Lauren Hollis

PhD student in the Hüner Lab

Project overview
I am PhD student in the Huner Lab studying the role of the chloroplast as a sensor of environmental change and as a source of signals regulating acclimation. I am interested in the role of this sensor as a regulator of the structure and function of the photosynthetic apparatus associated with acclimation to a variable light environment in the unicellular green alga Chlorella vulgaris.

Specialized skills
Chlorophyll a fluroescence (XE PAM)

Gas exchange (Clarke-type oxygen electrode)

Microscopy and staining

Protein isolation, gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting

Pigment extraction and HPLC

Spectrophotometry