Using cryo-EM and biophysics to understand how bacterial photosynthesis powers a range of cellular processes

Photosynthesis provides energy to sustain almost all known life and has enormous untapped potential for green biotechnology. However, to meet the growing demand mankind places on photosynthesis, we must improve phototrophic organisms' ability to use the energy of sunlight to produce useful products. Purple anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria are…