Photosynthetic Membrane (eBook)

Professor Alexander V. Ruban, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Professor Ruban is a Professor in Biophysics at Queen Mary University of London and holds a 'Professeur des Universites (Biochimie et biologie moleculaire)' title awarded by the French Ministry of Education. He obtained his PhD at the Institute of Plant Physiology at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine. His research has been instrumental in the discovery of the molecular basis of photoprotection in LHCII and the in vivo configuration and dynamics of higher plant xanthophylls in the thylakoid membrane. The Ruban Lab at Queen Mary is engaged in mechanistic photosynthesis research with a multidisciplinary approach applies molecular spectroscopy, biophysics and biochemistry to important problems in plant physiology, specifically, the role of the various components (proteins, lipids, pigments) and macrostructure in the functions and adaptive mechanisms of the photosynthetic membrane related to light harvesting and photoprotection in plants and algae. In addition, professor Ruban is interested in the universal properties of carotenoids in biological membranes, the molecular dynamics of these molecules in the modulation of membrane protein conformation and their functions.

"I strongly recommend ''The Photosynthetic
Membrane'', by Alexander Ruban, to all the advanced
undergraduate and graduate students and even researchers of Plant
Biology, Plant Sciences, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular
Biology, Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Further, all
libraries around the World must acquire a copy of this book for
their students and teaching faculty. It is indeed a beautiful and
refreshing book at a time when we are just too busy with only
technical aspects of a problem." (Photosynth
Res, 27 May 2014)

"The Photosynthetic Membrane: Molecular Mechanisms of
Light Harvesting will appeal to a wide audience of undergraduate
and postgraduate students as well as researchers working in the
fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, biophysics, plant
science and bioengineering." (Biotechnology,
Agronomy, Society, Environment, 1 December 2012)