Program
Sunday 7 August 2016
08.00 - 17.00 | Room: Trajectum - Lobby ¦ Booth setup |
15.30 - 18.30 | Room: Trajectum - Expo Foyer ¦ Registration and Poster boarding |
18.30 - 20.00 | Room: Trajectum ¦ Welcome reception |
Monday 8 August 2016
08.30 - 08.40 | Room: Auditorium 1: Opening Ceremony | |||
08.40 - 09.00 | Room: Auditorium 1: Louise Fresco (Wageningen University & Research, NL) Photosynthesis in a changing world | |||
09.00 - 09.30 | Room: Auditorium 1: Winner of the lifetime award: Jean-David Rochaix (University of Geneva, CH) The last secrets of the chloroplast genome | |||
09.30 - 10.00 | Coffee break - Trajectum / Lobby | |||
10.00 - 12.30 |
Paralllel Symposia Session: Light harvesting and its regulation Part 1 Room: Auditorium 1 |
Paralllel Symposia Session: Rubisco and photorespiration Room: Auditorium 2 |
Paralllel Symposia Session: Monitoring and modelling photosynthesis at the global scale Room: 0.4
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Paralllel Symposia Session: Evolution of photosynthesis Room: 0.5 |
10.00 - 10.25 |
Dan Caniffe (Penn State Univ., USA) A paralog of a Photosystem II ore subunit is the light-dependent chorophyl f synthase (ChIF) |
Hermann Bauwe (Univ. Rostock, DE) The interplay between photospiration, the Calvin-Benson cycle and other metabolism. |
Uwe Rasher (Forschungsz. Jülich, DE) The FLEX satellite mission - Imaging and understanding sub-induced fluorescence from the single leaf to the satellite.
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Steven Ball (Univ. Lille/CNRS, FR) Was the chamydial adaptive strategy to tryp |
10.25 - 10.50 |
Alexander Ruban (Q Mary, London, UK) Regulation of light harvesting in plants: mechanism and efficiency |
Whitney Spencre (ANU Camberra, AU) Improvind plant photosynthesis and growth via Rubisco engineering. |
Max Gorbunov (Rutgers Univ. US) Photosysnthesis in the global ocean from space. |
J. Clark Lagarias (UC David, US) Evolution of Bilin-Based photoreceptor for regulation and optimalization of energy harvesting.
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10.50 - 11.05 |
Stefano Caffarri (Univ. Aix-Marseille, FR) hlamydomonas reinhardtii PsbS is functional and accumulates rapidly and transiently under hight light. |
Laura Gunn (Uppsala Univ. SE) A unique Large-subunit loop acts as an in-built Small-subunits in Rubisci from Methanoccocides burtonii. |
Christiaan van der Tol (Twente Univ. NL) Chlorophyll fluorescence and hyperspectral reflectance as remote sensin measures of photosynthesis.
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Tanai Cardona (Imperial Coll. London, UK) Timing the origin of the Mn4Ca05 cluster of Photosystem II. |
11.05 - 11.20 |
Lijin Tian (VU Amsterdam, NL) LHCSR1 induces a fast and reversible pH dependent fluorescence quenching in LHCII in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells |
Rebekka Wachter (ASU Tempe, US) Assembly and regulation of higher plant Rubisco Activase. |
Atsuko Kanazawa (MSU, US) Corelspeq and Photosynq: An open field-distrubitable platform for probing Coral photosynthesis and health on local and global scales.
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John Allen (UC London, UK) Properties if a conserved two-component transcriptional redox regulatory system in cyanobacteria and chloroplasts. |
11.20 - 11.35 |
Alizee Malnoe (UC Berkeley, USA) The chloroplastic lipocalin in involved in a sustained photoprotective mechanism regulated by the Suppressor of Quenching 1 protein in Arabidobsis thaliana. |
Devendra Shivhare (Nanyang Tech.Univ., SG) Insights into Rubisco activase mechanism abd thermostability gleaned from bioprospecting. |
Rhys Wyber (Wollongon Univ. AU) Daily solar induced fluorescence reflects electron transport rates and nonphotochemical quenching in two plant species. |
Alessandro Alboresi (Univ. Padova, IT) Structural and functional analysis if PSI-LHC of Nannochloropsis ganditana revealed specific adaptation of the photosynthesis apparatus in a secondary endosymbiont alga.
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11.40 - 12.30 | Discussion: Light harvesting and its regulation: eukaryots. | Discussion: Rubisco and potorespiration |
Discussion: Monitoring and modelling photosynthesis at the global scale. |
Discussion: Evolution of photosynthesis. |
12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch break - Trajectum / Lobby | |||
13.30 - 16.00 |
Paralllel Symposia Session: Chloroplast development and assembly of the photosynthetic apparatus Room: Auditorium 1
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Paralllel Symposia Session: CO2 diffusion and transport Room: Auditorium 2 |
Paralllel Symposia Session: Photosynthetic phenomics / phenotyping Room: 0.4 |
Paralllel Symposia Session: Engineering new photosynthetic complexes and biohybrids Room: 0.5 |
13.30 - 13.55 |
Joseph Komenda (CAS, CZ) Mechanisms protecting the Photosystem II assembly process in cyanobacteria.
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John Evans (ANU, AU) CO2 diffusion and transport within leaves during photosynthesis. |
Bart Nicolai (KU Leuven, BE) X-ray and neutron microtomography for visualising leaf anatomy in 3-D. |
Joanna Kargul (Warsaw Univ., PL) Nanoengineering the interfaces in PSI-based solar-to-fuel devices and biophotodiodes. |
13.55 - 14.20 |
Francis-André Wollmann (CNRS, FR) The role of FtsH in the accomulation and assembly of thylokoid membrane proteins. |
Tracy Lawson (Essex Univ. UK) Effects of fluctuating light on photosynthesis and stomatal behaviour impacts on carbon gain and water use efficiency. |
Jeff Cruz (MSI, US) High throughput phenotyping og photosynthesis to identify relevant quantitative trait loci abd underlying genes in Arabidopsis thaliana.
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Dror Noy (Migal-Galilee RL) The water-soluble chlorophyll binding proteins from brassicaceae, a novel building block and template for designing chlorophyll-protein light harvesting arrays. |
14.20 - 14.35 |
Melissa Roth (UC Berkley, US) A molecular switch for oxygenic photosynthesis and metabolism in a unicellular green alga. |
Guilaume Théroux-Rancourt (UC Davis, US) Structural control of the light response of mesophyll conductance across leaf profiles. |
Mark Aarts (Wageningen UR, NL) High trhoughput phenotyping of photosynthesis to identify relevant quantitative trait loci and underlaying genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. |
Michael Jones (Bristol Univ. UK) Developments in the self-assembly of biohybrid materials employing purple bacterial reaction centres for solar energy conversion.
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14.35 - 14.50 |
Jianfeng Yu (Imperial Coll. London, UK) Structural and functional analysis of the conserved Ycf48 protein involved in the assembly and repair of Photosystem II |
Bernard Genty (CEA/CNRS, FR) The contribution of cytosolic carbonic anhydrase activity in facilitating CO2 transport in mesophyll. |
Onno Muller (Forschungsz. Jülich, DE) Photosynthetic phenotyping in the field and greenhouse using the Light Induced Fluorescence Transient (LIFT) method with multiple positioning systems.
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Alistair Laos (UNSW, AU) Cooperative subunit refolding of a light harvesting protein through a self-chaperone mechanism. |
14.50 - 15.05 |
Sonja Begner (MPI-Golm, DE) Functional characterization of the plastid-encoded Psal subunit of Photosystem I in tobacco. |
Asaph Cousins (WSU, US) Temperature response of mesophyll conductance in three C4 species. |
Riichi Oguichi (Tohoku Univ., JP) Causes of errors in the estimation of photosynthetic activity of higher plant leaves using conventional chlorophyll fluorometers.
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Dan Kallmann (Technio, IIT, IL) A complete Bio-Photo_electro-Chemical cell: From cyanoacteria to a hydrogenase thru an alternative Z scheme. |
15.10 - 16.00 |
Discussion: Chloroplast development and assembly of the photosynthetic appratuss.
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Discussion: CO diffusion and transport.
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Discussion: Photosynthetic phenomics /phenothyping.
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Discussion: Engineering new photosynthetic complexes and biohybrids.
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16.00 - 16.30 | Coffee break - Trajectum / Lobby | |||
16.30 - 17.00 | Room: Auditorium1: Chris Bpwler (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, FR) Tara Oceans: Eco-system Biology at Planetary Scale | |||
17.00 - 17.30 | Room: Auditorium 1: Mei Li (Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN) Strctural analysis of plant photosystem II supercomplex | |||
17.30 - 19.00 | Room: Expo Foyer ¦ Poster viewing |
Tuesday 9 August 2016
08.30 - 09.00 | Room: Auditorium 1: Ron Milo (Weizmann Institute, IL) Sugar synthesis from CO2 in E.coli | |||
09.00 - 09.30 | Room: Auditorium 1: Diana Kirilovsky (CNRS - CEA - Univ. Paris-Saclay, FR) The Orange Carotenoid protein and Photoprotection in Cyanobacteria | |||
09.30 - 10.00 | Coffee break - Trajectum / Lobby | |||
10.00 - 12.30 |
Parallel sessions Session: Water oxidation Room: Auditorium 1 |
Parallel sessions Session: Light harvesting and its regulation part 2 Room: Auditorium 2
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Parallel sessions Session: Systems biology in photosynthesis Room: 0.4 |
Parallel sessions Session: Regulation of carbon assimilation reactions in C3 systems Room: 0.5
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10.00 - 10.25 |
Richard Debus (UC Riverside, US) FTIE Studies of Water Oxidation in Photosystem II. |
Jürgen Köhler (Univ. Bayreuth, DE) Structure of Light-Harvesting Aggregates in individual chlorosomes. |
Sabeeha Merchant (UCLA, US) A day in the life of Chlamydomonas. |
Stefan Timm (Rostock Univ., DE) 2-Prhosphoglycolate levels adjust the Calvin-Benson Activity and Starch Synthesis under harsh environmental conditions in Arabidopsis.
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10.25 - 10.50 |
Holger Dau (Free Univ. Berlin, DE) Protonation synamics in photosynthesis water oxidation. |
Donatas Zigmantas (Univ. Lund,SE) Light harvesting in green sulfur bacteria studied by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. |
Hiroyuki Ishida (Tohoku Univ. JP) Autophagy provides substrates to amino acid catabolic pathways as an adaptive response to Sugar starvation in Arabidopsis. |
Ken Motohashi (Kyoto Sangyo Univ. JP) Thioredoxin-depentent redox regulatory system in chloroplasts.
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10.50 - 11.05 |
Takumi Noguchi (Nagoya Univ. JP) Monitoring the reaction process during the S2- to S3 transition in photosynthetic water oxodation by time-resolve infrared spectroscopy. |
Long-Jiang Yu (Okayama Univ. JP) Crystal structure of LH1-RC supercomplex from Thermochromatium tepidum at 1.9 A resolution. |
Elisa Schulz (MPI-Golm, DE) Global changes in photosynthetic gene expression and lipid composition during leaf ontogenesis of tobacco. |
Lauri Nikkanen (Turku Univ. FL) Regulation of chloroplast biogenesis, photosynthesis and metabolism by the plastidial thioredoxin network. |
11.05 - 11.20 |
Dimitros Pantazis (MPI Mülheim, DE) Interaction of methanol with the oxygen-evolving complex; structural models,species dependence, and mechanistic implications. |
Min Chen (Univ. Sydney, AU) The red-shifted phycobiliprotein complexes. |
Lars Scharff (Univ. Copenhagen, DK) Co-evolution of assembly of photosynthetic omplexes and ribosome pausing. |
Danielle Way (Univ. Western Ontario, CA) Does improved Rubisco carboxylation efficiency enhance plant growth and performance across a broad CO2 concentration gradient? |
11.20 - 11.35 |
Jan Kern (Lawrence Berkley NL, US) Substrate binding to the OEC and mechanism of water oxidation studied by spectroscopy and room temperature is X-ray crystallography of PSII. |
Michal Gwizdala (Univ. Pretoria, SA) Hidden dynamics of phycobilisomes - how their switching depends on illumination. |
David Savage (UC Berkley, US) Fixed: Systems and synthetic biological approaches for improving photosynthesis. |
Florian Busch (ANU, AU) Nitrogen assimilation linked to photorespiration can enhance CO2 assimilation in plants. |
11.40 - 12.30 | Discussion: Water oxidation. | Discussion: Light harvesting and its regulation: prokaryotes. | Discussion: Systems biology in photosynthesis. | Discussion: Regulation of carbon assimilation reactions in C3 systems. |
12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch break - Trajectum / Lobby | |||
13.30 - 16.00 |
Parallel Symposia Session: Electron and proton transfer in photosynthesis Room: Auditorium 1 |
Parallel Symposia Session: C4 and CAM Room: Auditorium 2
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Parallel Symposia Discussion: Excitation energy transfer and quantum effects in photosynthesis. Room: 0.4 |
Parallel Symposia Discussion: Stress, ecophysiology and biodiversity Room: 0.5 |
13.30 - 13.55 |
Han Bao (Oklahoma SU, US) Mutations disturbing water cluster adter the kinetics of the final steps of water oxidation in PSII.
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Erika Edwards (Brown Univ. US) The distinct evolutionary dynamics of C4 and CAM photosynthesis. |
Greg Scholes (Princeton Univ US) Vibronic coherence improves light harvesting. |
Kristine Crous (Western Sydney Univ. AU) How does the photosynthetic capacity of several Eucalyptus species acclimate to warming from warm and cool climates. |
13.55 - 14.20 |
Deserah Strand (MPI-Golm, DE) Reconsidering the redundancy hypothesis of cyclic electron flow.
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James Hartwell (Univ. Liverpool UK) Ground-truthing the biodesign of Crassulacean acid metabolism through functional genomics and transgenic approaches in Kalanchloë. |
Paul Brumer (Univ. Toronto, CA) Quantum coherences in photosynthetic light harvesting? |
Francesco Loreto (CNR, IT) Photosynthesis under pressure: the volatile armament protecting photosynthesis from stresses. |
14.20 - 14.35 |
Julian Eaton-Rye (Univ. Otag, NZ) Targeted mutation of D2 amino acids residues associated with bicarbonate binding and the bicarbonate-dependent protonation of plastoquione B. |
Isabel Abreu (TQB NOVA, PT) New post-tranlational level regulation for key enzymes in maize C4 photosynthesis: PEPC, PPDK and NADP-ME. |
Howe-Siang Tan (Nanyang TU, SG) Studying the excitation energy transfer dynamics of LHCII complexes using 2D and 3D electronic spectroscopy. |
Hesheng Yao (Shihezi Univ. CN) Is diaheliotropic leaf movement a photoacclimation mechanism under soil water deficit? |
14.35 - 14.50 |
Sasha Rexroth (Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, DE) Structural and functional characterisation of the regulatory subunit PetP from the cytochrome b6f complex in Thermosynechococcus elongatus.
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Thomas Jan Wrobel (Düsseldorf Univ. DE) Towards the genetic factors determining C4 specific development in the genus Flaveria. |
Sara Massey(Univ. Chicago, US) Delocalization and energy transfer dynamics in Rhodobacter sphaeroides from two-dimensional anisotrophy spectroscopy. |
Chariloas Yiotis (UC Dublin, IE) Breathing new air: Atmospheric change control of plant evolution. |
14.50 - 15.05 |
Geoffry David (MSI, US) The electric field component of the proton motive force sensitizes Photosystem II to damage.
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Steven Kelly (Univ. Oxford UK) Neccessity is the mother of re-invention: the parallel evolution of C4 photosynthesis. |
Bart van Oort (VU Amsterdam, NL) Hidden electronic states in light-harvesting complex II. |
Haim Treves (Hebrew Univ. Jeruzalem, IL) Chlorella ohodii - The alga that never read the literature. |
15.10 - 16.00 |
Discussion: Electron and proton transfer in photosynthesis.
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Discussion: C4 and CAM
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Discussion: Excitation energy transfer and quantum effects in photosynthesis.
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Discussion: Stress: ecophysiology and biodiversity.
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16.00 - 16.30 | Coffee break - Trajectum / Lobby | |||
16.30 - 17.00 | Room: Auditorium 1: Manajit Heyer-Hartl (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, DE) Chaperone machineries in RuBisCO Biogenesis and Metabolic Repair | |||
17.00 - 17.30 | Room: Auditorium 1: Daniel G. Nocera (Harvard Univ. US) A complete artificial photosynthesis | |||
17.30 - 19.00 | Room: Expo Foyer: Poster viewing | |||
21.00 - 24.00 | Party |
Wednesday 10 August 2016
09.00 - 09.30 | Room: Auditorium 1: Winner of the Hill award: Nick Cox (ANU, AU & MPI, DE) Substrate binding and activation of Nature's water splitting catalyst | |||
09.30 - 10.00 | Room: Auditorium 1: Winner of the Calvin award: Andrew Leaky (Univ. of Illinois, US) Rising atmospheric (CO2) as a benefitt and a challenge to improving crop photosynthesis | |||
10.00 - 12.30 |
Parallel Symposia Session: Regulation of electron transfer and alternative electron transport pathways Room: Auditorium 1 |
Parallel Symposia Session: Membrane ultrastructure and dynamics Room: Auditorium 2
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Parallel Symposia Session: Multiscale modeling of photosynthesis from thylakoid to canopy Room: 0.4
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Parallel Symposia Session: CO2 concentration mechanisms of lower plants and (micro)algae Room: 0.5 |
10.00 - 10.25 |
Eva-Mari Aro (Turku Univ. FI) Dynamics of Photosytem I and II in the thylakoid membrane. |
Matt Johnson (Univ. Sheffield, UK) Towards a structural understanding of state transitions in plants. |
Yin Xinyou (Wageningen UR, NL) What has been learned from a generalised modeling of electron transport limited photosynthesis? |
Dean Price (ANU, AU) The functioning of the cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism and progress of transplanting CCM components into C3 plants. |
10.25 - 10.50 |
Toshiharu Shikanai (Kyoto Univ. JP) Regulation of proton motive force in photosynthesis. |
Benjamin Engel (MPI Biochemistry, DE) Native molecular landscape of the chloroplast. |
Berkley Walker (Hienrich Heine Univ. DE) What are the current and future costs of photorespiration to crop production? |
Martin Jonikas (Carnegie IS, US) A repeat protein links Rubisco to form the eukaryotic carbon concentrating organelle. |
10.50 - 11.05 |
Wojciech Nawrocki (CNRS Paris, FR) The role of chlororespiration in chlamydomonas. |
Ryo Yokoyama (Kyoto Univ. JP) Grana-localized proteins, RIQ1 and RIQ2, affect the dynamics of light-harvesting complex II and grana stacking in Arabidopsis. |
Andrew Ringsmuth (VU Amsterdam, NL) Theoretically optimal light harvesting for scalable, maximal photosynthesis. |
Christopher Gee (UC Berkeley, US) The carbonic anhydrase, CAH1, is an essential component of the carbon concentratiing mechanisms in the heterokont microalga, Nannochloropsis oceanica.
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11.05 - 11.20 |
Jessica Wiwczar (Yale Univ. US) Divalent cations modulate QA electron transfer in Photosystem II. |
Dirk Schneider (Univ. Mainz, DE) A membrane fusion protein inside chloroplasts and cyanobacteria.
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Nicolas Bambach-Ortiz (UC Davis, US) A photosynthetic model of heat, water and photoinhibition stress in almond trees. |
Luning Liu (Univ. Liverpool, UK) Light modulates the biosynthesis and organization of cyanobacterial carbon fixation machinery. |
11.20 - 11.35 |
Veronique Larosa (Univ. Padova, IT) A mitochondrial mutation increases high light resistance in Chlamydomonas reindardtii. |
Radek Kana (CAS, CZ) Presence of heterogeneous microdomains in thylakoids of cyanobacteria. |
Alejandro Morales Sierra (Wageningen UR, NL) Modeling C3 photosynthesis under fluctuating light conditions at the leaf and canopy level. |
Ondrei Prasil (CAS, CZ) Inorganic carbon acquisition of Chromera velia.
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11.40 - 12.30 |
Discussion Regulation of electron transfer and alternative electron transport pathways.
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Discussion: Membrane ultrastrcture and dynamics
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Discussion: Multiscale modeling of photosynthesis from thylakoid to canopy. | Discussion: CO2 concentration mechanisms of lower plants and (micro)algae. |
12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch break - Trajectum / Lobby | |||
14.00 | Social activities |
Thursday 11 August 2016
08.30 - 09.00 | Room: Auditorium 1: Andreas Weber (Hienricht Heine Univ. DE) Evolution and function of C4 photosynthesis. | |||
09.00 - 09.30 | Room: Auditorium 1: David Kramer (Michigan State Univ. US) The Gamut of Photosynthesis: What can we learn when bridging the gaps between the lab and the world? | |||
09.30 - 10.00 | Coffee brak - Trajectum / Lobby | |||
10.00 - 12.30 |
Parallel Symposia Session: Acclimation of the photosynthetic apparatus Room: Auditorium 1
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Parallel Symposia Session: Photosynthesis and crop improvement Room: Auditorium 2 |
Parallel Symposia Session: Metabolites and pathways Room:0.4 |
Parallel Symposia Session: Artificial photosynthesis Room: 0.5 |
10.00 - 10.25 |
Michael Hippler (Univ. Munster, DE) Calredoxin - a novel calcium-dependent sensor-responder connected to regulation of photosynthesis.
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Lisa Ainsworth (USDA ARS, US) Improving soybean photosynthesis: insights from 80 years of breeding. |
Hans-Henning Kunz (WSU, US) Photosynthesis and chloroplast function under abiotic stress. |
Chunxi Zhang (Ins. Chemistry, CAS,CN) Artificial Mn4Ca/Mn4Sr-cluster mimicking the oxygen-evolving center in photosynthesis. |
10.25 - 10.50 |
Giovanni Finazzi (CNRS Grenoble, FR) Chloroplast tomography allows revisiting diatoms photosynthesis.
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Elizabete Carmo-Silva (Lancaster Univ. UK) Improving CO2 assimilation in fluctuating environments. |
Katrin Philippar (LMU Munich, DE) Plastid fatty acid export and cellular metabolism. |
Silviu Balaban (Univ. Aix Marseille, FR) Biometric Light-Harvesting. |
10.50 - 11.05 |
Yoshitaka Mishiyama (Saitama Univ. JP) Redox regulation of the repair of photosystem II under photoinhibition.
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Congming Lu (Ist. Botany, CAS, CN) Enhanced sucrose loading improves rice yield by increasing grain size. |
Tasios Melis (UC Berkeley, US) Photosynthesis-driven fuel and chemicals production. |
Gábor Méhes (Linköping Univ. SE) E-Plant Technology and its potential for solar energy harvesting. |
11.05 - 11.20 |
Patricja Haniewicz (Warsaw Univ. PL) Molecular mechanisms of photoprotection in highly robust PSI-LHCI supercomplex from an extremophilic red alga Cyanidoschyzon merolae.
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Ana Karla Lobo (Fed. Univ. Ceara, BR) Increasing RuBisCo efficiency by overexpression of ca1pase in wheat. |
Alena Prusova (Wageningen UR, NL) Source strenght manipulation in tomato changes phloem volume flow, but not flow velocity. |
Jessica de Ruiter (Leiden Univ. NL) A closed system approach for the in-depth investigation of catalytic steps, as illustrated by a copper based water oxidation catalyst. |
11.20 - 11.35 |
Mikko Tikkanen (Turku Univ. FI) Photoinhibition of PSI and PSII as regulatory mechanisms of photosynthetic energy transduction.
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Johannes Kromdijk (Univ. Illinois, US) Plants engineered to have faster relaxation of non-photochemical quenching show increased photosynth |
Yao-Pin Lin (Academia Sinica, TW) Idenfitication of a novel chlorophyll depthtylase involved in chlorophyll turnover and thermotolerance in Arabidobsis. |
Adriano Monti (UC London, UK) A dynamic view of proton-coupled electron transfer in photocatalytic water splitting. |
11.40 - 12.30 |
Discussion: Acclimation of the photosynthetic apparatus.
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Discussion: Photosynthesis and crop improvement.
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Discussion: Metabolites and pathways.
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Discussion: Artificial photosynthesis.
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12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch break - Trajectum / Lobby | |||
13.30 - 16.00 | Room: Expo Foyer: Poster viewing & Auditorium 1: ISPR session, inclusing ISPR announcements & the Frabrice Rappaport lecture give by Angela Falciatore. | |||
16.00 - 16.30 |
Coffee break - Trajectum / Lobby | |||
16.30 - 17.00 | Room: Auditorium 1: Jennifer McElwain (UC Dublin, IE) Palaeo-ecophysiology and atmospheric change over the past 400 milion years. | |||
17.00 - 17.30 | Room: Auditorium 1: Jian-Ren Shen (Okayama Univ. JP) Structural biology of photosynthetic systems. | |||
17.30 - 19.00 | Room: Expo Foyer: Poster viewing | |||
19.30 - 23.30 | Conference Dinner |
Friday 12 August 2016
09.00 - 09.30 | Poster Prizes | |||
09.30 - 10.00 | Coffee break - Trajectum / Lobby | |||
10.00 - 12.30 |
Parallel Symposia Session: Reaction centers Room: Auditorium 1
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Parallel Symposia Session: Chloroplast to nucleus signalling Room: 0.2/0.3 |
Parallel Symposia Session: Photosynthesis in natural ecosystems Room: 0.4 |
Parallel Symposia Session: Biofuel, microbes and cell factories Room: 0.5 |
10.00 - 10.25 |
Junko Yano (Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab, US) Taking snapshots of water oxidation reaction in photosystem II with X-ray chrystallography and X-ray spectroscopy.
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Karin Kruoinska (Christian-Albrechts-Univ., Kiel, DE) Chloroplast stability during high light depends on WHIRLY1 mediated biogenesis of microRNA. |
Nir Keren (Hebrew Univ. Jerusalem, IL) Control over photosynthetic energy transfer by rearrangements of its basic building blocks. |
Shota Atsumi (UC David, US) Global metaboli rewring of an obligate photoautotrophic for production of chemicals under dirunal light conditions. |
10.25 - 10.50 |
Leonas Valkunas (Vilnius Univ. LT) Role of coherent vibrations in photosynthesis.
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Kai Xun Chan (ANU, AU) Learning the language of the chloroplast: how chloroplasts can sense oxidative stress and regulate stomatal function.
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Michael Kühl(Univ. Copenhagen, DK) Microenvironmental aspects of photosynthesis. |
Klaas Hellingwerf (Univ. Amsterdam, NL) Cyanobacterial cell factories of 'direct conversion' of CO2 into commodity products. |
10.50 - 11.05 |
Pavel Maly (VU Amsterdam, NL) Single-molecule spectroscopy observes dynamic disorder in YM210W mutant reaction centers of purple bacteria.
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Haruhiko Jimbo (Saitama Univ. JP) A role of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signalling in accumulation of photosystem II in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. |
Joseph Stinziano (Univ. Western Ontario, CA) Temperature controls timing of autumn decline in photosynthetic capacity but photoperiod controls timing of growth in a boreal conifer.
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Noam Adir (Technion, IL) Utilizing photosynthetic complexes for solar energy conversion: Building a Bio-generator. |
11.05 - 11.20 |
Ivan Proskurykov (IBBP, PPushchino, RU) A "new" mechanism of chlorophyll triplet state quenching.
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Peter Gollan (Turku Univ. FI) Thylakoid membrane proton gradient is important for enzymatic lipid peroxidation and oxylipin signalling in Arabidopsis thaliana.
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Steffen Grebe (Urku Univ. FL) Photosynthetic characteristics of evergreen confifers. |
Masahiko Ikeuchi (Univ. Tokyo, JP) Improving the photosynthetic biomass production in cyanobacteria. |
11.20 - 11.35 |
Christopher Gisriel (ASU, US) Characterization and crystallization of the photosynthetic reaction center in heliobacteria. |
Matthew Terry (Univ. Southhampton, UK) Testigng the hypothesis that heme is a promotive retrograde signal in Arabidopsis. |
Ismael Moya (CNRS Palaiseau, FR) A simple micro-lidar for vegetation monitoring. |
Marcel Janssen (Wageningen Ur, NL) Microalgal antenna size reduction - implications for mass culture. |
11.40 - 12.30 |
Discussion: Reaction centers.
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Discussion: Chloroplast to nucleus signaling.
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Discussion: Photosynthesis in natural ecosystems. |
Discussion: Biofuel, microbes and cell factories.
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12.30 - 13.30 | Room: Auditorium 1: Closing ceremony and announcement next conference |