**About the Editors**

### **Robert Blankenship**

Robert Blankenship is the Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Emeritus, at Washington University in St. Louis. He has spent his entire 50-year scientific career studying the essential biological process of photosynthesis. He has researched nearly every type of phototrophic bacteria, including both anoxygenic and oxygenic forms. His particular research interests include energy transfer in antenna complexes, as well as electron transfer in reaction centers and electron transfer proteins. Additionally, he has also researched the origin and evolution of the photosynthetic process.

#### **Matthew Sattley**

Matthew Sattley is a Professor of Biology at Indiana Wesleyan University (Marion, IN), where he teaches laboratory courses in general microbiology, environmental microbiology, and environmental science. He has mentored dozens of undergraduate research students in his laboratory and has served as the director of the Hodson Research Institute (IWU), a faculty-led summer research program for undergraduate students in the natural sciences. Matt's research group investigates the ecology and diversity of bacteria that inhabit extreme environments, with a special focus on the physiological and genomic characterization of anoxygenic phototrophs.
