Structure and function of light harvesting complexes
This session will take place on Monday 23rd July (pm).
The draft programme for the session is as follows:
Chair: Prof. Neil Hunter, Dr. Mike Jones and Prof. Bruno Robert
14:15 Introduction
14:25 Dr Jan Dekker (VU University Amsterdam)
Photoprotective role of the IsiA chlorophyll-binding protein in cyanobacteria [PS3.1]
14:50 Prof. Jürgen Köhler (University of Bayreuth)
Purple Bacteria in the Light of Single-Molecule Spectroscopy [PS3.2]
15:15 Prof Noam Adir (Technion)
Structural aspects of the Assembly and Disassembly of the Phycobilisome [PS3.3]
15:35 Dr Sergei Savikhin (Purdue University)
Novel photo-protection mechanism in strongly coupled chlorophyll complexes: triplet excitons in chlorosomes
and in artificial chlorophyll aggregates [PS3.4]
15:55 Discussion
16:30 Refreshments Break
