Donald Bryant
- Ernest C. Pollard Professor of Biotechnology
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Email: dab14@psu.edu
- Phone: 814-865-1992
- Campus: University Park
Research interests
- Complete genome analysis of green sulfur bacteria, filamentous anoxygenic bacteria, and cyanobacteria.
- Control of gene expression in cyanobacteria.
- Structure and function of photosynthetic light-harvesting systems (particularly bacterial systems).
- Phycobiliprotein genes-structure, arrangement, and expression.
- Cyanobacterial physiology and molecular biology.
- Protein biochemistry-structure, function, and assembly of proteins.
- Photosystem I.
- Genetics of green sulfur bacteria.
- Chlorosomes.
- Characterization of chlorophyll and carotenoid biosynthesis.
- Biosolar hydrogen production