| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Speaker |
| Discussion Leader: Gary F. Moore (JCAP, Berkeley Lab) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Gary W. Brudvig (Yale University)
"Photosynthetic Water Oxidation: Learning from Nature How to Produce Solar Fuels" |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Artificial Photosynthesis |
| Discussion Leader: Kimberly Rendek (Arizona State University) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Benjamin Sherman (Arizona State University)
"Balancing spectroscopic and redox properties in a dye-sensitized tandem junction system for the photolysis of water" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Yujie Sun (UC Berkeley)
"Molecular Approaches to Electro- and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation from Water"
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| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Dibyendu Mukherjee (University of Tennessee)
"Characterization of Surface Assembled Photosystem I (PSI): Towards Future Bio-hybrid Photovoltaic Devices"
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| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Amanda Applegate (The Pennsylvania State University)
"Solar Hydrogen-Producing Bionanodevice Outperforms Natural Photosynthesis"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Bio-derived Energy and Natural Photosynthesis |
| Discussion Leader: Katharina Brinkert (Uppsala University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Hui Zhou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Refactoring the key photosynthetic pigment bacteriochlorophyll a from Rhodobacter sphaeroides"
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| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Elisabet Romero (VU University of Amsterdam)
"Quantum Coherent Charge Separation in the Photosytem II Reaction Center"
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| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Ruchira Chatterjee (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
"Pulsed EPR Studies of Photosystem II elucidating the mechanism of Solar Water Oxidation" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Nicholas Cox (MPI Muelheim)
"Detection of water binding sites of the OEC of PII using high field (94 GHz) 17O-EDNMR spectroscopy" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Computational Aspects |
| Discussion Leader: Ravi Pokhrel (Yale University) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Abdullah Mahboob (Brock University)
"Computational and experimental studies to determine the redox potential of ZnCe6 in solution and in the Bacterioferritin artificial 'reaction center'" |
| 1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Muhamed Amin (The City University of New York)
"A simple, classical model to study high-valent dinuclear oxomanganese model complexes and its relevance to the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II" |
| 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
