Dr. Dror Noy
Senior Scientist

Telephone: (+972-8) 934-3505 (Office)
                    (+972-8) 934-2148 (Lab)
Email: dror.noy@weizmann.ac.il

For over two billion years, photosynthesis has been the primary provider of energy for life on earth, converting solar energy to biomass and fuels. It is a source of inspiration for designing artificial devices for solar energy conversion and storage.
Our group applies state-of-the-art computational and empirical tools of protein design in order to construct novel protein-cofactor complexes that serve as minimal versions of natural photosynthetic enzyme.
This learning by design approach provides important insight into the fundamental processes involved in photosynthetic solar energy conversion. Ultimately, it will allow us to construct novel solar energy conversion devices by reverse engineering natural photosynthesis.

Iron-sulfur cluster protein design

Chlorophyll protein design

Light driven hydrogen production with modified Photosystem I

Chlorophyll-Phycobiliprotein complexes

Photosynthesis outside the membrane

Force spectroscopy of core-stromal ridge interactions in PSI