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“The
art of taming light: What we can learn
from a
bacterium… and beyond”
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Thursday, 31. May 2018 |
Video-Recording for any system with MP4-support
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15:15 – 16:35 |
Lene Vestergaard Hau
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Abstract :
We love to
manipulate light and have realized that we have a kindred soul in the form of a
small bacterium -
the cyanobacterium - whose light manipulations result in photosynthesis.
This bacterium is
in some ways amazing at manipulating light and in some ways…
well not so much.
But the system is modular and remarkably, the workings of the ‘best’
part of the
system were discovered only in recent years but are still not not fully
understood.
Involved is an
enzyme with the capability to perform light driven electrolysis and production
of the oxygen in
the atmosphere. Our interest in this system has led us to develop a new
platform for
studies of biomolecules at the single molecule level. I will discuss this
platform
and its potential
for studies of photosynthetic enzymes and of proteins more generally.