Electricity Production by Photosynthetic Microorganisms

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Download : Download high-res image (424KB) Download : Download full-size image Christopher Howe is Professor of Plant and Microbial Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1983 for work on the chloroplast genome of wheat. His lab continues to study chloroplast genomes, especially those of unicellular eukaryotes, but also works on photosynthetic electron transfer chains and the biotechnological exploitation of photosynthetic microorganisms. The lab has worked on direct electricity production by photosynthetic microorganisms since the early 2000s, with the joint aims of enhancing power output for real-world applications and understanding the underlying biology of the systems. Download : Download high-res image (250KB) Download : Download full-size image Paolo Bombelli is a research scientist in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Milan (Italy) and a visiting researcher in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge (UK). He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2012 for work on the fundamental principles of photo-bio-electrochemistry. Since then, he has gathered around him a team of collaborators from several leading research groups, industrial partners, and non-profit organizations. By combining biology, materials science, and engineering, his long-term goal is to translate the fundamental principles of photo-bio-electrochemistry into practical applications.