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Photosynthesis (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

Energy at the Interface: Photons to Chemical Bonds, and Back Again

August 9 - 10, 2014
Chair
Mount Snow
89 Grand Summit Way
West Dover, Vermont, United States
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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Photosynthesis is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is not only the efficiency by which we can convert sunlight into chemical energy through photosynthetic processes, but new areas of research enabling the reconversion of that energy into other forms useful to human technology.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Photosynthesis" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

SATURDAY
1:00 pm - 5:00 pmArrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pmArtificial Light Harvesting
Discussion Leader: Charusheela Ramanan (VU University)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pmDorthe Eisele (MIT)
"Robust Excitons Inhabit Soft Supra-Molecular Nanotubes"
4:00 pm - 4:05 pmDiscussion
4:05 pm - 4:20 pmCharusheela Ramanan (VU University)
"The Role of Excitons in Mediating Energy Transfer in LHCII"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pmDiscussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPhotosystem Engineering
Discussion Leader: Katharina Brinkert (Imperial College)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmLeslie Dutton (University of Pennsylvania)
"Engineering Manmade Photosystems In Vitro and In Vivo"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pmDiscussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pmSarah Soltau (Argonne National Laboratory)
"Ferredoxin-Catalyst Complexes for Artificial Photosynthetic Hydrogen Production"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pmPatrick Saboe (Pennsylvania State University)
"Two-Dimensional Protein Crystals for Solar Energy Conversion"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pmDiscussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pmDiana Cedeno (Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis)
"Using Molecular Design to Control the Performance of Hydrogen Producing Polymer-Modified Photocathodes"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pmDiscussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pmKatharina Brinkert (Imperial College London)
"(Spectro-)Electrochemical Investigations of Photosystem II and the Effect of Oxygen"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 amAlternative Pathways
Discussion Leader: Orly Levitan (Rutgers University)
9:00 am - 9:30 amDerek Loveley (University of Massachusetts)
"Artificial Photosynthesis: Wiring Acetogens to Solar-Powered Electrodes for Efficient Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Organic Commodities"
9:30 am - 9:40 amDiscussion
9:40 am - 9:55 amDaniel Canniffe (University of Sheffield)
"Engineered Biosynthesis of Bacteriochlorophyll B in Rhodobacter sphaeroides"
9:55 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 10:15 amLuca Bersanini (University of Turku)
"Dissecting the Photoprotective Mechanism Encoded by the flv4-2 Operon in Cyanobacteria"
10:15 am - 10:20 amDiscussion
10:20 am - 10:35 amSrividya Ganapathy (Leiden Institute)
"Spectral Modulation of Rhodopsin-Proton Pumps"
10:35 am - 10:40 amDiscussion
10:40 am - 10:55 amOrly Levitan (Rutgers University)
"The Intelligent Design of Algal Biofuels"
10:55 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pmPoster Session II
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmPhotoprotection
Discussion Leader: Nicoletta Liquori (VU University Amsterdam)
1:30 pm - 1:45 pmAnat Shperberg Avni (Weizmann Institute of Science)
"Electron Microscopy Study of State Transitions in Cyanobacteria"
1:45 pm - 1:50 pmDiscussion
1:50 pm - 2:05 pmMichal Gwizdala (VU University Amsterdam)
"Switching Fluorescence of a Single Phycobilisome Off and On - New Mechanistic Details of the OCP-Induced Photoprotective Mechanism"
2:05 pm - 2:10 pmDiscussion
2:10 pm - 2:25 pmNicoletta Liquori (VU University Amsterdam)
"The C-Terminus of LHCSR Drives a Peculiar pH-Dependent Quenching Which is Absent in All Related PSII Antennae"
2:25 pm - 2:30 pmDiscussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
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3:00 pmSeminar Concludes

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