Dr Jon Nield
Royal Society University Research Fellow, Lecturer
- Room: 4.29, Fogg Building
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 3126
- Email: j.nield("at" sign)qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Research website: http://www.photosynthesis.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/nield/index.html
My core interests are in transmission electron microscopy coupled to the image-processing technique of single particle analysis. This has revealed novel photosynthetic structures 20 to 40 nm in diameter (500 to 3,000 kDa in molecular mass) at resolutions of 15 to 25 Å. The 2D/3D structures are functionally intact photosystem reaction centres, with their light-harvesting antennae, isolated from a variety of organisms. It is anticipated this will aid future research, elsewhere, in the design of artificial photosynthesis/renewable energy technologies. Structures involved in bacterial pathogenesis and neurotoxicity have also been probed. Furthermore, a light harvesting protein was recently resolved to 1.45 Å resolution by X-ray crystallography. My research focus is now shifting towards proteins required for the assembly/repair/regulation of the photosystems.