CMB Training Program
Research in Bioenergetics & Photosynthesis
The Program
Information for Current Trainees
The following CMB Training Program Faculty have research interests in bioenergetics and photosynthesis. Detailed descriptions and representative publications are available by selecting a faculty member's name.
D.R. Bush, Plant Biology, USDA-ARS: control of assimilate partitioning in higher plants; mechanisms of carrier-mediated transport; regulation of transport activity at the protein and gene level.
A. Crofts, Biochemistry, Biophysics: structure/function relationships in photosynthetic energy conversion; structure of membrane proteins, mechanism of energy conservation; photosynthesis in intact plants.
R.B. Gennis, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Biophysics: membrane enzymes involved in energy transduction; electron transport chains in E. coli and Rb. sphaeroides.
D.R. Ort, Plant Biology, USDA-ARS: the molecular and biochemical basis for environmental limitations on photosynthesis; mechanism of photosynthetic energy transduction.
C.A. Wraight, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Plant Biology: Electron and proton transfer in proteins and across membranes; photosynthetic energy transduction; biological redox cofactors; molecular engineering of ligand-protein interactions.
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Enzymology and biological chemistry | Plant molecular biology
Molecular and developmental neurobiology | Bioenergetics and photosynthesis
Prokaryotic molecular biology and physiology | Structural biology
Membrane structure and signal transduction | Immunology
Developmental biology | Gene structure, function, and regulation
Intracellular targeting | Molecular endocrinology
Cytoskeleton, extracellular matrix, and adhesion
