Håkan Nilsson

My tasks includes installing and maintaining measuring instruments. In addition, I am responsible for collecting data on the behalf of SITES Water and SITES Spectral. The activities at Röbäcksdalens field research station are characterized by the experimental fields. These fields are studied during growing season using fixed spectral sensors together with aerial multispectral imaging via drones (SITES Spectral). The creek of Degernäs that criss-cross the experimental fields is continuously studied with respect to water chemistry (SITES Water). In addition to the SITES sphere of activities at SLU Röbäcksdalen, I am also responsible for the operation of the field station spectral laboratory.

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My early interest in technology and solving technical problems eventually developed towards the natural sciences. I began my professional career as a metalworker followed by further education in molecular biology and a PhD in chemistry.

Chrysina, Maria., Heyno, Eiri., Kutin, Yury., Reus, Michael., Nilsson, Håkan., Nowaczyk, Marc M., DeBeer, Serena., Neese, Frank., Messinger, Johannes., Lubitz, Wolfgang., Cox, Nicholas. 2019. Five-coordinate MnIV intermediate in the activation of nature’s water splitting cofactor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (34): 16841-16846.

Young, D. Iris et al. 2016. Structure of photosystem II and substrate binding at room temperature. Nature, 540 (7633): 453–457

Nilsson, Håkan., Cournac, Laurent., Rappaport, Fabrice., Messinger, Johannes och Lavergne, Jérôme. 2015. Estimation of the driving force for dioxygen formation in photosynthesis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Bioenergetics, 1857 (1): 23-33

Yano, Junko., Kern, Jan., Yachandra, Vittal K., Nilsson, Håkan., Koroidov, Sergey och Messinger, Johannes. 2015. Light-Dependent Production of Dioxygen in Photosynthesis. Sustaining Life on Planet Earth: Metalloenzymes Mastering Dioxygen and Other Chewy Gases. Springer International Publishing, Metal ions in life sciences, 15

Nilsson, Håkan. Substrate water binding to the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II. Diss., Umeå universitet, 2014

Nilsson, Håkan., Rappaport, Fabrice., Boussac, Alain och Messinger, Johannes. 2014. Substrate-water exchange in photosystem II is arrested before dioxygen formation. Nature Communications, 5: 4305

Nilsson, Håkan., Krupnik, Tomasz., Kargul, Joanna och Messinger, Johannes. 2014. Substrate water exchange in photosystem II core complexes of the extremophilic red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Bioenergetics, 1837 (8): 1257-1262

Navarro, Montserrat Péres., Ames, William M., Nilsson, Håkan., Lohmiller, Thomas., Pantazis, Dimitrios A., Rapatskiy, leonid., Novaczyk, Mark M., Neese, Frank., Boussac, Alain., Messinger, Johannes., Lubitz, Wolfgang och Cox, Nicholas. 2013. Ammonia binding to the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II identifies the solvent-exchangeable oxygen bridge (μ-oxo) of the manganese tetramer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 (39): 15561-15566

Björnham, Oscar., Nilsson, Håkan., Andersson, Magnus och Schedin, Staffan. 2009. Physical properties of the specific PapG-galabiose binding in E. coli P pili-mediated adhesion. European Biophysics Journal, 38 (2): 245-254