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Chemistry

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ASM D.C. White Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Donald A. Bryant is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Plant Science.

Their scientific contributions have centered on several key topics, including:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Donald A. Bryant has published extensively, with frequent appearances in venues such as the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Photosynthesis Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Donald A. Bryant include:

  • "A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes," 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • "Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages," 2022, Cell
  • "Biosynthesis of the modified tetrapyrroles-the pigments of life," 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics," 2023, Nature
  • "The structure of Photosystem I acclimated to far-red light illuminates an ecologically important acclimation process in photosynthesis," 2020, Science Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Donald A. Bryant include:

  • Lila M. Gierasch
  • F. Peter Guengerich
  • Ruma Banerjee
  • Roger Colbran
  • Peter Cresswell

The scientist has been recognized by professional associations, having received the ASM D.C. White Award from the American Society for Microbiology in 2018 and was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • The Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria

    Donald A. Bryant

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Prokaryotic photosynthesis and phototrophy illuminated

    Donald A. Bryant;Niels Ulrik Frigaard

  • Unexpected diversity and complexity of the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat.

    Ruth E. Ley;J. Kirk Harris;Joshua Wilcox;John R. Spear

  • Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum: an aerobic phototrophic Acidobacterium.

    Donald A. Bryant;Amaya M. Garcia Costas;Julia A. Maresca;Aline Gomez Maqueo Chew

  • The structure of cyanobacterial phycobilisomes: a model

    Donald A. Bryant;Gérard Guglielmi;Nicole Tandeau de Marsac;Anne Marie Castets

  • Extensive remodeling of a cyanobacterial photosynthetic apparatus in far-red light

    Fei Gan;Shuyi Zhang;Nathan C. Rockwell;Shelley S. Martin

  • The tricarboxylic acid cycle in cyanobacteria.

    Shuyi Zhang;Donald Ashley Bryant;Donald Ashley Bryant

  • The complete genome sequence of Chlorobium tepidum TLS, a photosynthetic, anaerobic, green-sulfur bacterium.

    Jonathan A. Eisen;Karen E. Nelson;Ian T. Paulsen;John F. Heidelberg

  • Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages

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  • Alternating syn-anti bacteriochlorophylls form concentric helical nanotubes in chlorosomes

    Swapna Ganapathy;Gert T. Oostergetel;Piotr K. Wawrzyniak;Michael Reus

  • Type IV pilus biogenesis and motility in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803.

    Devaki Bhaya;Nicole R. Bianco;Donald Bryant;Arthur Grossman

  • Chlorophyll biosynthesis in bacteria: the origins of structural and functional diversity.

    Aline Gomez Maqueo Chew;Donald Ashley Bryant

  • Phycoerythrocyanin and Phycoerythrin: Properties and Occurrence in Cyanobacteria

    Donald A. Bryant

  • Biosynthesis of the modified tetrapyrroles—the pigments of life

    Donald A. Bryant;Donald A. Bryant;C. Neil Hunter;Martin J. Warren;Martin J. Warren

  • Highly Divergent Methyltransferases Catalyze a Conserved Reaction in Tocopherol and Plastoquinone Synthesis in Cyanobacteria and Photosynthetic Eukaryotes

    Zigang Cheng;Scott Sattler;Hiroshi Maeda;Yumiko Sakuragi

  • Characterization and structural properties of the major biliproteins of Anabaena sp.

    Donald A. Bryant;Alexander N. Glazer;Frederick A. Eiserling

  • Mechanisms and Evolution of Oxidative Sulfur Metabolism in Green Sulfur Bacteria

    Lea Haarup Gregersen;Donald A Bryant;Niels-Ulrik Frigaard

  • Synechococcus sp. Strain PCC 7002 Transcriptome: Acclimation to Temperature, Salinity, Oxidative Stress, and Mixotrophic Growth Conditions.

    Marcus Ludwig;Donald A. Bryant

  • Nucleotide sequence of the cyanelle genome from Cyanophora paradoxa

    Veronica L. Stirewalt;Christine B. Michalowski;Wolfgang Löffelhardt;Hans J. Bohnert

  • Recruitment of a Foreign Quinone into the A1 Site of Photosystem I I. GENETIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PHYLLOQUINONE BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY MUTANTS IN SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803

    T. Wade Johnson;Gaozhong Shen;Boris Zybailov;Derrick Kolling

  • PsaD is required for the stable binding of PsaC to the photosystem I core protein of Synechococcus sp. PCC 6301.

    Ning Li;Jindong Zhao;Patrick V. Warren;Joseph T. Warden

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Golbeck
John H. Golbeck Pennsylvania State University
Gaozhong Shen
Gaozhong Shen Pennsylvania State University
David M. Ward
David M. Ward Montana State University
Stephan C. Schuster
Stephan C. Schuster Nanyang Technological University
Michael Kühl
Michael Kühl University of Copenhagen
G. Charles Dismukes
G. Charles Dismukes Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Eric S. Boyd
Eric S. Boyd Montana State University
C. Neil Hunter
C. Neil Hunter University of Sheffield
Alexander N. Glazer
Alexander N. Glazer University of California, Berkeley
James K. Fredrickson
James K. Fredrickson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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