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Photosynthetic Light Harvesting

 

Photosynthesis provides almost all the energy for life on Earth. Photosynthetic Light Harvesting describes the strategy employed by Nature to capture sunlight over a wide spectral and spatial cross-section using antenna pigments-proteins (e.g. LH2, PSI) and very efficiently funnel this energy to a photochemical trap (the reaction center, RC).

Our Group studies the excitation energy transfer that occurs in photosynthesis in both bacterial and plant complexes as well as a light-harvesting complex called Peridinin-Chlorophyll-Protein (PCP) from dinoflagellates.

Image below taken from the Barber group webpage: www.bio.ic.ac.uk/research/barber