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  1. Conservation and evolution of the ribosome across the photosynthetic lineage

    Article • July 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  2. RBMP2 shapes specialized membranes for CO₂ delivery in the pyrenoid condensate

    Article • June 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  3. Mature plant chloroplasts form reversible gyroid cubic membranes

    Article • June 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  4. Coupling of electron-bifurcation modules powers aromatic ring reduction beyond the biological redox window

    Article • April 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  5. Molecular architecture of the ciliary base in mammalian multiciliated cells

    Article • April 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  6. ICECREAM : high-fidelity equivariant cryo-electron tomography

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, March 2026, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  7. Stoic: Fast and accurate protein stoichiometry prediction

    Article • March 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  8. Loss-of-function variants in SAXO6, encoding a microtubule inner protein of photoreceptor cilia, cause a late-onset retinal dystrophy

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, March 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  9. An Advanced Mobile Laboratory to enable field-based microbial ecology and cell biology across scales

    Article • February 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  10. Chloroplast-encoded small subunit extensions reshape the Chlamydomonas chlororibosome

    Article • February 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  11. Sticker number modulates pyrenoid condensate assembly to support algal fitness

    Article • January 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  12. The luminal ring protein C2CD3 acts as a radial in-to-out organizer of the distal centriole and appendages

    Article • PLoS Biology, December 2025, PLOS

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  13. Toward community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Article • Molecular Cell, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  14. Icecream: High-Fidelity Equivariant Cryo-Electron Tomography

    Article • October 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  15. Molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes within intact spinach chloroplasts

    Article • eLife, September 2025, eLife

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  16. The Luminal Ring Protein C2CD3 Acts as a Radial In-to-Out Organizer of the Distal Centriole and Appendages

    Article • June 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  17. In-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain

    Article • Science, March 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  18. Towards community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Article • December 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  19. Molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes within intact spinach chloroplasts

    Article • November 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  20. Evolution of Thylakoid Structural Diversity

    Article • Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, October 2024, Annual Reviews

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  21. A protein blueprint of the diatom CO2-fixing organelle

    Article • Cell, October 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  22. Diatom pyrenoids are encased in a protein shell that enables efficient CO2 fixation

    Article • Cell, October 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  23. In-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  24. The cyanobacterial protein VIPP1 forms ESCRT-III-like structures on lipid bilayers

    Article • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  25. Lighting the way: Compelling open questions in photosynthesis research

    Article • The Plant Cell, July 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  26. Surforama: interactive exploration of volumetric data by leveraging 3D surfaces

    Article • June 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  27. Identification and characterization of the COPII vesicle‐forming GTPase Sar1 in Chlamydomonas

    Article • Plant Direct, June 2024, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  28. Integrating cellular electron microscopy with multimodal data to explore biology across space and time

    Article • Cell, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  29. MemBrain v2: an end-to-end tool for the analysis of membranes in cryo-electron tomography

    Article • January 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  30. A Protein Blueprint of the Diatom CO2-Fixing Organelle

    Article • October 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  31. Diatom pyrenoids are encased in a protein shell that enables efficient CO2fixation

    Article • October 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  32. Cryo-electron tomography sheds light on the elastic nature of theTrypanosoma bruceitripartite attachment complex

    Article • March 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  33. Adipocyte-derived extracellular vesicles increase insulin secretion through transport of insulinotropic protein cargo

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  34. MemBrain: A deep learning-aided pipeline for detection of membrane proteins in Cryo-electron tomograms

    Article • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  35. In situ architecture of the ciliary base reveals the stepwise assembly of intraflagellar transport trains

    Article • Science, July 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  36. Membrane-anchored HDCR nanowires drive hydrogen-powered CO2 fixation

    Article • Nature, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  37. Publisher Correction: Expanding the arsenal of bacterial spearguns

    Article • Nature Microbiology, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  38. Expanding the arsenal of bacterial spearguns

    Article • Nature Microbiology, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  39. MemBrain: A Deep Learning-aided Pipeline for Automated Detection of Membrane Proteins in Cryo-electron Tomograms

    Article • March 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  40. How to build a ribosome from RNA fragments in Chlamydomonas mitochondria

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  41. Author Correction: Deep learning improves macromolecule identification in 3D cellular cryo-electron tomograms

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  42. Deep learning improves macromolecule identification in 3D cellular cryo-electron tomograms

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  43. In situ architecture of the ciliary base reveals the stepwise assembly of IFT trains

    Article • October 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  44. Structural basis for VIPP1 oligomerization and maintenance of thylakoid membrane integrity

    Article • Cell, July 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  45. The Chlamydomonas mitochondrial ribosome: how to build a ribosome from RNA fragments

    Article • May 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  46. Chlorophyll biogenesis sees the light

    Article • Nature Plants, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  47. Structural insights into photosystem II assembly

    Article • Nature Plants, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel, Emad Tajkhorshid

  48. Architecture of the centriole cartwheel‐containing region revealed by cryo‐electron tomography

    Article • The EMBO Journal, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  49. How to build a water-splitting machine: structural insights into photosystem II assembly

    Article • September 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel, Emad Tajkhorshid

  50. The Structural Basis of Rubisco Phase Separation in the Pyrenoid

    Article • August 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  51. Structural basis for VIPP1 oligomerization and maintenance of thylakoid membrane integrity

    Article • August 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  52. The architecture of the centriole cartwheel-containing region revealed by cryo-electron tomography

    Article • July 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  53. Deep Learning Improves Macromolecule Identification in 3D Cellular Cryo-Electron Tomograms

    Article • April 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  54. Charting the native architecture of Chlamydomonas thylakoid membranes with single-molecule precision

    Article • eLife, April 2020, eLife

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  55. VIPP2 interacts with VIPP1 and HSP22E/F at chloroplast membranes and modulates a retrograde signal for HSP22E/F gene expression

    Article • Plant Cell & Environment, February 2020, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  56. A helical inner scaffold provides a structural basis for centriole cohesion

    Article • Science Advances, February 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  57. Direct visualization of degradation microcompartments at the ER membrane

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  58. The elusive actin cytoskeleton of a green alga expressing both conventional and divergent actins

    Article • Molecular Biology of the Cell, October 2019, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  59. Charting the native architecture of thylakoid membranes with single-molecule precision

    Article • September 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  60. A cryo-FIB lift-out technique enables molecular-resolution cryo-ET within native Caenorhabditis elegans tissue

    Article • Nature Chemical Biology, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  61. VIPP1 rods engulf membranes containing phosphatidylinositol phosphates

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  62. Biogenic regions of cyanobacterial thylakoids form contact sites with the plasma membrane

    Article • Nature Plants, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  63. The elusive actin cytoskeleton of a green alga expressing both conventional and divergent actins

    Article • February 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  64. Frozen‐hydrated chromatin from metaphase chromosomes has an interdigitated multilayer structure

    Article • The EMBO Journal, January 2019, EMBO

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  65. Structural adaptations of photosynthetic complex I enable ferredoxin-dependent electron transfer

    Article • Science, December 2018, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  66. Structure of the membrane-assembled retromer coat determined by cryo-electron tomography

    Article • Nature, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  67. mTORC1 Controls Phase Separation and the Biophysical Properties of the Cytoplasm by Tuning Crowding

    Article • Cell, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  68. In situ architecture of the algal nuclear pore complex

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  69. Proteasomes tether to two distinct sites at the nuclear pore complex

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  70. In situ architecture of the algal nuclear pore complex

    Article • December 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  71. The structure of the COPI coat determined within the cell

    Article • eLife, November 2017, eLife

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  72. The Eukaryotic CO 2 -Concentrating Organelle Is Liquid-like and Exhibits Dynamic Reorganization

    Article • Cell, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  73. Pea PSII-LHCII supercomplexes form pairs by making connections across the stromal gap

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2017, Nature

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  74. Dissecting the molecular organization of the translocon-associated protein complex

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2017, Nature

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  75. mTORC1 controls phase-separation and the biophysical properties of the cytoplasm by tuning crowding

    Article • February 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  76. Optimized cryo-focused ion beam sample preparation aimed at in situ structural studies of membrane proteins

    Article • Journal of Structural Biology, July 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  77. In Situ Cryo-Electron Tomography: A Post-Reductionist Approach to Structural Biology

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  78. In situ structural analysis of Golgi intracisternal protein arrays

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  79. Native architecture of the Chlamydomonas chloroplast revealed by in situ cryo-electron tomography

    Article • eLife, January 2015, eLife

    Dr Benjamin D Engel, Cristina Capitanio

  80. Cryo-focused Ion Beam Sample Preparation for Imaging Vitreous Cells by Cryo-electron Tomography

    Article • BIO-PROTOCOL, January 2015, Bio-Protocol, LLC

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  81. Getting tubulin to the tip of the cilium: One IFT train, many different tubulin cargo-binding sites?

    Article • BioEssays, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  82. Intraflagellar transport drives flagellar surface motility

    Article • eLife, June 2013, eLife

    Professor Arne Gennerich, Dr Benjamin D Engel, Professor Ahmet Yildiz

  83. Intraflagellar transport complex structure and cargo interactions

    Article • Cilia, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  84. The role of retrograde intraflagellar transport in flagellar assembly, maintenance, and function

    Article • Journal of Cell Biology, October 2012, Rockefeller University Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  85. Structural Studies of Ciliary Components

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, September 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  86. Integrative Approaches for Cellular Cryo-electron Tomography

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  87. A cell-based screen for inhibitors of flagella-driven motility in Chlamydomonas reveals a novel modulator of ciliary length and retrograde actin flow

    Article • Cytoskeleton, March 2011, Wiley

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  88. How Sequence Determines Elasticity of Disordered Proteins

    Article • Biophysical Journal, December 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  89. Intraflagellar transport particle size scales inversely with flagellar length: revisiting the balance-point length control model

    Article • Journal of Cell Biology, October 2009, Rockefeller University Press

    Dr Benjamin D Engel

  90. Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) Microscopy of Chlamydomonas Flagella

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Benjamin D Engel