Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Photosynthetic Oxygen Production: Mechanisms and Consequences
Discussion Leader: Casper de Lichtenberg (Umeå University, Sweden)
3:45 pm - 4:25 pm
Elisabet Romero (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Spain)
"The Quantum Design of Solar-Energy Conversion in Photosynthesis"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Advances in Method Development for Photosynthesis Research
Discussion Leader: Doran Bennett (Southern Methodist University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 7:50 pm
Nathan Ennist (University of Washington, USA)
"Designing Light Harvesting Proteins De Novo "
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Mahboobe Jassas (Kansas State University, USA)
"Hole-Burning Spectroscopy Reveals the Same Low-Energy Trap States for the Baseplates of Cfx. aurantiacus and Cb. tepidum "
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Nicoletta Liguori (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Molecular Anatomy of Plant Photoprotective Switches: The Sensitivity of PsbS to the Environment, Residue by Residue"
8:30 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Heta Mattila (University of Turku, Finland)
"Does Photosystem II Convert Nascent Oxygen into Singlet Oxygen?"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm
Wojciech Wietrzynski (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
"Charting the Native Architecture of Thylakoid Membranes with Cryo-EM Tomography"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Metabolism and Mutagenesis of Photosynthetic Systems
Discussion Leader: Yuval Milrad (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:20 am
Wojciech Nawrocki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Photoprotection in Chlamydomonas Grown in Physiological Conditions"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
Olivia Fiebig (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Comparison of the Energy Transfer Dynamics in Structural and Spectral Variants of the Light-Harvesting Complex 2 of Purple Bacteria"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Andrey Kanygin (Arizona State University, USA)
"Rewiring Photosynthesis for Biohydrogen Production"
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:20 am
Jingfang Hao (Umeå Plant Science Center / Umeå University, Sweden)
"Investigation of the Molecular Mechanism of Sustained Energy Dissipation, qH, in Arabidopsis "
10:20 am - 10:25 am
Discussion
10:25 am - 10:40 am
Ansul Lokdarshi (University of Tennessee, USA)
"Regulation of Translation in Response to Chloroplastic Reactive Oxygen by the Protein Kinase GCN2"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 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 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Biomimetic Photosynthesis
Discussion Leader: Brian Wadsworth (Arizona State University, USA)
1:30 pm - 1:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
1:35 pm - 1:50 pm
Ashley Hancock (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
"Proteoliposomes as Energy Transferring Nanomaterials: Enhancing the Spectral Range of Light-Harvesting Proteins Using Lipid-Linked Chromophores"
1:50 pm - 1:55 pm
Discussion
1:55 pm - 2:10 pm
Valentin Maffeis (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Spain)
"Chromophore-Protein Assemblies: Multiple Binding and Interactions in De Novo Proteins"
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