DOE awards Professor Elliott a 3 Year Renewal
The Department of Energy has award Dr. Sean Elliott a 3 Year renewal of funding for his research titled “Tuning Directionality for CO2 Reduction in the Oxo-acid:ferredoxin Oxidoreductase Superfamily.”
The renewal of funding will help Professor Elliott and his research group continue studying CO2 reductions. Enzymes that achieve CO2 reduction are highly powerful catalysts; yet very little is known about how they work, nor how they can be tuned to favor CO2 reduction chemistry. Through the completion of the project, this knowledge gap will be addressed in the context of the enzymatic chemistry of the oxo-acid:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (OFOR) superfamily, which is capable of CO2 reduction. Professor Elliott and his group believe that their studies of the OFOR superfamily will reveal the molecular details of how nature biases the reactivity of an enzyme to preferentially reduce CO2. These efforts will yield foundational knowledge that will be broadly applicable to marrying the thermodynamics of redox reactions to atomistic information of enzymatic mechanism.
Congratulations to Professor Elliott and his research group on their excellent work. For more information about Professor Elliott’s research please visit the Elliott Group Page.