Biofüüsika labor

• Rühmagrant "Kõrgrõhu spektroskoopia kaudu avalduvad fotosünteetiliste ergastuste uued omadused" (2020-2024) PRG664 Arvi Freiberg
• Stardigrant "Energia ülekanne rohelise väävelbakteri fotosünteesis" (2019−2022) PSG264 Juha Matti Linnanto
• COST aktsioon CA21146 "Purpurbakterite abil jäätmete taaskasutamise biotehnoloogia alused ja rakendused (PURPLEGAIN)" (2022-2025) Arvi Freiberg
• Eesti ja Ungari teaduste akadeemiate poolt toetatav teaduskoostöö projekt “Fotosüsteem II struktuurse dünaamika barospektroskoopiline uuring” (2022–2024) Arvi Freiberg

• M. Rätsep; L. Kangur; K. Leiger; Z.Y. Wang-Otomo; A. Freiberg (2025). "Comparative thermo- and piezostability study of photosynthetic core complexes containing bacteriochlorophyll a or b." Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1866 (1), 149527.
• K. Timpmann; M. Rätsep; E. Jalviste; A. Freiberg (2024). "Tuning by Hydrogen Bonding in Photosynthesis." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 128 (38), 9120−9131.
• M. Rätsep; A. Lehtmets; L. Kangur; K. Timpmann; K. Leiger; Z.Y. Wang-Otomo; A. Freiberg (2023). "Evaluation of the relationship between color-tuning of photosynthetic excitons and thermodynamic stability of light-harvesting chromoproteins." Photosynthetica, 61 (3), 308−317.
• K. Timpmann; M. Rätsep; A. Freiberg (2023). "Dominant role of excitons in photosynthetic color-tuning and light-harvesting." Frontiers in Chemistry, 11, ARTN 1231431.
• J.R. Reimers; M. Rätsep; J.M. Linnanto; A. Freiberg (2022). "Chlorophyll spectroscopy: conceptual basis, modern high-resolution approaches, and current challenges." Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 71 (2), 127-164.
• K. Timpmann; J.M. Linnanto; D. Yadav; L. Kangur; A.Freiberg (2021). "Hydrostatic High-Pressure-Induced Denaturation of LH2 Membrane Proteins." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125 (35), 9979–9989.
• K. Timpmann; L. Kangur; A Lehtmets; Z.Y. Wang-Otomo; A. Freiberg (2021). "Exciton Origin of Color-Tuning in Ca²⁺-Binding Photosynthetic Bacteria." International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22 (14), 7338.
• K. Leiger; J.M. Linnanto; A. Freiberg (2020). "Establishment of the Qy Absorption Spectrum of Chlorophyll a Extending to Near-Infrared." Molecules, 25 (17), 3796.
  J.R. Reimers; M. Rätsep; A. Freiberg (2020). "Asymmetry in the Qy Fluorescence and Absorption Spectra of Chlorophyll a Pertaining to Exciton Dynamics." Frontiers in Chemistry, 588289.
• E. Jalviste; K. Timpmann; M. Chenchiliyan; L. Kangur; M. R. Jones; A. Freiberg (2020). "High-Pressure Modulation of Primary Photosynthetic Reactions." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 124 (5), 718−726.
• K. Timpmann; E. Jalviste; M. Chenchiliyan; L. Kangur; M.R. Jones; A. Freiberg (2020). "High-pressure tuning of primary photochemistry in bacterial photosynthesis: membrane-bound versus detergent-isolated reaction centers." Photosynthesis Research, 144, 209–220
• L. Kangur; M. Rätsep; K. Timpmann; Z.-Y. Wang-Otomo; A. Freiberg (2020). "The two light-harvesting membrane chromoproteins of Thermochromatium tepidum expose distinct robustness against temperature and pressure." Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1861 (8), 148205.
• A. Kölsch; C. Radon; M. Golub; A. Baumert; J. Bürger; T. Mielke; F. Lisdat; A. Feoktystov; J. Pieper; A. Zouni; P. Wendler (2020). "Current limits of structural biology: the transient interaction between cytochrome c and photosystem I." Current Research in Structural Biology, 2, 171−179.
• M. Golub; R. Hussein; M. Ibrahim; M. Hecht; D.C.F. Wieland; A. Martel; B. Machado; A. Zouni; J. Pieper (2020). "Solution Structure of the Detergent-Photosystem II Core Complex Investigated by Small Angle Scattering Techniques." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 124 (39), 8583−8592.
• J. Pieper; K.D. Irrgang (2020). "Nature of low-energy exciton levels in light-harvesting complex II of green plants as revealed by satellite hole structure." Photosynthesis Research, 146 (1-3), 279−285.
• L. Kangur; K. Timpmann; D. Zeller; P. Masson; J. Peters; A. Freiberg (2019). "Structural stability of human butyrylcholinesterase under high hydrostatic pressure." Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics, 1867 (2), 107−113.
• M. Rätsep; J.M. Linnanto; A. Freiberg (2019). "Higher Order Vibronic Sidebands of Chlorophyll a and Bacteriochlorophyll a for Enhanced Excitation Energy Transfer and Light Harvesting." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123 (33), 7149−7156.
• M. Pajusalu; M. Rätsep; L. Kangur; A. Freiberg (2019). "High-pressure control of photosynthetic excitons." Chemical Physics, 525, 110404
• K. Leiger; J.M. Linnanto; M. Rätsep; K. Timpmann; A.A. Ashikhmin; A.A. Moskalenko; T.Y. Fufina; A.G. Gabdulkhakov; A. Freiberg (2019). "Controlling Photosynthetic Excitons by Selective Pigment Photooxidation." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123 (1), 29−38.
• M. Rätsep; J.M. Linnanto; R. Muru; M. Biczysko; J.R. Reimers; A. Freiberg (2019). "Absorption-emission symmetry breaking and the different origins of vibrational structures of the ¹Q_y and ¹Q_x electronic transitions of pheophytin a." Journal of Chemical Physics, 151 (16), 165102.
• M. Golub; J. Pieper; J. Peters; L. Kangur; E.C. Martin; C.N. Hunter; A. Freiberg (2019). "Picosecond Dynamical Response to a Pressure-Induced Break of the Tertiary Structure Hydrogen Bonds in a Membrane Chromoprotein." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123, 2087−2093.
• M. Golub; M. Moldenhauer; F.-J. Schmitt; W. Lohstroh; E. Maksimov; T. Friedrich; J. Pieper (2019). "Solution Structure and Conformational Flexibility in the Active State of the Orange Carotenoid Protein. Part II: Quasielastic Neutron Scattering." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123 (45), 9536–9545.
• M. Golub; M. Moldenhauer; F.-J. Schmitt; A. Feoktystov; H. Mändar; E. Maksimov; T. Friedrich; J. Pieper (2019). "Solution Structure and Conformational Flexibility in the Active State of the Orange Carotenoid Protein. Part I: Small-Angle Scattering." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 123 (45), 9525−9535.

Tõnu Pullerits (1991)
Veera Krasnenko (2008)
Liina Kangur (2013)
Mihkel Pajusalu (2014)
Manoop Chenchiliyan (2016)