Jianzhong Wen
Chemistry graduate Student
EDUCATIONAL Background
Jianzhong Wen joined the Blankenship lab in the fall 2005. He received his B.S. degree in Physics from Wuhan University, China, in the summer of 2004. From 2004 to 2005, he worked as a research assistant in Dr. Yuxiang Weng's lab at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Research Interests
- Crystallization of light harvesting antenna and reaction center from green sulfur bacteria.
- Spectroscopic study of the energy transfer process in the photosystems of green sulfur bacteria.
- Investigating the architecture of photosystem, molecular recognition and protein interaction networks using FMO antenna protein as a model system.
- Structural Mass Spectrometry by Surface Mapping and Native Electrospray.
Awards
The young investigator award ---- The Gordon Conference in Photosynthesis. 2008
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Publications
1. Read EL, Schlau-Cohen G, Engel GS, Wen J-Z, Blankenship RE, Fleming GR (2008) Visualization of Excitonic Structure in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Photosynthetic Complex by Polarization-Dependent Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy. Biophys J. 95(2):847-56.
2. Tang KH, Wen J-Z, Li X, Blankenship RE (2009) Role of the AcsF protein in Chloroflexus aurantiacus. J Bacteriol. 191(11):3580-7.
3. Wen J-Z, Zhang H, Gross ML, Blankenship RE (2009) Membrane orientation of the FMO antenna protein from Chlorobaculum tepidum as determined by mass spectrometry-based footprinting. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(15):6134-9.
4. Tronrud DE, Wen J-Z, Gay L, Blankenship RE (2009) The structural basis for the difference in absorbance spectra for the FMO antenna protein from various green sulfur bacteria. Photosynth Res 100(2):79-87.
