Exploring Photosynthetic Protein Complexes: Structure, Dynamics, Regulation

We aim to track how the excitation energy transfer in light-harvesting complexes is regulated and how they transmit it to the reaction centers where photochemistry takes place using molecular spectroscopy 

Our team is passionate about the structure of the photosynthetic pigment protein complexes at atomic level using various tools, cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography, mass spectrometry

We tend to answer if the labile photoproctection mechanism in Symbiodinium, the coral symbiont, is involved in triggering the expelling of the algal cells and subsequently coral bleaching. 

We use quantitative and structural mass spectrometry to interrogate the structural and dynamic synergy across the thylakoid membrane, extrinsic, intrinsic proteins/domains.