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We made the cover! Presenting the #photosystem of Gemmatimonas phototrophica, a funky little bacterial alga (the first discovered example of its genus) found in the Gobi desert a little under a decade ago. This one's been quite the journey, so buckle in. (1/) 
What I'd mostly like to talk about is the saga of how this model came to be... but first, a little about what makes it special. At first glance, it's fairly similar to other bacterial photosystems: a central reaction complex (RC) surrounded by a light-harvesting (LH) ring. (2/)
What's brand new here is the way it increases its light-harvesting capacity. All other known photosynthetic bacteria have a single LH ring around the RC (termed LH1), and then make smaller "satellite" rings (LH2) which hang around the edges. (3/)
