Robert Blankenship
Washington University in St. Louis
Current Projects
- Task A: Solar System Analogs for Extrasolar Planetary Processes and Observations — 2016 NAI
- The Long Wavelength Limit of Oxygenic Photosynthesis — 2015 NAI
- Global Surface Biosignatures: Reflectance Spectra of Anoxygenic Phototrophs and Cyanobacteria — 2015 NAI
- Astronomical Biosignatures, False Positives for Life, and Implications for Future Space Telescopes — 2015 NAI
- The Long Wavelength Limit of Oxygenic Photosynthesis — 2014 NAI
- The Long Wavelength Limit of Oxygenic Photosynthesis — 2013 NAI
- Genetic Evolution and the Origin of Life — 2013 NAI
- The Long Wavelength Limit for Oxygenic Photosynthesis — 2012 NAI
- Postdoctoral Fellow Report: Steven Mielke — 2012 NAI
- Stromatolites in the Desert: Analogs to Other Worlds — 2012 NAI
- Stromatolites in the Desert: Analogs to Other Worlds — 2011 NAI
- Postdoctoral Fellow Report: Steven Mielke — 2011 NAI
- The Long Wavelength Limit for Oxygenic Photosynthesis — 2011 NAI
- Thermodynamic Efficiency of Electron-Transfer Reactions in the Chlorophyll D-Containing Cyanobacterium, Acharyochloris Marina — 2010 NAI
- Postdoctoral Fellow Report: Steven Mielke — 2010 NAI
- Postdoctoral Fellow Report: Steven Mielke — 2009 NAI
- Thermodynamic Efficiency of Electron-Transfer Reactions in the Chlorophyll D-Containing Cyanobacterium, Acharyochloris Marina — 2009 NAI
- The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - The Life Modules - Photosynthesis — 2008 NAI
- The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - The Life Modules — 2006 NAI
- Origin and Early Evolution of Photosynthesis — 2002 NAI
- Origin and Early Evolution of Photosynthesis — 2001 NAI
- Exploring the Living Universe: Origin, Evolution and Distribution of Life in the Solar System — 2000 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
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Publications
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Mielke, S. P., Kiang, N. Y., Blankenship, R. E., & Mauzerall, D. (2013). Photosystem trap energies and spectrally-dependent energy-storage efficiencies in the Chl d-utilizing cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Bioenergetics, 1827(3), 255–265. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.11.002
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Mielke, S. P., Kiang, N. Y., Blankenship, R. E., Gunner, M. R., & Mauzerall, D. (2011). Efficiency of photosynthesis in a Chl d-utilizing cyanobacterium is comparable to or higher than that in Chl a-utilizing oxygenic species. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Bioenergetics, 1807(9), 1231–1236. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.06.007
See Project See Project See Project See Project - Kiang, N.Y., Mielke, S., Mauzerall, D., Blankenship, R.E. & Gunner, M. (2009). Efficiency of photon energy use for life processes: implications for spectral biosignatures [Public Talk November 19, 2009]. Center for Exoplanet Science Colloquium. See Project
- Mielke, S.P., Kiang, N.Y., Blankenship, R.E. & Mauzerall, D. (2011). Efficiency of oxygenic photosynthesis in the far red light-utilizing cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina. Origins 2011: ISSOL and Bioastronomy Joint International Conference. Montpellier, France. See Project
- Mielke, S.P., Kiang, N.Y., Blankenship, R.E. & Mauzerall, D. (In Preparation). Wavelength-dependence of the in vivo energy-storage efficiency in the cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina. See Project
- Mielke, S.P., Kiang, N.Y., Blankenship, R.E., Gunner, M.R. & Mauzerall, D. (2010). Photosynthetic Electron-Transfer in the Cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris Marina. LPI Contributions, 1538: 5438. See Project
- Mielke, S.P., Kiang, N.Y., Blankenship, R.E., Gunner, M.R., Dong, M. & Mauzerall, D. (2011). Efficiency of photosynthesis in the Chl d-utilizing cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina. At the Interface of Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. See Project
- Mielke, S.P., Kiang, N.Y., Blankenship, R.E., Gunner, M.R., Dong, M. & Mauzerall, D. (2012). Photosynthetic energy-storage in the cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina: Oxygenic photochemistry at the red edge. AbSciCon 2012 – Exploring Life: Past and Present, Near and Far. Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA. See Project
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Email:
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Discipline
Chemistry