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Donald A. Bryant

Pennsylvania State University · US
Area of research
Molecular Biology · Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Research interest
Research interests include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Algal biology and biofuel production, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.
h-index
92
citations
29,404
works
512
NIH funding
primary concept
Biology
email

Recent publications

Mid-day photomixotrophy by <i>Roseiflexus</i> spp. and implications for the <sup>13</sup>C content of hot spring cyanobacterial mats.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Cryptic cycling by electroactive bacterioplankton in Trout Bog Lake.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
The structural basis for light harvesting in organisms producing phycobiliproteins.
2024cited by 24position: contributordoi
An integrated approach towards extracting structural characteristics of chlorosomes from a <i>bchQ</i> mutant of <i>Chlorobaculum tepidum</i>
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2024cited by 13position: middledoi
An integrated approach towards extracting structural characteristics of chlorosomes from a <i>bchQ</i> mutant of <i>Chlorobaculum tepidum</i>.
2024cited by 6position: contributordoi
Cryptic cycling by electroactive bacterioplankton in Trout Bog Lake
2024cited by 0position: contributordoi
Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics
Nature 2023cited by 192position: middledoi
A structure of the relict phycobilisome from a thylakoid-free cyanobacterium
Nature Communications 2023cited by 30position: middledoi
A structure of the relict phycobilisome from a thylakoid-free cyanobacterium.
2023cited by 23position: contributordoi
Helical allophycocyanin nanotubes absorb far-red light in a thermophilic cyanobacterium.
2023cited by 22position: contributordoi
Loss of Biliverdin Reductase Increases Oxidative Stress in the Cyanobacterium <i>Synechococcus</i> sp. PCC 7002.
2023cited by 1position: contributordoi
Author Correction: A structure of the relict phycobilisome from a thylakoid-free cyanobacterium.
2023cited by 0position: contributordoi
Light Energy Transduction in Green Sulfur Bacteria
2023cited by 0position: contributordoi
Structure of a monomeric photosystem II core complex from a cyanobacterium acclimated to far-red light reveals the functions of chlorophylls d and f
Journal of Biological Chemistry 2022cited by 55position: contributordoi
Structure of a photosystem I-ferredoxin complex from a marine cyanobacterium provides insights into far-red light photoacclimation
Journal of Biological Chemistry 2022cited by 35position: contributordoi
Molecular Evolution of Far-Red Light-Acclimated Photosystem II.
2022cited by 22position: contributordoi
Changes in supramolecular organization of cyanobacterial thylakoid membrane complexes in response to far-red light photoacclimation.
2022cited by 19position: contributordoi
Acclimation of the photosynthetic apparatus to low light in a thermophilic Synechococcus sp. strain.
2022cited by 12position: contributordoi
Adaptation of Cyanobacteria to the Endolithic Light Spectrum in Hyper-Arid Deserts.
2022cited by 9position: contributordoi
Use of Quartz Sand Columns to Study Far-Red Light Photoacclimation (FaRLiP) in Cyanobacteria.
2022cited by 8position: contributordoi
Host population diversity as a driver of viral infection cycle in wild populations of green sulfur bacteria with long standing virus-host interactions.
2021cited by 25position: contributordoi
The structural basis of far-red light absorbance by allophycocyanins.
2021cited by 24position: contributordoi
Author Correction: A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes
Nature Biotechnology 2021cited by 19position: middledoi
<i>Elioraea tepida,</i> sp. nov., a Moderately Thermophilic Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium Isolated from the Mat Community of an Alkaline Siliceous Hot Spring in Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA.
2021cited by 5position: contributordoi
Carotenoid biomarkers in Namibian shelf sediments: Anoxygenic photosynthesis during sulfide eruptions in the Benguela Upwelling System.
2021cited by 4position: contributordoi
Correction to: Characterization of cyanobacterial allophycocyanins absorbing far-red light.
2021cited by 0position: contributordoi
A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes
Nature Biotechnology 2020cited by 962position: middledoi
Biosynthesis of the modified tetrapyrroles-the pigments of life.
2020cited by 160position: contributordoi
The structure of Photosystem I acclimated to far-red light illuminates an ecologically important acclimation process in photosynthesis.
2020cited by 60position: contributordoi
Niche expansion for phototrophic sulfur bacteria at the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic transition
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020cited by 55position: middledoi

Grants

Acclimation Responses that Optimize the Photosynthetic Apparatus in Cyanobacteria: from Ecophysiology to Biophysics
NSF1613022$1,900,0002016–2022PIRePORTER
Type-1 Photochemical Reaction Centers: Paradigm, Variations, and Applications
NSF1021725$1,774,0002010–2016PIRePORTER
Photosystem I: Biogenesis, Broken Symmetry, and Hydrogenase Chimeras
NSF0519743$1,241,0002005–2010PIRePORTER
Microbial Genome Sequencing: Complete Genome Sequences of Green Bacteria
NSF0523100$822,0382005–2009PIRePORTER
Structure, Function and Biogenesis of Cyanobacterial Photosystem I
NSF0077586$660,0002000–2005PIRePORTER
Structural and Functional Analysis of Photosystem I: Molecular Biological and Physico-Chemical Studies
NSF9723469$289,1241997–2001PIRePORTER
Structural and Functional Analysis of Photosystem I
NSF9206851$423,0001992–1998PIRePORTER
Genes for Photosystems Components in Cyanobacteria and Cyanelles
NSF8818997$238,4001989–1993PIRePORTER
Genes for Photosystems Components in Cyanobacteria and Cyanelles
NSF8504294$119,0001986–1989PIRePORTER
U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Cyanobacterial Molecular Genetics
NSF8514249$8,1101986–1989PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 33 papers (2019–2025)Gaozhong Shen · University of Fort Hare11 papers (2019–2023)Christopher J. Gisriel · Arizona State University8 papers (2020–2024)Ming-Yang Ho · Michigan State University7 papers (2020–2023)G W Brudvig · National Taiwan University5 papers (2020–2023)Katherine D. McMahon · University of Wisconsin System3 papers (2021–2025)Roger E. Summons · Massachusetts Institute of Technology3 papers (2020–2021)Charles N. Olmsted · University of Wisconsin–Madison3 papers (2021–2025)Jimin Wang · Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry3 papers (2020–2022)David A. Flesher · Arizona State University3 papers (2022–2023)Marcus Tank · Pennsylvania State University2 papers (2014–2018)Xingqian Cui · Shanghai Jiao Tong University2 papers (2020–2021)Nathan T. Soulier · University of California, San Diego2 papers (2020–2023)Cheng-Han Yang · Fu Jen Catholic University2 papers (2023–2023)Istvan Albert · Pennsylvania State University2 papers (2020–2021)Jian Ma · Beijing Normal University2 papers (2020–2021)Fay-Wei Li · Cornell University2 papers (2023–2023)Han-Wei Jiang · National Taiwan University2 papers (2023–2023)John H. Golbeck · Indiana University Bloomington2 papers (2020–2022)Meng-Chiao Ho · Academia Sinica2 papers (2023–2023)