Institute of Biomedical & Life Science : Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Scientist in Charge:
Prof. Dr. Richard Cogdell
University of Glasgow

We study the highly efficient energy and electron transfer processes in photosynthetic complexes. These investigations help us to understand nature's strategy for interfacing and device integration, and they provide our early state researchers with a profound background in biological and biochemical aspects necessary for this field. The knowledge is exploited by the synthetic chemists in the network to optimize their systems.

Researchers:
Vladimira Moulisova, PhD
Tatas Brotosudarmo, MSc

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Side view of an LH2 purple bacterial light harvesting complex.



Top view of an LH2 purple bacterial light harvesting complex.Proteins (green and cyan) define the respective alignment of the bacteriochlorophyll molecules (purple) giving them optimized absorptive and emissive properties for efficient directional energy transfer.