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Cheryl Kerfeld

Guest Faculty

Divisions

Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology

  • Comparative and Functional Genomics

Secondary Affiliation:

Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging

  • Structural Biology

Recent Publications

Related News

Toward Engineering Cell-like Factories

Cheryl Kerfeld’s laboratory, which operates at both Michigan State University and Berkeley Lab, teamed up with researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Delaware to take a first step toward creating artificial cells that lack a lipid membrane.

Kerfeld to Lead New DOE-funded Center for Catalysis in Biomimetic Confinement

With $10.65 million in support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), a new Energy Frontier Research Center based at Michigan State University (MSU) has been established. Led by Cheryl Kerfeld, a professor in the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, the Center for Catalysis in Biomimetic Confinement (CCBC) will explore how nature compartmentalizes some of its most important biochemical reactions.

Cryo-EM Reveals Blueprint for Microbial Photosynthesis

Advances in cryogenic electron microscopy have enabled an international team of experts to visualize the structure of a cyanobacterial phycobilisome with nearly atomic resolution. The work, a collaboration among researchers at Michigan State University, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, and the University of South Bohemia in the Czech Republic, was published in Nature. Knowing the position of different proteins and pigments helps scientist better understand this natural process and can inspire future applications in areas such as renewable energy and environmental remediation.

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