Arthur Robert Grossman (born 1950) is an American biologist whose research ranges across the fields of

plant biology Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empiri ...

microbiology Microbiology () is the branches of science, scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular organism, unicellular (single-celled), multicellular organism, multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or non-cellular life, acellula ...

marine biology Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms that inhabit the sea. Given that in biology many scientific classification, phyla, family (biology), families and genera have some species that live in the sea and ...

phytochemistry Phytochemistry is the study of phytochemicals, which are chemicals derived from plants. Phytochemists strive to describe the structures of the large number of secondary metabolites found in plants, the functions of these compounds in human and ...

, and

photosynthesis Photosynthesis ( ) is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabo ...

. He has been a staff scientist at

Carnegie Institution for Science The Carnegie Institution for Science, also known as Carnegie Science and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is an organization established to fund and perform scientific research in the United States. This institution is headquartered in W ...

’s Department of Plant Biology since 1982, and holds a courtesy appointment as professor in the Department of Biology at

Stanford Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth governor of and th ...

. He has mentored more than fifteen PhD students and more than thirty post-doctoral fellows. Grossman was the recipient of the

Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal The Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "in recognition of excellence in published research on marine or freshwater algae." It has been awarded every three years since 1979. List of Gilbert Morgan Smith ...

(

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, NGO, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the ...

) in 2009 and the Darbaker Prize for work on microalgae (

Botanical Society of America The Botanical Society of America (BSA) represents professional and amateur botanists, researchers, educators and students in over 80 countries of the world. It functions as a United States nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership society. History The soc ...

) in 2002. He is co-editor in chief of ''

Journal of Phycology The ''Journal of Phycology'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of phycology (the study of algae), published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. on behalf of the Phycological Society of America. The journal was established in 1965 and publishe ...

'', and has been on the editorial boards of major biological journals including the ''

Annual Review of Genetics The ''Annual Review of Genetics'' is an annual peer-reviewed scientific review journal published by Annual Reviews. It was established in 1967 and covers all topics related to the genetics of viruses, bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals, includi ...

'', ''

Eukaryotic Cell The eukaryotes ( ) constitute the domain of Eukaryota or Eukarya, organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus. All animals, plants, fungi, seaweeds, and many unicellular organisms are eukaryotes. They constitute a major group of Out ...

'', ''

Journal of Biological Chemistry The ''Journal of Biological Chemistry'' (''JBC'') is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1905., jbc.org Since 1925, it is published by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It covers research i ...

'', and ''

Molecular Plant ''Molecular Plant'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes both original research and review articles in the field of plant biology, with a particular emphasis on plant cell biology, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biolog ...

'' among others. He has also been on many committees and panels that evaluate scientific directions for the various granting agencies, universities and government departments. He was elected the co-chair of the

Gordon Research Conference Gordon Research Conferences are a group of international scientific conferences organized by a non-profit organization of the same name, since 1931 covering frontier research in the chemical, and physical and later biological Biology i ...

on Photosynthesis in 2015, and will be chair again in 2017. He is Chief of Genetics at Solazyme Inc. which applies plant biology to create oils.

Education

Grossman received his undergraduate degree in biology with honors, from

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls nearly 14,000 students on a campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall ...

(1973), and his Ph.D. in 1978 from

Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, IUB, or Indiana) is a public university, public research university in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is the flagship university, flagship campus of Indiana Univer ...

. From 1978 to 1982 he was a postdoctoral fellow at

The Rockefeller University The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York. It focuses primarily on the biological and medical sciences and provides doctoral and postdoctoral education. It is classifi ...

, Department of Cell Biology with Nam-Hai Chua. He joined the Department of Plant Biology of the

as a staff scientist in 1982.

Scientific contributions

Throughout his career, Grossman has focused on understanding the mechanism of microbial photosynthesis, and its role in areas ranging from the ocean environment to applications in biotechnology. Although he has worked with numerous model organisms, he is best known for his work with '' Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (C. reinhardtii)'', on which genome project he was co-PI.

Selected bibliography

*Aksoy, M., Pootakham, W., Grossman, A.R. (2014) Critical function of a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii putative vacuolar transporter chaperone during nutrient deprivation. Plant Cell. 26: pages 4214–29. *Nowack, E., Grossman, A.R. (2012) The Import of the PsaE subunit of photosystem I into the recently established photosynthetic organelles of Paulinella chromatophora.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'' (often abbreviated ''PNAS'' or ''PNAS USA'') is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal. It is the official journal of the National Academy of Scie ...

. 109: pages 5340–5345. * Merchant, S., Prochnik, S. and the Chlamydomonas Genome Project Team (Rokhsar and Grossman, Corresponding authors) (2007) Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genome reveals evolutionary insights into critical animal- and plant-associated functions. Science 318: pages 245–250. *Cardol. P., Bailleul, B., Derelle, E., Béal, D., Rappaport, F., Breyton, C., Bailey, S., Wollman, F.-A., Grossman, A.R., Moreau, H., Finazzi, G. (2008) A novel adaptation of photosynthesis in the marine, picoeukaryote Ostreococcus sp. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105: pages 7881–6. *Steunou, A.S., Bhaya, D., Bateson, M., Melendrez, M., Ward, D., Brecht, E., Peters, J.W., Kühl, K, Grossman, A.R. (2006) In Situ Analysis of Nitrogen Fixation and Metabolic Switching in Unicellular Thermophilic Cyanobacteria in Hot Spring Microbial Mat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103: pages 2398–403. *Niyogi, K. Björkman, O., Grossman, A.R. (1997) The role of specific xanthophylls in photoprotection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 94: pages 14162-14167. *Kehoe, D., Grossman, A.R. (1996) Sensor of chromatic adaptation is similar to phytochrome and ethylene receptor. Science 273: pages 1409-1412. *Davies, J., Yildiz F., Grossman, A.R. (1996) Sac1, a putative regulator that is critical of survival of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii during sulfur deprivation. EMBO J 15: pages 2150-2159. *Collier, J., Grossman, A.R. (1994) A small peptide elicits the degradation of phycobilisomes during nutrient-limited growth of cyanobacteria. EMBO J 13: pages 1039-1047. *Conley, P.B., Lemaux, P.G., Gross, A.R. (1985) Cyanobacterial light-harvesting complex subunits are encoded in two red light-induced transcripts. Science 230: pages 550–553. *Grossman, A.R., Bartlett, S.G., Chua, N.H. (1980) Energy-dependent uptake of cytoplasmically-synthesized polypeptides by chloroplasts. Nature 285: pages 625–628.

References

External links

Grossman lab at CIWDPB
{{DEFAULTSORT:Grossman, Arthur 1950 births Living people American molecular biologists American microbiologists Brooklyn College alumni Indiana University Bloomington alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences