Presidential Young Investigator Award: Genetic Regulation and Evolution of the Photosynthetic Membrane

这个总统青年研究员奖授予苏珊·戈尔登博士，为她对光合细菌的研究提供了一般的研究支持。她正在研究蓝藻和原绿藻（比蓝藻更像高等植物的叶绿体）的氧气进化光化学途径的基因。与叶绿体中的基因相比，这些生物中的基因结构、组织和转录应该有助于确定光合膜协调合成和组装的基本要素。

This Presidential Young Investigator award to Dr. Susan Golden provides general research support for her studies of photosynthetic bacteria. She is studying the genes for the oxygen-evolving photochemical pathways of cyanobacteria and prochlorophytes (which more closely resemble chloroplasts of higher plants than do the cyanobacteria). Gene structure, organization, and transcription in these organisms, compared to genes in chloroplasts, should help define essential elements of the coordinated synthesis and assembly of the photosynthetic membrane.