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Application of time-resolved fluorescence and absorption suggested that  spontaneous oligomerization of the pigmented FMO with enhanced quenching capabilities which are essentially required during PscB’s recruiting of FMO trimers and sandwiching them between chlorosome and the membrane-embedded RCs.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11120-025-01172-3

At 77 K, upon transition from State I to State II the EET rate from APC680 to PSII is constant, whereas the rate to PSI increases by 67%. This research highlights that a structural change in EET distance in the PBS-PSII-PSI megacomplex underlies the state transition. 

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)00871-5

These findings highlight excitation energy transfer integrity in LHC-PSII assembly is not only determined by the pigmented light-harvesting complexes, but also synergistically by the nonpigmented PSII components. 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11120-025-01153-6

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