POSITION
Assistant Professor, Oceanography

ASTROBIOLOGY RESEARCH AREAS
Origin & Evolution of Life on Earth
Life in Extreme Environments

EMAIL
youngjn@uw.edu

PHONE
(206) 543-0744

OFFICE
OSB 513

WEBPAGE
https://www.younglab-uw.com/

CV
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BVR31mEfRUgxY59F8fXAkl5jtSgvaF3-/view

Jodi Young

Photosynthesis is an important sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide. Half of this photosynthesis occurs in the ocean by single-celled algae called phytoplankton.

The Young Lab investigates the physiological adaptations in phytoplankton to optimize their productivity. The aim is to better predict how phytoplankton productivity and thus their ability to capture carbon dioxide will respond to future change. There are two main research themes: (1) to identify and understand adaptations to extreme environments, such as the polar oceans, and (2) to examine the adaptation and co-evolution of the carbon fixing enzyme, Rubisco, and carbon concentrating mechanisms (CCMs). See here for more details.

Current Students:

Selected Publications

Heureux, A.M.C., Young, J.N., Whitney, S.M, Eason-Hubbard, M.R., Lee, R. B. Y., Sharwood, R., Rickaby, R.E.M. (2017) The Role of Rubisco kinetics and pyrenoid morphology in shaping the CCM of Haptophyte microalgae” Journal of Experimental Botany erx179

Young, J.N, Hopkinson, B.M. (2017) The potential for co-evolution of CO2 concentrating mechanisms and RubisCO in diatoms. Journal of Experimental Botany erx130

Young, J.N., Heureux, A.M.C., Sharwood, R.E., Rickaby, R.E.M., Whitney, S.M. (2017) Rubisco extraction and purification from diatoms. Bioprotocols 7(6): e2191

Deming, J.W. and Young, J.N. (2016) The role of expolysaccharides in microbial adaptation to cold habitats, in Psychrophiles: From Biodiversity to Biotechnology, 2nd Edition Ed Rosa Margesin, Springer p259-284

Young, J.N., Heureux, A.M.C., Sharwood, R.E., Rickaby, R.E.M., Whitney, S.M. (2016) The variation in diatom Rubisco kinetics reveals diversity in the efficiency of their carbon concentrating mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Botany, 67(11): 3445-3456. doi:10.1093/jxb/erw163

Young, J. N. & Morel, F. M. M. (2015) Biological oceanography: The CO2 switch in diatoms. Nature Climate Change, 5: 722-723, doi:10.1038/nclimate2691.

Young, J.N., Kranz, S., Goldman, J., Tortell, P.D., Morel, F.M.M. (2015) Under high CO2, Antarctic phytoplankton down-regulate their carbon concentrating mechanisms with no change in growth rates. Marine Ecology Progress Series532: 13-28, doi: 10.3354/meps11336

Young, J.N., Goldman, J., Kranz, S., Tortell, P.D., Morel, F.M.M. (2015) Slow carboxylation of Rubisco constrains the rate of carbon fixation during Antarctic phytoplankton blooms. New Phytologist 205 (1): 172-181. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13021

Goldman, J., Kranz, S., Young, J.N., Tortell, P.D., Bender, M., Morel, F.M.M. (2015) Gross and net production during the spring bloom along the Western Antarctic Peninsula New Phytologist 205 (1): 182-191. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13125.

Kranz, S., Young, J.N., Goldman, J., Tortell, P.D., Bender, M., Morel, F.M.M. (2015) Low temperature reduces the energetic requirement for the CO2 concentrating mechanism in diatoms. New Phytologist 205 (1): 192-201. DOI: 10.1111/nph.12976

Hopkinson, B., Young, J.N., Tanskik, A.L., Binder, B. J. (2014) The minimal CO2 concentrating mechanism of Prochlorococcus (MED4) is effective and efficient. Plant Physiology 166(4):2205-17

Tortell, P.D., Asher, E.C., Dacey, J.W.H. Kranz, S., Young, J.N., Goldman, J. Ducklow, H., Grzymski, J. Stanley, R., Morel, F.M.M. (2014) Metabolic balance of coastal Antarctic waters revealed by autonomous high frequency pCO2 and O2 /Ar measurements Geophysical Research Letters DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061266

Young, J.N., Bruggeman, J. Rickaby, R.E.M., Erez, J., Conte, M. (2013) Evidence of changes in isotopic fractionation by phytoplankton between 1960 and 2010. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 27 DOI:10.1002/gbc.20045

Losh, J., Young, J.N. Morel, F.M (2013) Rubisco is a small fraction of total protein in marine phytoplankton, New Phytologist 198: 52-58

Young, J.N., Rickaby, R.E.M, Kapralov, M., Filatov, D. (2012) Adaptive signals in algal Rubisco reveal a history of ancient atmospheric carbon dioxide. Phil Trans Roy Soc B 267 (1588):483-492

Rickaby, R.E.M., Henderiks, J., Young, J.N. (2010) Perturbing phytoplankton: a tale of isotopic fractionation in two coccolithophore species. Clim. Past Discuss. 6:771-785

Onate-Sanchez, L., Anderson, J.P., Young, J.N., Singh, K.B. (2007) AtERF14, a member of the ERF family of transcription factors, plays a non-redundant role in plant defense. J. Plant Physiology 143:400-409

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