We live on a green planet: how did it happen? This multidisciplinary ERC Consolidator project combines single-cell approaches, evolutionary genomics, microscopy, and spatial proteomics to shed new light on the origin and evolution of plastids. We place a strong emphasis on includ-ing a better sampled diversity by searching for novel uncultured microbial lineages and using algae in culture, to over-come the current limitation of models of plastid evolution.
Fabien Burki (Thu,) studied this question.