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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1991 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Richard J. Cogdell is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, with a primary focus on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as physics and astronomy.

Their work encompasses several subfields including molecular biology, atomic and molecular physics and optics, cellular and molecular neuroscience, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and ecology.

The main topics of Cogdell's research cover photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, algal biology and biofuel production, genomics and phylogenetic studies, spectroscopy and laser applications, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by this scientist include:

  • Quantum biology revisited, 2020, Science Advances
  • Bioinspiration in light harvesting and catalysis, 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
  • The 2.4 Å cryo-EM structure of a heptameric light-harvesting 2 complex reveals two carotenoid energy transfer pathways, 2021, Science Advances
  • Quieting a noisy antenna reproduces photosynthetic light-harvesting spectra, 2020, Science
  • A comparative look at structural variation among RC-LH1 'Core' complexes present in anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria, 2020, Photosynthesis Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cogdell include:

  • Alastair T. Gardiner
  • Tu C. Nguyen-Phan
  • Chiasa Uragami
  • Hideki Hashimoto
  • Qian Pu

Cogdell's publications appear regularly in several scientific venues such as:

  • Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Photosynthesis Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

They have been recognized with fellowships including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2007)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1991)

Best Publications

  • Crystal structure of an integral membrane light-harvesting complex from photosynthetic bacteria

    G. McDermott;S. M. Prince;A. A. Freer;A. M. Hawthornthwaite-Lawless

  • Carotenoids in Photosynthesis

    Harry A. Frank;Richard J. Cogdell

  • Quantum control of energy flow in light harvesting.

    Jennifer L. Herek;Jennifer L. Herek;Wendel Wohlleben;Richard J. Cogdell;Dirk Zeidler

  • The architecture and function of the light-harvesting apparatus of purple bacteria: from single molecules to in vivo membranes.

    Richard J. Cogdell;Andrew Gall;Jürgen Köhler

  • Crystal structure of the RC-LH1 core complex from Rhodopseudomonas palustris.

    Aleksander W. Roszak;Tina D. Howard;June Southall;Alastair T. Gardiner

  • The structure and thermal motion of the B800-850 LH2 complex from Rps.acidophila at 2.0A resolution and 100K: new structural features and functionally relevant motions.

    Miroslav Z. Papiz;Steve M. Prince;Tina Howard;Richard J. Cogdell

  • How carotenoids function in photosynthetic bacteria.

    Richard J. Cogdell;Harry A. Frank

  • The photochemistry of carotenoids

    Harry A. Frank;Andrew J. Young;George Britton;Richard J. Cogdell

  • Quantum biology revisited

    Jianshu Cao;Richard J. Cogdell;David F. Coker;Hong Guang Duan;Hong Guang Duan

  • Quantum coherent energy transfer over varying pathways in single light-harvesting complexes.

    Richard Hildner;Daan Brinks;Jana B. Nieder;Richard J. Cogdell

  • Picosecond detection of an intermediate in the photochemical reaction of bacterial photosynthesis

    Mark G. Rockley;Maurice W. Windsor;Richard J. Cogdell;William W. Parson

  • An unusual pathway of excitation energy deactivation in carotenoids: Singlet-to-triplet conversion on an ultrafast timescale in a photosynthetic antenna

    Claudiu C. Gradinaru;John T. M. Kennis;Emmanouil Papagiannakis;Ivo H. M. van Stokkum

  • Carotenoids and Photosynthesis.

    Hideki Hashimoto;Chiasa Uragami;Richard J. Cogdell

  • STRUCTURE-BASED CALCULATIONS OF THE OPTICAL SPECTRA OF THE LH2 BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL-PROTEIN COMPLEX FROM RHODOPSEUDOMONAS ACIDOPHILA

    Kenneth Sauer;Richard J. Cogdell;Steve M. Prince;Andy Freer

  • Pigment–pigment interactions and energy transfer in the antenna complex of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila

    Andy Freer;Steve Prince;Ken Sauer;Miroslav Papiz

  • Photosynthetic light-harvesting by carotenoids: detection of an intermediate excited state

    G. Cerullo;D. Polli;G. Lanzani;S. De Silvestri

  • Fluorescence and photobleaching dynamics of single light-harvesting complexes

    Martin A. Bopp;Yiwei Jia;Liangquan Li;Richard J. Cogdell

  • Nature does not rely on long-lived electronic quantum coherence for photosynthetic energy transfer

    Hong-Guang Duan;Hong-Guang Duan;Valentyn I Prokhorenko;Richard J Cogdell;Khuram Ashraf

  • The crystallographic structure of the B800-820 LH3 light-harvesting complex from the purple bacteria Rhodopseudomonas acidophila strain 7050.

    K. McLuskey;S. M. Prince;R. J. Cogdell;N. W. Isaacs

  • The primary photochemical reaction of bacterial photosynthesis

    William W. Parson;Richard J. Cogdell

  • Excited states of photosynthetic reaction centers at low recox potentials.

    William W. Parson;Roderick K. Clayton;Richard J. Cogdell;Richard J. Cogdell

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideki Hashimoto
Hideki Hashimoto Kwansei Gakuin University
Neil W. Isaacs
Neil W. Isaacs University of Glasgow
Rienk van Grondelle
Rienk van Grondelle Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Bruno Robert
Bruno Robert University of Paris-Saclay
Giulio Cerullo
Giulio Cerullo Polytechnic University of Milan
Harry A. Frank
Harry A. Frank University of Connecticut
Guglielmo Lanzani
Guglielmo Lanzani Italian Institute of Technology
R. J. Dwayne Miller
R. J. Dwayne Miller University of Toronto
Tõnu Pullerits
Tõnu Pullerits Lund University
C. Neil Hunter
C. Neil Hunter University of Sheffield

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