publications

Jin ES, Lee C-G, and Polle JEW (2006), Secondary Carotenoid Accumulation in Haematococcus (Chlorophyceae): Biosynthesis, Regulation and Biotechnology. J Marine Biotechnology, in press.


Polle JEW (2005), Comparative Physiology. Thomson.


Polle JEW (2005), Instructor's Manual with Test Items. Plant Biology. Eds. Rost, Barbour, Stocking, and Murphy. Thomson Brooks/Cole.


Contributor to single chapter (2005), Renneberg R, Biotechnologie für Einsteiger. Elsevier, Spectrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.


Yokthongwattanna K, Savchenko T, Polle JEW, and Melis A (2005), Isolation and characterization of a xanthophylls-rich fraction from the thylakoid membrane of Dunaliella salina (green algae). Photochemical Photobiological Sciences


Park S, Polle JEW, Melis A, Lee TK, Jin E-S (2005), Up-regulation of photoprotection and PSII-repair gene expression by irradiance in the unicellular green alga Dunaliella salina. J Marine Biotechnol


Benemann J, Polle J, Huesemann M, Yu J, Brune D, Weissman J, and Kyle D, (2004), A Novel Photobiological Hydrogen Production Process. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Photosynthesis, Eds. Van der Est and Bruce, Montreal, Canada, p. 878-880


Polle JEW, Aksoy M, Stauffer G, Benemann J, and Weissman J (2004), Genetic Improvements for Increasing Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency by Microalgae Cultures. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Photosynthesis, Eds. Van der Est and Bruce, Montreal, Canada, p. 1063-1065


Polle J, Belay A, Weissman J, Huesemann M, Pedroni P, and Benemann J (2004), Microalgae Culture Maintenance for Greenhouse Gas Abatement and other Applications. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress for Culture Collections, Tsukuba, Japan


Jin ES, Polle JEW, Melis (2003), Role of the reversible xanthophylls cycle in the photosystem-II damage and repair cycle in Dunaliella salina (green alga). Plant Physiology, 132: 352-364


Polle JEW, Kanakagiri S, and Melis A (2003), TLA1, a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii nuclear gene regulates the chlorophyll antenna size of photosynthesis. Planta, 217: 49-59

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Jin ES, Polle JEW, Lee HK, and Chang M (2003), Xanthophylls in microalgae: From biosynthesis to biotechnological mass production and application. J Microbiol and Biotechnol, 13(2): 165-174

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Polle JEW (2003) Reader for: 34.1 Comparative Physiology. XanEdu Publishing Services, BRK129, USA.


Polle JEW, Kanakagiri S, Jin ES, Masuda T, and Melis A (2002), Truncated chlorophyll antenna size of the photosystems - A practical method to improve microalgal productivity and hydrogen production in mass culture. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 27:1257-1264

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Lokstein H, Tian L, Polle JEW, and DellaPenna D (2002), Xanthophyll Biosynthetic Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana: Altered Nonphotochemical Quenching of Chlorophyll Fluorescence is due to Changes in Photosystem II Antenna Size and Stability. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1553: 309-319

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Masuda T, Polle JEW, and Melis A (2002), Biosynthesis and Distribution of Chl among the photosystems during recovery of the green alga Dunaliella salina from irradiance stress. Plant Physiol, 128: 603-614

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Jin ES, Polle JEW, and Melis A (2001), Involvement of Zeaxanthin and of the Cbr protein in the repair of photosystem II from photoinhibition in the green alga Dunaliella salina. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1506 (3): 244-259

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Polle J, Kanakagiri S, Benemann JR and Melis A (2001), Maximizing photosynthetic efficiencies and hydrogen production by microalgal cultures. In, Biohydrogen II: An Approach to Environmentally Acceptable Technology (J Miyake, T Matsunanga and A San Pietro, Eds.), pp. 111-130. Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK

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Polle JEW, Niyogi KK and Melis A, (2001), Absence of lutein, violaxanthin and neoxanthin affects the functional chlorophyll antenna size of photosystem-II but not that of photosystem-I in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Cell Physiol 42 (5): 482-491

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Doltchinkova VR, Georgieva K, Kapchina-Toveta V, and Polle JEW (2000), Electrokinetic properties of thylakoids in in vitro cultured Gyopsophila paniculata plants. Aust J Plant Physiol 27 (11): 1085-1091

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Polle JEW, Benemann JR, Tanaka A and Melis A (2000), Photosynthetic apparatus organization and function in wild type and a Chl b-less mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Dependence on carbon source. Planta 211(3): 335-344

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Polle JEW and Melis A (1999), Recovery of the photosynthetic apparatus from photoinhibition during dark incubation of the green alga Dunaliella salina. Aust J Plant Physiol 26 (7): 679-686

lectures

2006 University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA

2006 1st Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

2005 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA USA

2005 Meeting of the International Network on Bioxfixation of CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Abatement with Mircoalgae, Clemson, GA, USA

2005 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2005 Hunter College of CUNY, Department of Biology, Manhattan, NY, USA

2004 Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ, USA

2004 Queens College of CUNY, Queens, NY, USA

2004 1st World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, Orlando, FL, USA

2004 Meeting of the International Network on Bioxfixation of CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Abatement with Mircoalgae, Washington DC, USA

2004 Meeting of the International Network on Bioxfixation of CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Abatement with Mircoalgae, Seattle, WA, USA

2003 Lehman College of CUNY, New York, NY, USA

2003 New York Area Meeting of Molecular Biologists, Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, USA
"Use of Molecular Biology Tools to Investigate Biodiversity of the Algal Genus Dunaliella."

2003 Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute, Sa-dong 1270, Ansan Kung-Gi Do, Korea
"Improvement of microalgal productivity: A biological method."

2003 Meeting of the International Network on Biofixation of CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Abatement with Microalgae, Berkeley, CA USA
"Chlorophyll antenna size of the photosystems and the capacity of photosynthesis in green algae."

2002 "Pleasures of the Mind" Conference, City College, Manhattan, NY, USA
"Hot Topics in Biology."

2001 Biochemical Engineering Conference XII, Sonoma, CA, USA
"Genes for the enhancement of microalgal productivity."

2001 Long Island University, Southampton College, Southampton, NY, USA
"Maximizing the productivity of algal mass cultures: A biological approach."

2001 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
"Biogenesis of the photosynthetic apparatus: Biosynthesis and regulation of light-harvesting protein complexes."

2000 University of California, Davis, CA USA
"Efforts to improve productivity of algal mass cultures: Dependence on light-harvesting."

2000 Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
"Photosynthetic apparatus organization in Chl-deficient and Chl b-less mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii."

2000 Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany
"Photosynthetic apparatus organization in Chl-deficient and Chl b-less mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii."

2000 University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
"Significance of light-harvesting complexes for maximizing the productivity of microalgal mass cultures."