conference program
guest speakers
dr. roberto bassi
university of verona, italy
The Function of Individual Xanthophyll Species in Light Harvesting and
Photoprotection of the Higher Plant Chloroplast
dr. charles dismukes
princeton university
Nature's Renewable Energy Blueprint: Future Fuel from Photosynthesis and Biomimics
dr. kenneth sauer
university of california, berkeley
Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolution - Past, Present and Future
conference schedule
| Friday: April 21, 2006 |
| 4:00-6:00pm |
arrival and registration |
| 5:00pm |
cocktails |
| 6:00pm |
dinner |
| 7:30pm |
welcome and opening remarks |
| 7:45pm |
session a: oxygen evolution
chair: dr. harry frank
- Invited Lecture: Dr. Kenneth Sauer: Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolution - Past, Present and Future
- Presentation A1: Victor S. Batista: QM/MM Model of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II
|
| 9:00pm |
mixer and poster viewing |
| Saturday: April 22, 2006 |
| 7:30-8:30am |
breakfast |
| 8:45am |
session a: oxygen evolution (continued)
- Presentation A2: James McEvoy: Analysis of Proposed Mechanisms of Water Splitting in Photosystem II
|
| 9:00am |
session b: photosystem i
chair: dr. j. golbeck
- Presentation B1: Mark Heinnickel: Identification of a Ferredoxin-like Protein (PshB)
that binds the Terminal Electron Acceptors (FA and FB) in Heliobacterium modesticaldum
- Presentation B2: Wade Johnson: Quantification of in vivo
supplemented anthraquinones incorporated into PS I complexes of synechocystis sp. pcc 6803 mutants lacking phylloquinone
- Presentation B3: Sreeja Parameswaran: On the origin of the
1656(+)/1637(-) cm-1 difference band in (p700+-p700) ftir difference spectra: low temperature ftir
difference spectroscopy for the study of p700
in y(b718)t mutant cyanobacterial PS I particles
- Presentation B4: Art van der Est: The Role of Aspartate
D556psaB in Electron Transfer through Phylloquine in PS I
|
| 10:15am |
coffee break |
| 10:45am |
session b: photosystem i (continued)
- Presentation B5: Priyangika Jayaweera: Time-Resolved Ftir Difference Spectroscopy Used to Study Photosystem I Particles with Different Quinones Occupying the A1 Binding Site
|
| 11:00am |
session c
- Presentation C1: Dr. O. Onder: Comparative Proteomics Reveals that the
Amount of the Periplasmic Protease degp Becomes Crucial in the Absence of the Dithiol: Disulfide
Oxidoreductase dsba
- Presentation C2: Dariusz Niedzwiedski: Femtosecond Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy of Xanthophylls
- Presentation C3: Klaas J. van Wijk: Protein profiling of plastoglobules in chloroplasts and chromoplasts; a surprising site for differential accumulation of metabolic enzymes
- Presentation C4: Christian Fufezan: Influence of the Redox Potential of QA on Photoinhibition
|
| 12:15pm |
lunch |
| 1:30-4:00pm |
exhibits and free time |
| 4:00pm |
poster session |
| 5:00pm |
cocktails, poster session continues |
| 6:00pm |
dinner |
| 7:00pm |
session d: light harvesting
chair: dr. d. bruce
- Invited Lecture: Dr. Roberto Bassi: The Function of Individual Xanthophyll Species in Light Harvesting and Photoprotection of the Higher Plant Chloroplast
|
| 8:00pm |
mixer and poster viewing |
| Sunday: April 23, 2006 |
| 7:30-8:30am |
breakfast and preliminary check-out |
| 8:45am |
session d: light harvesting (continued)
- Presentation D1: Robert A. Niederman: Unusual properties
of the light-harvesting 1 complex of purple bacteria: structural implications of nonconservative near-ir
circular dichroism spectrum
- Presentation D2: Ruili Wang: Density functional theory based
calculations for the study of the vibrational properties of chlorophyll a
- Presentation D3: Robielyn Ilagan: Spectroscopic
Studies of the Main-form and High-salt Peridinin-chlorophyll a-protein from amphidinium carterae
- Presentation D4: Dion Durnford: The Evolution of the LHC Superfamily in Chl A/B-containing Organisms
- Presentation D5: Julia A. Maresca: Identification of a Gene
Cluster Responsible for the Brown Phenotype In Green Sulfur Bacteria
|
| 10:15am |
coffee break |
| 10:30am |
meeting of pi's in the lecture hall |
| 10:45am |
session e
- Invited Lecture: Dr. G.C. Dismukes: Nature's Renewable Energy Blueprint: Future Fuel from Photosynthesis and Biomimics
|
| 11:45am |
closing remarks |
| 12:00pm |
lunch |
| 1:00pm |
departure |
