Coupled Electron Transfer Processes in Proteins
This thesis project will study coupled electron transfer processes (CETPs) in proteins using molecular modeling and simulation techniques. Electron transfer (ET) is an essential element of many biological transformations, but it rarely occurs in isolation and is most often found coupled to additional processes, such as light excitation, proton transfer and other types of chemical reaction. Although ET itself is well understood at a theoretical level, CETPs still present significant challenges. This project aims to investigate CETPs in two classes of system. The first are the fluorescent proteins for which CETPs have been implicated in many of the processes, including blinking, bleaching and radiation damage, that limit
their usefulness in molecular biological applications. The second are artificially designed hydrogen-evolving complexes that use light to generate the necessary source of electrons for hydrogen production. The project will require some method development, given the current state-of-the-art, but the core of the project will focus on the applications, in close collaboration with experimental groups.
This thesis project will study coupled electron transfer processes (CETPs) in proteins using molecular modeling and simulation techniques. Electron transfer (ET) is an essential element of many biological transformations, but it rarely occurs in isolation and is most often found coupled to additional processes, such as light excitation, proton transfer and other types of chemical reaction. Although ET itself is well understood at a theoretical level, CETPs still present significant challenges. This project aims to investigate CETPs in two classes of system. The first are the fluorescent proteins for which CETPs have been implicated in many of the processes, including blinking, bleaching and radiation damage, that limit
their usefulness in molecular biological applications. The second are artificially designed hydrogen-evolving complexes that use light to generate the necessary source of electrons for hydrogen production. The project will require some method development, given the current state-of-the-art, but the core of the project will focus on the applications, in close collaboration with experimental groups.
Contact: martin.field@ibs.fr.
Applications must be made on the IRTELIS website
(http://www-dsv.cea.fr/PhDtraining or http://www-dsv.cea.fr/phd-program)
before the beginning of March 2012. Interviews of selected candidates will be held later, normally in May. Starting date is September or October 2012.
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