GSTT SEMINAR: Prof Richard Cogdell, University of Glasgow - Title: 'How purple photosynthetic bacteria harvest solar energy'
1:00pm - 2:00pm /
Monday 17th October 2016
/ Venue: Lecture Theatre 1 Life Sciences Building
- Luning Liu
- Admission: Free
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This lecture will describe the structure and the function of the purple bacterial light harvesting complexes. The purple bacterial photosynthetic unit consists of two types of integral membrane protein light harvesting complexes called LH2 and RC/LH1. Based on high resolution crystal structures of both of these light harvesting complexes coupled with ultra fast measurements of energy transfer, the pathway that takes absorbed light energy from LH2 all the way to the reaction centre will be described. These studies have changed how we understand the molecular details of the primary reactions of photosynthesis.