Gates Lab Publications as of December 2025
"Structural and Functional Roles of the Inorganic Cofactors of Photosystem II" Leslie Castillo, Nidhi Patel, Nicole Seliga, Gustavo Chavez, Colin Gates. Cyanobacteria - Exploring Their Role in Energy, Environment and Industry 12/25 - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1013439
"Deterministic control of magnetotactic bacteria via an analysis of their nanomagnetic structure" Noah Kent, Colin Gates, Bohdan Senyuk, Jan Bart ten Hove, Jeffrey Cameron, Ivan I Smalyukh. Physical Review E 10/25 - https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/ggl8-44wg
"Adaptation of the Chlorella photosynthetic electron transport chain to environmental light conditions" Grant Steiner, Devinjeet Saini, Arivu Kapoor, Colin Gates. Algal Research 10/25 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211926425003340?via%3Dihub
"Depletion reveals role of bicarbonate in the photosynthetic electron transport chain of Limnospira maxima" Leslie Castillo, Stavroula Nicolaou, Colin Gates. Frontiers in Plant Science 06/25 - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2025.1584909/abstract
"Exceptional Quantum Efficiency Powers Biomass Production in Halotolerant Algae Picochlorum sp." Colin Gates, Gennady Ananyev, Fatima Foflonker, Debashish Bhattacharya, G Charles Dismukes. Photosynthesis Research 12/24 - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11120-024-01075-9
"Converting the 4-Flash Photosynthetic O2 Evolution Cycle to a 2-Flash Catalytic Cycle with a Simple Cocatalyst: Counting Electrons and Holes Directly and Transparently" Colin Gates, Gennady Ananyev, Shatabdi Roy-Chowdhury, Petra Fromme, G. Charles Dismukes. ACS Catalysis 09/24 - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.4c03896
"How chloride functions to enable proton conduction in photosynthetic water oxidation: Time-resolved kinetics of intermediates (S-states) in vivo and bromide substitution" Colin Gates, Jonah M. Williams, Gennady Ananyev, G. Charles Dismukes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Bioenergetics 11/23 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2023.148998
"The effects of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots on the photosynthesis rate of the Chlorella Vulgaris beads" Wimeth Dissanayake, Richard Hailstone, Leslie Castillo, Mengdi Bao, Ruo-Qian Wang, Colin Gates, Xin Yong, Ke Du. Algal Research 04/23 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211926423001285
"Regulation of light energy conversion between linear and cyclic electron flow within photosystem II controlled by the plastoquinone/quinol redox poise" Colin Gates, Gennady Ananyev, Shatabdi Roy-Chowdhury, Petra Fromme, G Charles Dismukes. Photosynthesis Research 11/22 - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11120-022-00985-w
"Why did nature choose manganese over cobalt to make oxygen photosynthetically on the earth?" Colin Gates, Gennady Ananyev, Shatabdi Roy-Chowdhury, Brendan Cullinane, Mathias Miller, Petra Fromme, G Charles Dismukes. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 04/22 - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c00749