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Triplet-state of Bchla in FMO can be modulated by a non-pigment protein in green sulfur bacteria. The research is enabled by molecular biology and molecular spectrophotometry at nano-second scale. The photoprotective role of such process is in progress. 

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c00394

Anna William, a Ph.D student, leads this research of an international collaboration with a U.K. team and a team from UC-Davis, USA, using quantitative mass spectrometry to challenge the paradigm of structural biology.

https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1873-3468.70029

First PSII structure with PsbR in its structural location on the stratal side, resolved a puzzle baffling the community for four decades. 

Read more in Science Adv.

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adq9967

Production of microcystin, a bloom toxin, produced by a cyanobacteria can be inhibited by a benign fast-growing cyanobacteria species. This is where biology and chemical and environmental engineering are in hands

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1461119/full

Fascinated with excitation energy transfer in light harvesting complex using femto-second time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy? Check this out!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005272824000197

Efficient energy transfer from the rod to the core of phycobilisome is enabled by the  pigment less linker domain of ApcE

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cphc.202400933