Contributions of Rajni Govindjee in the life sciences: Celebrating her 88th birthday# Balashov Sergei1,*, Imasheva Ella1, Misra Saurav2, Kono Masahiro3, Liu Suyi4, Liang Jie5, Govindjee Govindjee6,**, Ebrey Thomas G.7,*** 1University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA 2Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA 3Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA 4Auber Instruments, Inc., Alpharetta, GA, 30022, USA 5University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA 6University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA 7University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA (*Corresponding authors) email: balashov@uci.edu
**gov@illinois.edu
*tebrey@uw.edu
Online Published on 7 April, 2023. #Authors are highly thankful to the Chief Editor Professor Ashwani Kumar for inviting S. Balashov and co-authors to celebrate Rajni Govindjee’s key research contributions in Life Sciences Abstract Here, we honour Rajni Govindjee, a leading photobiologist of our time, as she turns 88 in 2022. This follows the tribute given earlier by Thomas Ebrey on the occasion of her 80th birthday. After a brief introduction, we summarise her research accomplishments—carried out in a highly cooperative spirit with a large number of scientists. We conclude with recent greetings from some of Rajni’s many collaborators. Since the previous tribute to Rajni was done so wonderfully well, we reproduce a good portion of it in Appendix 1 (also see Appendix 2). Top Keywords Robert Emerson, Eugene Rabinowitch, Emerson enhancement effect, Bacteriorhodopsin, Photocycle. Top |