{"667490":{"#nid":"667490","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Scientists engineer the first light-powered yeast","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYeast are carb lovers, sustaining themselves by fermenting sugars and starches from sources such as dough, grapes, and grains, with bread, wine, and beer as happy byproducts. Now, researchers have made one type of yeast a little less dependent on carbs by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2022.12.06.519405v2\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eenabling it to use light as energy\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;The work, reported last week on the preprint server bioRxiv, is \u201cthe first step in more complex modes of engineering artificial photosynthesis,\u201d says Magdalena Rose Osburn, a geobiologist at Northwestern University who was not involved in the research. The study\u0027s four co-authors are all with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECenter for Microbial Dynamics and Infection\u003C\/a\u003E: Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/autumn-peterson-55b063221?trk=public_profile_samename-profile\u0022\u003EAutumn Peterson\u003C\/a\u003E, senior scientist and grant writer \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/carina-baskett\u0022\u003ECarina Baskett\u003C\/a\u003E; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWill Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor and co-director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E; and research scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anthony-burnetti-a75394bb\u0022\u003EAnthony Burnetti\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYeast are carb lovers, sustaining themselves by fermenting sugars and starches from sources such as dough, grapes, and grains, with bread, wine, and beer as happy byproducts. Now, researchers have made one type of yeast a little less dependent on carbs by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2022.12.06.519405v2\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eenabling it to use light as energy\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;The work, reported last week on the preprint server bioRxiv, is \u201cthe first step in more complex modes of engineering artificial photosynthesis,\u201d says Magdalena Rose Osburn, a geobiologist at Northwestern University who was not involved in the research. The study\u0027s four co-authors are all with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECenter for Microbial Dynamics and Infection\u003C\/a\u003E: Ph.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/autumn-peterson-55b063221?trk=public_profile_samename-profile\u0022\u003EAutumn Peterson\u003C\/a\u003E, senior scientist and grant writer \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/carina-baskett\u0022\u003ECarina Baskett\u003C\/a\u003E; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWill Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor and co-director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E; and research scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anthony-burnetti-a75394bb\u0022\u003EAnthony Burnetti\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-04-24 14:19:02","changed_gmt":"2023-04-24 14:19:02","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Science","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/scientists-engineer-first-light-powered-yeast","dateline":{"date":"2023-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"170334","name":"yeast"},{"id":"192548","name":"carbs"},{"id":"18531","name":"photosynthesis"},{"id":"108591","name":"Will Ratcliff"},{"id":"192549","name":"Autumn Peterson"},{"id":"192005","name":"Carina Baskett"},{"id":"192550","name":"Anthony Burnetti"},{"id":"183920","name":"Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}