Molecular and Biochemical Mechanisms of Photosynthetic Acclimation to Very High Light

My aims are to evaluate underlying mechanisms that may explain resistance to very high light (VHL) in mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (VHLR mutants) that I discovered and partially evaluated during my PhD. These different, single gene mutations are likely to affect different aspects of photoprotection and resistance to photoactivation in VHL, and can only be assessed in a laboratory broadly experienced in molecular, biochemical and biophysical mechanisms of photoprotection and photoinactivation. Eventually, VHLR genes from Chlamydomonas may be valuable for introducing this trait into agronomically relevant plants, potentially enabling achievement of greater resistance to high light stress.