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About
Frej Tulin is a cell biologist whose research sits at the intersection of cell cycle regulation and algal genetics, with a particular focus on understanding fundamental eukaryotic biology through the model organism *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii*. Tulin's most influential contribution, a 2014 study garnering 75 citations, challenged the assumption that canonical cell cycle control mechanisms — well-established in yeast and animals — apply uniformly across all eukaryotes. By developing an efficient experimental pipeline using the green alga *Chlamydomonas*, Tulin and colleagues opened a compelling "microbial avenue" into understanding how early-diverging members of the plant superkingdom regulate cell division, revealing potentially distinct evolutionary solutions to a universal biological problem. Building on this foundation, Tulin also pioneered high-throughput, robotically assisted methods for isolating temperature-sensitive lethal mutants in *Chlamydomonas*, producing a valuable collection of approximately 70 such strains that enable the study of essential genes otherwise inaccessible through standard deletion approaches. This methodological innovation, documented in multiple 2016 publications, offers the broader research community a powerful genetic toolkit for dissecting essential cellular pathways in photosynthetic eukaryotes.
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- 1A Microbial Avenue to Cell Cycle Control in the Plant Superkingdom75 citations · 2014
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