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Maria L. Ghirardi is affiliated with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Energy, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work is notably situated within several subfields including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Molecular Biology, and Plant Science.

Maria L. Ghirardi's research topics reflect a focus on metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, enzyme catalysis and immobilization, as well as enzyme-mediated dye degradation.

Recent publications include the paper titled "Enzyme expression in Cupriavidus necator H16 for whole-cell biocatalysis", published in 2025 in the journal Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology.

  • Enzyme expression in Cupriavidus necator H16 for whole-cell biocatalysis (2025, Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Maria L. Ghirardi have included:

  • Matteo Vajente
  • Sandy Schmidt

They have contributed to scientific literature in publication venues such as Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology.

Best Publications

  • Microalgal triacylglycerols as feedstocks for biofuel production: perspectives and advances

    Qiang Hu;Milton R. Sommerfeld;Eric E. Jarvis;Maria L. Ghirardi

  • Comparing photosynthetic and photovoltaic efficiencies and recognizing the potential for improvement.

    Robert E. Blankenship;David M. Tiede;James Barber;James Barber;Gary W. Brudvig

  • SUSTAINED PHOTOBIOLOGICAL HYDROGEN GAS PRODUCTION UPON REVERSIBLE INACTIVATION OF OXYGEN EVOLUTION IN THE GREEN ALGA CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII

    Anastasios Melis;Liping Zhang;Marc Forestier;Maria L. Ghirardi

  • Renewable hydrogen production

    John Turner;George Sverdrup;Margaret K. Mann;Pin-Ching Maness

  • Comparative energy life-cycle analyses of microalgal biomass production in open ponds and photobioreactors

    Orlando Jorquera;Asher Kiperstok;Emerson A. Sales;Marcelo Embiruçu

  • Microalgae: a green source of renewable H2

    Maria L. Ghirardi;Liping Zhang;James W. Lee;Timothy Flynn

  • Discovery of two novel radical S-adenosylmethionine proteins required for the assembly of an active [Fe] hydrogenase.

    Matthew C. Posewitz;Paul W. King;Sharon L. Smolinski;Liping Zhang

  • Hydrogenases and hydrogen photoproduction in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms.

    Maria L. Ghirardi;Matthew C. Posewitz;Pin-Ching Maness;Alexandra Dubini

  • Functional Studies of [FeFe] Hydrogenase Maturation in an Escherichia coli Biosynthetic System

    Paul W. King;Matthew C. Posewitz;Maria L. Ghirardi;Michael Seibert

  • Photobiological hydrogen-producing systems

    Maria Lucia Ghirardi;Alexandra Dubini;Jianping Yu;Pin-Ching Maness

  • [FeFe]-Hydrogenase-Catalyzed H2 Production in a Photoelectrochemical Biofuel Cell

    Michael Hambourger;Miguel Gervaldo;Drazenka Svedruzic;Paul W. King

  • Sustained hydrogen photoproduction by Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Effects of culture parameters.

    Sergey Kosourov;Anatoly Tsygankov;Michael Seibert;Maria L. Ghirardi

  • Expression of two [Fe]-hydrogenases in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii under anaerobic conditions.

    Marc Forestier;Paul King;Liping Zhang;Matthew Posewitz

  • Oxygen Sensitivity of Algal H2-Production

    Maria L. Ghirardi;Robert K. Togasaki;Michael Seibert

  • Effects of Extracellular pH on the Metabolic Pathways in Sulfur-Deprived, H2-Producing Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Cultures

    Sergey Kosourov;Michael Seibert;Maria L. Ghirardi

  • Sustained photosynthetic conversion of CO2 to ethylene in recombinant cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803

    Justin Ungerer;Ling Tao;Mark Davis;Maria Ghirardi

  • The dependence of algal H2 production on Photosystem II and O2 consumption activities in sulfur-deprived Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells.

    T.K. Antal;T.E. Krendeleva;T.V. Laurinavichene;V.V. Makarova;V.V. Makarova

  • Photosynthetic electron partitioning between [FeFe]-hydrogenase and ferredoxin:NADP+-oxidoreductase (FNR) enzymes in vitro

    Iftach Yacoby;Sergii Pochekailov;Hila Toporik;Maria L. Ghirardi

  • Demonstration of sustained hydrogen photoproduction by immobilized, sulfur-deprived Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells

    Tatyana V. Laurinavichene;Alexander S. Fedorov;Maria L. Ghirardi;Michael Seibert

  • Hydrogen production by sulfur-deprived Chlamydomonas reinhardtii under photoautotrophic conditions

    Anatoly A. Tsygankov;Sergey N. Kosourov;Irina V. Tolstygina;Maria L. Ghirardi

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Seibert
Michael Seibert National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Paul W. King
Paul W. King National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Matthew C. Posewitz
Matthew C. Posewitz Colorado School of Mines
Anastasios Melis
Anastasios Melis University of California, Berkeley
Thomas A. Moore
Thomas A. Moore Arizona State University
Klaus Schulten
Klaus Schulten University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ana L. Moore
Ana L. Moore Arizona State University
Devens Gust
Devens Gust Arizona State University
Wei Xiong
Wei Xiong University of Pittsburgh
Arthur J. Nozik
Arthur J. Nozik University of Colorado Boulder

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