Research into the evolution of photosynthesis at Queen Mary is led by the group of Professor John Allen.

Selected Publications

Puthiyaveetil S, Allen JF (2009) Chloroplast two-component systems: evolution of the link between photosynthesis and gene expression. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1426

Puthiyaveetil S, Kavanagh TA, Cain P, Sullivan JA, Newell CA, Gray JC, Robinson C, van der Giezen M, Rogers MB, Allen JF (2008) The ancestral symbiont sensor kinase CSK links photosynthesis with gene expression in chloroplasts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105: 10061-10066.

Allen JF, Martin W (2007) Evolutionary biology - Out of thin air. Nature 445: 610-612.