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Core MCB Faculty Profiles: Photosynthesis

• James Allen, Associate Professor (Chemistry and Biochemistry); Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982. Structural biophysics in photosynthesis; X-ray crystallography.
  
• Robert E. Blankenship, Professor (Chemistry and Biochemistry); Ph.D., Berkeley, 1975. Biophysics of photosynthesis; biological electron transfer reactions; evolution of energy conserving systems.
  
• Wayne D. Frasch, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Kentucky, 1979. The mechanism of the F1-ATPase molecular motor probed by molecular genetics, and by microscopy to view rotation of single enzyme subunits; biophysical studies of the participation of the metal cofactor in the F1-ATPase mechanism.
  
• J. Kenneth Hoober, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Michigan, 1965. Biogenesis of chloroplast membranes; photoregulation of gene expression in plants and bacteria; role of proteases in development of cell structure.
  
• Willem F. J. Vermaas, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D, Agricultural University (Netherlands), 1984. Functional genomics of photosynthesis and respiration; protein engineering and metabolic engineering; pigment biosynthesis; molecular genetics of cyanobacteria.
  
• Andrew N. Webber, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Essex (England), 1984. Synthesis and assembly of photosynthetic membrane protein complexes; chloroplast transformation and gene regulation; plant molecular biology.
  
• Neal Woodbury, Associate Professor (Chemistry and Biochemistry); Ph.D., Washington (Seattle), 1986. Specific mutagenesis of bacterial reaction centers; ultrafast spectroscopy of energy and electron transfer in photosynthesis; single molecule spectroscopy of DNA/protein interactions; directed evolution of green fluorescent protein based biosensors.

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