| Saturday |
| 2:00 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 | Photoprotection in the Chromalveolates |
| Discussion Leader: Volha Chukhutsina (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
| 3:45 pm - 3:55 pm | Otilia Cheregi (Umea University, Sweden)
"Photoprotection in the Cryptophyte Model Alga Guillardia theta: Role of State Transitions" |
| 3:55 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 4:10 pm | Alistair Laos (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
"Tuneable Light Harvesting and Folding of a Photosynthetic Antenna Protein: Insights into Photoprotection" |
| 4:10 pm - 4:15 pm | Discussion |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Photosystems Function and Assembly |
| Discussion Leader: David Vinyard (Yale University, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Petra Fromme (Arizona State University, USA)
"Towards Molecular Movies of Photosystems in Action with Free Electron Lasers" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Gal Wittenberg (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany)
"Studying Photosystem I Assembly in Higher Plants by Following the Assembly Factor Ycf4" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Wojciech Giera (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
"Excitation Energy Transfer from Beta-Carotene to Chlorophyll A in the Core Antenna System of Algal Photosystem I" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Sahr Khan (Yale University, USA)
"Photosynthesis Oxygen Isotope Effect Decoded" |
| 8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
| 8:55 pm - 9:05 pm | Makio Yokono (Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan)
"Interspecies Distribution of PSI-PSII Megacomplex May Relate to Quenching Ability of PSI" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Photosynthesis in a Variable Environment |
| Discussion Leader: Anna Matuszynska (Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Sabeeha Merchant (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Chlamy in the Light" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 9:50 am | Jennifer Yarnold (The Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Australia)
"The Effects of Photoacclimation and Light Regulation on Productivity of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in Fluctuating Light" |
| 9:50 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
| 9:55 am - 10:05 am | Wojciech Nawrocki (Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, CNRS / Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, France)
"The Role of Plastid Terminal Oxidase (PTOX) in Chlamydomonas Chloroplasts" |
| 10:05 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am - 10:20 am | Deserah Strand (Michigan State University, USA)
"Evidence for Proton Motivity of the Plastidic NADPH Dehydrogenase Complex" |
| 10:20 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
| 10:25 am - 10:35 am | Esther Sundermann (Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany)
"The Effect of Light on the Evolution of C4 Plants" |
| 10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 11:00 am | General Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| 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 | Mechanistic Insights into Photoprotection
in the Green Lineage |
| Discussion Leader: Alizée Malnoë (University of California, Berkeley, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:40 pm | Alberta Pinnola (University of Verona, Italy)
"Heterologous Expression in Nicotiana benthamiana and Nicotiana tabacum Shows ppLHCSR1 Is a Chlorophyll A-Only Pigment-Protein Complex Active in Non-Photochemical Quenching" |
| 1:40 pm - 1:45 pm | Discussion |
| 1:45 pm - 1:55 pm | Pengqi Xu (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Molecular Insights into Zeaxanthin-Dependent Quenching in Higher Plants" |
| 1:55 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
| 2:00 pm - 2:10 pm | Michael Gruber (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Fluorescence Kinetics of Single Light Harvesting Complexes and PSII-Supercomplexes of Plants" |
| 2:10 pm - 2:15 pm | Discussion |
| 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
