CO2 Concentrating Mechanism, and Others

2020 | Patent
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; FA Fauser; RE Jinkerson; J Vilarrasa Blasi
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Martin Jonikas

Increasing the uptake of carbon dioxide

eLife
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; E Franklin
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Martin Jonikas

Prospects for Engineering Biophysical CO2 Concentrating Mechanisms into Land Plants to Enhance Yields

Annual Review of Plant Biology
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; JH Hennacy
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Martin Jonikas

Rigidity enhances a magic-number effect in polymer phase separation

Nature Communications
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; B Xu; G He; BG Weiner; P Ronceray; Y Meir; NS Wingreen
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Martin Jonikas

The Pyrenoid

Current Biology
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; L Wang
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Martin Jonikas

The structural basis of Rubisco phase separation in the pyrenoid

Nature Plants
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; S He; HT Chou; D Matthies; T Wunder; MT Meyer; N Atkinson; A Martinez-Sanchez; PD Jeffrey; SA Port et al.
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Martin Jonikas

A genome-wide algal mutant library reveals a global view of genes required for eukaryotic photosynthesis

Nature Genetics
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; X Li; W Patena; F Fauser; RE Jinkerson; S Saroussi; MT Meyer; N Ivanova; JM Robertson; R Yue et al.
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Martin Jonikas

A Rubisco-binding protein is required for normal pyrenoid number and starch sheath morphology in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; AK Itakura; KX Chan; N Atkinson; L Pallesen; L Wang; G Reeves; W Patena; O Caspari; R Roth et al.
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Martin Jonikas

Phase separation in biology and disease-a symposium report

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; J Cable; C Brangwynne; G Seydoux; D Cowburn; RV Pappu; CA Castañeda; LE Berchowitz; Z Chen; A Dernburg et al.
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Martin Jonikas

Rubisco-Binding Protein Motifs and Uses Thereof

2019 | Patent
Contributors: MT Meyer; S He; A Itakura; VK Chen; LCM Mackinder; HT Chou; Z Yu; D Matthies
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Martin Jonikas

The Mars1 kinase confers photoprotection through signaling in the chloroplast unfolded protein response

eLife
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; K Perlaza; H Toutkoushian; M Boone; M Lam; M Iwai; P Walter; S Ramundo
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Martin Jonikas

Effects of microcompartmentation on flux distribution and metabolic pools in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts.

eLife
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; A Küken ; F Sommer; L Yaneva-Roder; LC Mackinder; M Höhne ; S Geimer; M Shroda; M Stitt; Z Nikoloski
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Martin Jonikas

Plant Chemical Genomics: Methods and Protocols

Springer
2018 | Book | Writing - review & editing
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; F Fauser
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Martin Jonikas

The ER Membrane Protein Complex Interacts Cotranslationally to Enable Biogenesis of Multipass Membrane Proteins

eLife
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; MJ Shurtleff; DN Itzhak; JA Hussman; NT Schirle Oakdale; EA Costa; J Weibezahn; KD Popova; Ch Jan; P Sinitcyn et al.
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Martin Jonikas

A spatial interactome reveals the anatomy of the algal CO2 concentrating mechanism

Cell
2017 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; LCM Mackinder; C Chen; RD Leib; W Patena; SR Blum; M Rodman; S Ramundo; CM Adams
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Martin Jonikas

Spatial Interactome Reveals the Anatomy of the Algal CO2 Concentrating Mechanism

2017 | Patent
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; LCM Mackinder
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Martin Jonikas

The eukaryotic CO2 concentrating organelle is liquid-like and exhibits dynamic reorganization

Nature Plants
2017 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; ES Freeman Rosenzweig; B Xu; L Kuhn Cuellar; A Martinez-Sanchez; M Schaffer; M Strauss; HN Cartwright; JM Plitzko; F Förster et al.
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Martin Jonikas

The eukaryotic CO2 concentrating organelle is liquid-like and exhibits dynamic reorganization

Cell
2017 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; ES Freeman Rosenzweig ; B Xu; L Kuhn Cuellar; A Martinez-Sanchez; M Schaffer; M Strauss; HN Cartwright; JM Plitzko; F Förster et al.
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Martin Jonikas

A repeat protein links Rubisco to form the eukaryotic carbon-concentrating organelle

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
2016 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; LC Mackinder; MT Meyer; T Mettler-Altmann; VK Chen; MC Mitchell; O Caspari; ES Freeman Rosenzweig; L Pallesen; G Reeves et al.
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Martin Jonikas

Algal Components of the Pyrenoid’s Carbon Concentrating Mechanism

2016 | Patent
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; LM Mackinder; MT Meyer; T Mettler-Altmann; L Pallesen; M Stitt; H Griffiths
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Martin Jonikas

An indexed, mapped mutant library enables reverse genetics studies of biological processes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

The Plan Cell
2016 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; X Li; R Zhang; W Patena; SS Gang; SR Blum; N Ivanova; R Yue; JM Robertson; P Lefebvre et al.
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Martin Jonikas

High-throughput genetics strategies for identifying new components of lipid metabolism in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Lipids in Plant and Algae Development
2016 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; U Armbruster; L Leonelli; V Correa Galvis; D Strang; EH Quinn; KK Niyogi
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Martin Jonikas

A fluorescence-activated cell sorting-based strategy for rapid isolation of high-lipid Chlamydomonas mutants

The Plant Journal
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; M Terashima; ES Freeman; RE Jinkerson
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Martin Jonikas

Critical role of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ferredoxin-5 in maintaining membrane structure and dark metabolism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; W. Yang; TM Wittkopp; J Warakanont; A Dubini; C Catalanotti; RG Kim; EC Nowack; LC Mackinder; M Aksoy et al.
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Martin Jonikas

Introducing an algal carbon-concentrating mechanism into higher plants: location and incorporation of key components

Plant Biotechnology Journal
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; N. Atkinson; D Feike; MT Meyer; H. Griffiths; LC Mackinder; AM Smith; AJ McCormick
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Martin Jonikas

Molecular techniques to interrogate and edit the Chlamydomonas nuclear genome

The Plant Journal
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; RE Jinkerson
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Martin Jonikas

Photosynthetic Acclimation and Increased Biomass Production in Fluctuating Light Environments

2015 | Patent
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; U Armbruster; KK Niyogi
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Martin Jonikas

Actin is Required for IFT Regulation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Current Biology
2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; P Avasthi; M Onishi; J Karpiak; R Yamamoto; L Mackinder; WS Sale; B Shoichet; JR Pringle; WF Marshall
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Martin Jonikas

Alternative Acetate Production Pathways in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii during Dark Anoxia and the Dominant Role of Chloroplasts in Fermentative Acetate Production

The Plant Cell
2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; W Yang; C Catalanotti; S D'Adamo; TM Wittkopp; CJ Ingram-Smith; L Mackinder; TE Miller; AL Heuberger; G Peers et al.
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Martin Jonikas

High-Throughput Genotyping of Green Algal Mutants Reveals Random Distribution of Mutagenic Insertion Sites and Endonucleolytic Cleavage of Transforming DNA

The Plant Cell
2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; R Zhang; W Patena; U Armbruster; SS Gang; SR Blum
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Martin Jonikas

Ion Antiport Accelerates Photosynthetic Acclimation in Fluctuating Light Environments

Nature Communications
2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; U Armbruster; LR Carrillo; K Venema; L Pavlovic; E Schmidtmann; A Kornfeld; P Jahns; JA Berry; DM Kramer
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Martin Jonikas

Waking Sleeping Algal Cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; X Li; JG Umen
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Martin Jonikas

Automated Identification of Pathways from Quantitative Genetic Interaction Data

Molecular Systems Biology
2010 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; A Battle; P Walter; JS Weissman; D Koller
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Martin Jonikas

J Domain Co-Chaperone Specificity Defines the Role of BiP During Protein Translocation

Journal of Biological Chemistry
2010 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; SS Vembar; LM Hendershot; JS Weissman; JL Brodsky
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Martin Jonikas

Comprehensive Characteristics of Genes Required for Protein Folding in the Endoplasmic Reticulum

Science
2009 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; SR Collins; V Denic; E Oh; EM Quan; V Schmid; J Weibezahn; B Schwappach; P Walter; JS Weissman et al.
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Martin Jonikas

Identification of Yeast Proteins Necessary for Cell-Surface Function of a Potassium Channel

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
2007 | Journal article
Contributors: Martin Jonikas; FA Haass; P. Walter; JS Weissman; YN Jan; M. Schuldiner
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Martin Jonikas

Peer review (8 reviews for 3 publications/grants)

Review activity for Cell. (2)
Review activity for Nature (4)
Review activity for Plant physiology. (2)