Biology Department Seminar

"Coping with the Stress of Solar Energy, a Conserved Bacterial Response to the Reactive Oxygen Species Singlet Oxygen (1O2)"

Presented by Timothy Donohue, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Bacteriology Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 11:00 am — John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463

Reactive oxygen species are known to destroy many biomolecules, cause debilitating diseases, function as part of host defense mechanisms to microbial pathogens, and regulate gene expression. Singlet oxygen (1O2) is a reactive oxygen species formed by all photosynthetic organisms that limits the productivity of solar energy conservation. We are studying how cells sense, respond to, and protect themselves from the lethal effects of 1O2. Singlet oxygen can also be generated by other reactions in non-photosynthetic cells; so it is not surprising that we predict the presence of a similar response in bacteria of environmental, agricultural or medical importance.

Hosted by: Carl Anderson

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