Cano Melissa
Postdoctoral Researcher III-Biology
Biology
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
United States of America
Biography
Ph.D., Microbiology – Vegetal Biology, University of Aix-Marseille, France, 2013,M.S., Microbiology, Vegetal Biology & Biotechnologies, 2009, B.S., Biochemistry, 2007
Research Interest
Dr. Melissa Cano obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Aix-Marseille, France, in 2013, after performing her research with the Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA, Cadarache, France), where she studied the photoproduction of hydrogen by the cyanobacteria Synechocystis, and the engineering of an oxygen-tolerant variant of its hydrogenase. She joined the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in July 2014, and currently works with the Photobiology group. Her main research focuses on understanding how carbon is partitioned in Synechocystis, integrating photosynthetic and biochemical analysis of mutants affected in carbon storage. The aim is to deepen our comprehension of the interplay of photosynthesis and carbon metabolism, which will help devise future engineering strategies to direct the production of specific products and chemicals in cyanobacteria.
Publications
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Aad G, Abbott B, Abdallah J, Abdelalim AA, Abdesselam A, Abdinov O, Abi B, Abolins M, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Acerbi E. Search for new physics in the dijet mass distribution using 1 fb− 1 of pp collision data at collected by the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B. 2012 Feb 14;708(1):37-54.
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Xiong W, Lee TC, Rommelfanger S, Gjersing E, Cano M, Maness PC, Ghirardi M, Yu J. Phosphoketolase pathway contributes to carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria. Nature plants. 2015 Dec 7;2:15187.
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Aubertâ€Jousset E, Cano M, Guedeney G, Richaud P, Cournac L. Role of HoxE subunit in Synechocystis PCC6803 hydrogenase. The FEBS journal. 2011 Nov 1;278(21):4035-43.
