| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NEW STRUCTURES AND A LONG VIEW OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Session Chair: Werner Kuhlbrandt (Max-Plank Institute of Biophysics Frankfurt) |
| 7:45 pm - 8:05 pm | Petra Fromme (Arizona State University)
"Structures of Photosystem I and II - from evolution to functional aspects of water splitting" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Aleks Roszak (University of Glasgow)
"Structures of LHI - RC complexes" |
| 8:35 pm - 9:05 pm | Paul Falkowski (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
"The evolution of coupled redox reactions in Earth's history" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion Leader: James Barber (Imperial College, London) |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ENERGY TRANSFER IN ANTENNA SYSTEM |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Chair: Richard Cogdell (Glasgow University) |
| 9:20 am - 9:45 am | Klaus Schulten (University of Illinois)
"PS1 light harvesting dynamics and spectral properties" |
| 9:50 am - 10:10 am | Giulio Cerullo (Politecnico di Milano)
"Novel excited states of carotenoids seen in a few femtoseconds" |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:10 am | Tomas Polívka (Lund University)
"Dynamics of carotenoid relaxation and energy transfer" |
| 11:15 am - 11:35 am | Bob Blankenship (Arizona State University)
"Energy transfer within clusters of PSI" |
| 11:40 am - 12:30 pm | Discussion Leader: Harry Frank (University of Connecticut) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EVOLVING METHODOLOGY |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Chair: David M. Tiede (Argonne National Laboratory) |
| 7:50 pm - 8:15 pm | Steve Boxer (Stanford University)
"Supported bilayers and tethered vesicles: reaction centers can get you into interesting fields" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Ann McDermott (Columbia University)
"NMR studies of the light harvesting I complex" |
| 8:45 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion Leader: Neal Woodbury (Arizona State University) |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session and Mixer |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | THE OXYGEN EVOLVING COMPLEX |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Chair: David Britt (University of California at Davis) |
| 9:20 am - 9:40 am | Gary Brudvig (Yale University)
"Water oxidation chemistry of photosystem II and functional models" |
| 9:45 am - 10:05 am | Vasili Petrouleas (NCSR "Demokritos")
"Metallo-radical intermediates of the oxygen evolving complex" |
| 10:05 am - 10:35 am | Coffee |
| 10:35 am - 10:55 am | James Mayer (University of Washington)
"Model systems to understand proton-coupled electron transfer" |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Peter Faller (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, Toulouse)
"Tyrosine oxidation: proton and electron transfer" |
| 11:25 am - 12:30 pm | Discussion Leader: Bill Rutherford (CEA Saclay) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ELECTRON AND PROTON TRANSFERS |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: Colin Wraight (University of Illinois)
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| 7:55 pm - 8:20 pm | Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Pennsylvania State University)
"Coupling electron, proton transfers and the environment" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:50 pm | Justine Roth (University of California, Berkeley)
"A Marcus-Hush approach to understanding enzyme-catalyzed redox reactions" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion Leader: Jose Onuchic (University of California, San Diego) |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session and Mixer |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DESIGN OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC ELECTRON TRANSFER PROTEINS |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Chair: Dewey Holten (Washington University) |
| 9:20 am - 9:40 am | Jeffrey Reimers (University of Sydney)
"Nature of the special pair radical cation in photosynthetic reaction centres" |
| 9:45 am - 10:05 am | Andy Webber (Arizona State University)
"Mutants around the PSI donor" |
| 10:05 am - 10:35am | Coffee Break |
| 10:35 am - 10:55 am | Dietmar Stehlik (Freie Universtität Berlin)
"Mutant and Structure-based EPR Studies of Cofactor Function in
the Electron Transfer Chain of) Photosystem I" |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | JoAnn Williams (Arizona State University)
"Bacterial reaction centers with new photochemical properties" |
| 11:25 am - 12:30 pm | Discussion Leader: Bill Parson (University of Washington) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business meeting |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SUBSTRATE POSITION AND MOTION: THE REACTION CENTER QUINONE |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Chair: Roy Lancaster (Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt) |
| 7:55 pm - 8:20 pm | Jim Allen (University of Arizona)
"Comparison of X-ray structures of bacterial reaction centers" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:45 pm | Ralph Wheeler (University of Oklahoma)
"Conformational gate controlling binding site and migration for QB" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Eliane Nabedryk (CEA Saclay)
"Vibrational spectroscopy favors QB in the proximal position" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion Leader: Mark Paddock (University of California, San Diego) |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session and Mixer |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PROTEIN DOCKING AND REDOX CONTROL OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Chair: Fevzi Daldal (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 9:20 am - 9:45 am | Melvin Okamura (University of California, San Diego)
"Docking and Electron Transfer Reactions between Cytochrome c2 and Reaction Centers from Rb. sphaeroides" |
| 9:50 am - 10:15 am | Marcellus Ubbink (Leiden University)
"Transient Complexes of Redox Proteins Studied by NMR" |
| 10:20 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:15 am | Catherine de Vitry (UPR-CNRS)
"Site-directed mutagenesis of the Rieske protein in eukaryotic photosynthesis aimed at studying its translocation, electron transfer and signal transduction properties" |
| 11:20 am - 11:45 am | David Knaff (Texas Tech University)
"Switching between photosynthesis and respiration in purple bacteria" |
| 11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Discussion Leader: Sabeeha Merchant (UCLA) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | KEN SAUER RETROSPECTIVE AND YOUNG INVESTIGATORS TALKS |
| Chair: Marian Thurnauer (Argonne National Laboratory) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Jean-Luc Popot (C.N.R.S./Université Paris)
"X-ray crystallographic study of the cytochrome b6f complex from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:05 pm | Chair: Marian Thurnauer |
| 8:05 pm - 8:50 pm | Young investigator talks |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Introducing Ken Sauer: Friends of Ken |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Ken Sauer (University of California, Berkeley)
"A Physical Chemist's Guide to Photosynthesis" |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session and Mixer |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
