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Projects

Team grant "New Insights into Photosynthetic Excitations Enabled by High-pressure Perturbation Spectroscopy" (2020-2024) PRG664 Arvi Freiberg
Team grant "Functionally relevant protein structure and dynamics studied by neutron scattering" (2019−2023) PRG539 Jörg Pieper
Start-up grant "Energy transfer in the photosynthetic unit of green sulphur bacterium" (2019−2022) PSG264 Juha Matti Linnanto
Research Infrastructures Roadmap support "Estonian participation in designing, construction and application of the ESS" (09.2015−08.2022) SLTKT16432T Enn Lust

Selected publications

M. Golub; A. Kölsch; A. Feoktystov; A. Zouni; J. Pieper (2021). "Insights into Solution Structures of Photosynthetic Protein Complexes from Small-Angle Scattering Methods." Crystals, 11 (2), 1−17.
K. Leiger; J.M. Linnanto; A. Freiberg (2020). "Establishment of the Qy Absorption Spectrum of Chlorophyll a Extending to Near-Infrared." Molecules, 25 (17), 3796.
J.R. Reimers; M. Rätsep; A. Freiberg (2020). "Asymmetry in the Qy Fluorescence and Absorption Spectra of Chlorophyll a Pertaining to Exciton Dynamics." Frontiers in Chemistry, 588289.
E. Jalviste; K. Timpmann; M. Chenchiliyan; L. Kangur; M. R. Jones; A. Freiberg (2020). "High-Pressure Modulation of Primary Photosynthetic Reactions." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 124 (5), 718−726.
K. Timpmann; E. Jalviste; M. Chenchiliyan; L. Kangur; M.R. Jones; A. Freiberg (2020). "High-pressure tuning of primary photochemistry in bacterial photosynthesis: membrane-bound versus detergent-isolated reaction centers." Photosynthesis Research, 144, 209–220
L. Kangur; M. Rätsep; K. Timpmann; Z.-Y. Wang-Otomo; A. Freiberg (2020). "The two light-harvesting membrane chromoproteins of Thermochromatium tepidum expose distinct robustness against temperature and pressure." Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1861 (8), 148205.
A. Kölsch; C. Radon; M. Golub; A. Baumert; J. Bürger; T. Mielke; F. Lisdat; A. Feoktystov; J. Pieper; A. Zouni; P. Wendler (2020). "Current limits of structural biology: the transient interaction between cytochrome c and photosystem I." Current Research in Structural Biology, 2, 171−179.
M. Golub; R. Hussein; M. Ibrahim; M. Hecht; D.C.F. Wieland; A. Martel; B. Machado; A. Zouni; J. Pieper (2020). "Solution Structure of the Detergent-Photosystem II Core Complex Investigated by Small Angle Scattering Techniques." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 124 (39), 8583−8592.
J. Pieper; K.D. Irrgang (2020). "Nature of low-energy exciton levels in light-harvesting complex II of green plants as revealed by satellite hole structure." Photosynthesis Research, 146 (1-3), 279−285.
L. Kangur; K. Timpmann; D. Zeller; P. Masson; J. Peters; A. Freiberg (2019). "Structural stability of human butyrylcholinesterase under high hydrostatic pressure." Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics, 1867 (2), 107−113.
M. Rätsep; J.M. Linnanto; A. Freiberg (2019). "Higher Order Vibronic Sidebands of Chlorophyll a and Bacteriochlorophyll a for Enhanced Excitation Energy Transfer and Light Harvesting." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123 (33), 7149−7156.
M. Pajusalu; M. Rätsep; L. Kangur; A. Freiberg (2019). "High-pressure control of photosynthetic excitons." Chemical Physics, 525, 110404
K. Leiger; J.M. Linnanto; M. Rätsep; K. Timpmann; A.A. Ashikhmin; A.A. Moskalenko; T.Y. Fufina; A.G. Gabdulkhakov; A. Freiberg (2019). "Controlling Photosynthetic Excitons by Selective Pigment Photooxidation." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123 (1), 29−38.
M. Rätsep; J.M. Linnanto; R. Muru; M. Biczysko; J.R. Reimers; A. Freiberg (2019). "Absorption-emission symmetry breaking and the different origins of vibrational structures of the ¹Q_y and ¹Q_x electronic transitions of pheophytin a." Journal of Chemical Physics, 151 (16), 165102.
M. Golub; J. Pieper; J. Peters; L. Kangur; E.C. Martin; C.N. Hunter; A. Freiberg (2019). "Picosecond Dynamical Response to a Pressure-Induced Break of the Tertiary Structure Hydrogen Bonds in a Membrane Chromoprotein." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123, 2087−2093.
M. Golub; M. Moldenhauer; F.-J. Schmitt; W. Lohstroh; E. Maksimov; T. Friedrich; J. Pieper (2019). "Solution Structure and Conformational Flexibility in the Active State of the Orange Carotenoid Protein. Part II: Quasielastic Neutron Scattering." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123 (45), 9536–9545.
M. Golub; M. Moldenhauer; F.-J. Schmitt; A. Feoktystov; H. Mändar; E. Maksimov; T. Friedrich; J. Pieper (2019). "Solution Structure and Conformational Flexibility in the Active State of the Orange Carotenoid Protein. Part I: Small-Angle Scattering." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123 (45), 9525−9535.

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		Arvi Freiberg head of lab professor in biophysics, dr. sci., academician, TÜMRI chair of biophysics and plant physiology E-mail: arvi.freiberg [ät] ut.ee Phone: 5645 3175, 737 4612 Office: D101 CV, references: ETIS, ORCID, Eesti TA Publications: Google Scholar, Publons, Mendeley, Scopus, Researchgate Teaching: UT Study Info System ( + `Search` ) Supervision: UT DSpace
		Jörg Pieper professor in biophysics, Dr. rer. nat. E-mail: jorg.pieper [ät] ut.ee Phone: 737 4627 Office: D102 CV, references: ETIS, ORCID, LinkedIn Publications: Scopus, Researchgate Teaching: UT Study Info System ( + `Search` ) Supervision: UT DSpace
		Juha Matti Linnanto associate professor in biophysics, PhD E-mail: juha.matti.linnato [ät] ut.ee Phone: 737 4747 Office: D111 CV, references: ETIS , ORCID Publications: UT Dspace Google Scholar, Mendeley, Scopus, Researchgate Teaching: UT Study Info System ( + `Search` ) Supervision: UT DSpace
		Margus Rätsep associate professor in optics and spectroscopy, PhD E-mail: margus.ratsep [ät] ut.ee Phone: 737 4747 Office: D111, Lab: D114 CV, references: ETIS , ORCID Publications: Mendeley, Scopus, Researchgate Teaching: UT Study Info System ( + `Search` ) Supervision: UT DSpace
		Kõu Timpmann associate professor in biophysics, cand. sci. E-mail: kou.timpmann [ät] ut.ee Phone: 5345 6149, 737 4738, 737 4739 Office: D103, Lab: D113 CV, viited: ETIS , ORCID Publikatsioonid: Mendeley, Scopus , Researchgate Teaching: UT Study Info System ( + `Search` ) Supervision: UT DSpace
		Maksym Golub research fellow in neuton scattering, PhD E-mail: maksym.golub [ät] ut.ee@ut.ee Phone: 737 4627 Office: D102, D201 CV, references: ETIS Publications: Publons, Mendeley, Scopus, Researchgate
		Erko Jalviste research fellow in optics and spectroscopy, PhD E-mail: erko.jalviste [ät] ut.ee Phone: 505 2383, 737 4738 Office: D103 CV, references: ETIS, ORCID, LinkedIn Publications: Google Scholar, Publons, Scopus, Researchgate Teaching: UT Study Info System ( + `Search` )
		Liina Kangur research fellow in biochemistry, PhD E-mail: liina.kangur [ät] ut.ee Phone: 507 1061 Lab: D116 CV, references: ETIS Publications: Scopus, Researchgate Teaching: UT Study Info System ( + `Search` ) Supervision: UT DSpace
		Kristjan Leiger research fellow in biophysics, PhD E-mail: kristjan.leiger [ät] ut.ee Phone: 737 4747 Office: D111, Lab: D115 CV, references: ETIS , ORCID Publications: Scopus, Researchgate Teaching: UT Study Info System ( + `Search` ) Supervision: UT DSpace
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