Matt Melnicki, PhD
Senior Research Associate
Kerfeld Lab East
Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University-DOE

PhD, Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
BSc, Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2002

Mail:
612 Wilson Road, Room 222
East Lansing, MI 48824
Lab Phone:  517-432-4349

[email protected]
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Publications: (Google Scholar link)
  • Han Bao, Matthew R Melnicki, Cheryl A Kerfeld (2017). Structure and functions of Orange Carotenoid Protein homologs in cyanobacteria Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 37:1–9 (link to article)
  • Lechno-Yossef S, Melnicki MR, Bao H, Montgomery BL, Kerfeld CA. (2017) Synthetic OCP Heterodimers are Photoactive and Recapitulate the Fusion of Two Primitive Carotenoproteins in the Evolution of Cyanobacterial Photoprotection  The Plant Journal (link)
  • Manuel Sommer, Fei Cai, Matthew R. Melnicki, Cheryl A. Kerfeld (2017) β-Carboxysome bioinformatics: identification and evolution of new bacterial microcompartment protein gene classes and core locus constraints. Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 68, Issue 14, 1 June 2017, Pages 3841–3855
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  • Cheryl A. Kerfeld, Matthew R. Melnicki, Markus Sutter, Maria Agustina Dominguez-Martin (2017) Structure, function and evolution of the cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein and its homologs Tansley Review / New Phytologist (link)
  • Han Bao, Matthew R. Melnicki, Emily G. Pawlowski, Markus Sutter, Marco Agostoni, Sigal Lechno-Yossef, Fei Cai, Beronda L. Montgomery & Cheryl A. Kerfeld (2017) Additional families of orange carotenoid proteins in the photoprotective system of cyanobacteria Nature Plants, 3, 17089 (link)
  • Melnicki MR, Leverenz RL, Sutter M, López-Igual R, Wilson A, Pawlowski EG, Perreau F, Kirilovsky D, Kerfeld CA (2016). "Structure, Diversity, and Evolution of a New Family of Soluble Carotenoid Binding Proteins in Cyanobacteria". Molecular Plant, advance online publication. (link to article)
  • López-Igual R, Wilson A, Leverenz RL, Melnicki MR, Bourcier de Carbon C, Sutter M, Turmo A, Perreau F, Kerfeld CA, Kirilovsky D. (2016). "Different functions of the paralogs to the N-terminal domain of the Orange Carotenoid Protein in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120". Plant Physiology 171 (3): 1852-1866. (link to article)
  • Kerfeld CA and Melnicki MR (2016). "Assembly, function and evolution of cyanobacterial carboxysomes". Current Opinion in Plant Biology 31: 66-75 (link to article)
  • Bernstein HC, Charania MA, McClure RS, Sadler NC, Melnicki MR, Hill EA, Markillie LM, Nicora CD, Wright AT, Romine MF, Beliaev AS (2015), "Multi-Omic Dynamics Associate Oxygenic Photosynthesis with Nitrogenase-Mediated H2 Production in Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142", Scientific Reports 5: 16004 (link to article)
  • Work VH, Melnicki MR, Hill EA, Davies FK, Kucek LA, Beliaev AS, Posewitz MC (2015), "Lauric Acid Production in a Glycogen-Less Strain of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002", Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 3:48:1-12
  • Sadler NC, Melnicki MR, Serres MH, Merkley ED, Chrisler WB, Hill EA, Romine MF, Kim S, Zink EM, Datta S, Smith RD, Beliaev AS, Konopka A, Wright AT (2014), “Live Cell Chemical Profiling of Temporal Redox Dynamics in a Photoautotrophic Cyanobacterium”, ACS Chemical Biology 9:291-300
  • Bernstein HC, Konopka A, Melnicki MR, Hill EA, Kucek LA, Zhang S, Shen G, Bryant DA, Beliaev AS (2014), “Effect of mono- and dichromatic light quality on growth rates and photosynthetic performance of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002”, Frontiers in Microbiology 5:468:1-9
  • Melnicki MR, Pinchuk GE, Hill EA, Kucek LA, Stolyar SM, Fredrickson JK, Konopka A, Beliaev AS (2013), “Feedback-controlled LED photobioreactor for photophysiological studies of cyanobacteria”, Bioresource Technol 134:127-133
  • Melnicki MR, Pinchuk GE, Hill EA, Kucek LA, Fredrickson JK, Konopka A, Beliaev AS (2012), “Sustained H2 production Driven by Photosynthetic Water Splitting in a Unicellular Cyanobacterium”, mBio vol. 3 no. 4 ee0197-12
  • Melnicki MR, Eroglu E, Melis A (2009), “Changes in hydrogen production and polymer accumulation upon sulfur-deprivation in purple photosynthetic bacteria”, Int J Hyd Energy 34:6157-6170
  • Melnicki MR, Bianchi L, De Philippis R, Melis A (2008), “Hydrogen production during stationary phase in purple photosynthetic bacteria”, Int J Hyd Energy 33:6525-6534
  • Melis A, Melnicki MR (2006), “Integrated Biological Hydrogen Production”, Int J Hyd Energy 31:1563-1573