Photosynthesis 2007 - Tuesday Poster Session
PS1 - Bioenergy
Prof. Isamu Ikegami (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Teikyo University)
Antenna activity of Metal-substituted Chl a bound to the Chl a-binding sites in PS1 RC complexes [PS1.6]
Miss Irene Granlund (Biological Chemistry, Umeå University
The TL29 protein a proposed ascorbate regulator in the thylakoids lumen of Arabidopsis thaliana [PS1.7]
Miss Manuela Zanetti (University of Padova)
A thylakoid prokaryotic potassium channel is involved in the regulation of photosynthesis in cyanobacteria [PS1.8]
Dr Madhavan Soundararajan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Partitioning of carbon into non-structural carbohydrates and cell wall polysaccharides using 13C label in Switchgrass [PS1.9]
Ms Alisa Rupenyan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Entry into the isomerization photocycle of Proteorhodopsin studied by visible and midIR transient femtosecond spectroscopy [PS1.10]
Dr Gilles Peltier (CEA CNRS Cadarache)
Hydrogen photoproduction in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: electron transfer pathways and improvement [PS1.11]
PS2 - Reaction Centres: the powerhouses of photosynthesis
Dr Hirozo Oh-oka (Osaka University)
The Heme-containing Portion of Cytochrome cz from Chlorobium tepidum: Its Over-expression in [PS2.5]
Prof. Dietmar Stehlik (Freie Universität Berlin)
Structure-function relations of the Quinone Electron Acceptor (A1)-site in cyanobacterial Photosystem I [PS2.6]
Dr Imre Vass (Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary)
Energetics of Photosystem II charge recombination in Acaryochloris marina studied by thermoluminescence and flash induced chlorophyll fluorescence measurements [PS2.7]
Mr Krisztian Cser (Institute of Plant Biology)
Regulation of photoprotection by non-radiative charge recombination in Photosystem II [PS2.8]
Dr Zoltan Gombos (Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H–6701 Szeged, Hungary)
Involvement of phosphatidylglycerol in the assembly and function of photosystem II [PS2.9]
Dr Roman Pishchalnikov (Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry)
Theoretical modelling of the optical properties and the exciton dynamics of the isolated PSII reaction centre. [PS2.10]
Ms Malwina Szczepaniak (Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Mülheim, Germany)
Influence of the protein environment on the regulation of the Photosystem II activity – a time-resolved fluorescence study [PS2.11]
Miss Eva-Maria Krammer (Structural Biology/Bioinformatics Group, University of Bayreuth)
The role of AspL213 for the binding of coenzyme Q to the photosynthetic reaction center [PS2.12]
Dr Nina S. Ponomarenko (University of Chicago)
Structural aspects of interactions between the primary donor and cytochrome in heterodimer mutant reaction centers of Blastochloris viridis [PS2.13]
Mr Keisuke Saito (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
Mechanism of spin-triplet-state formation on the accessory chlorophyll in the reaction center of photosystem II [PS2.14]
Dr Masayuki Kobayashi (Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Ariake National College of Technology, Omuta, Japan)
Structure for thermostability of photosynthetic reaction center from thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium, Thermochromatium tepidum. [PS2.15]
Mr Toru Kondo (Nagoya University)
Detection of quinone function in the homodimeric type-I reaction center of Heliobacterium modesticuldum [PS2.16]
Dr Alison Telfer (Imperial College London)
Electron transfer reactions in photosystem I and II of the chlorophyll d containing cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris mari [PS2.17]
Mr Melvin Okamura (University of California, San Diego)
EPR and ENDOR Studies of the Protonated Rhodosemiquinone in the QB Site in Bacterial Reaction Centers Lacking QA. [PS2.18]
Dr Yutaka Shibata (Nagoya University)
Detection of Ultra-Fast Process in the Energy and Electron Transfer Dynamics in Photosystem I Reaction Center [PS2.19]
Mr Nicholas Cox (Australian National University)
The primary electron acceptor of Photosystem II is weakly coupled to the accessory chlorophyll and the plastoquinone QA [PS2.20]
Ms Mariko Sumimoto (Okayama University)
Purification and biochemical characterization of PSI-LHCI supercomplex in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [PS2.21]
Dr Delphine Onidas (Department of Biophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum)
Spectroscopic investigation of electron and proton transfer in the photosynthetic reaction center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides [PS2.22]
Dr Joseph Hughes (Australian National University)
What is the origin of the highly dispersive quantum efficiencies for secondary donor oxidation at low temperature in Photosystem II? [PS2.23]
Dr Shipra Prakash (Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany)
Triplet States in Photosystem II Reaction Centers Studied with EPR and ENDOR Spectroscopy [PS2.24]
Prof. Koichiro Mukai (Tsukuba University)
A model for temperature-dependent peak shift of the bacterial reaction-center absorption [PS2.25]
Mr Konstantinos Loulakakis (Department of Floriculture and Greenhouse Crops, School of Agricultural Technology, Technological Education Institute of Crete,P.O. Box 140, 710 04 Heraklion, Crete, GREECE)
Effect of capsaicin on the photosynthetic performance of Scenedesmus obliquus cultures in vivo [PS2.26]
Mr Rafael Picorel (EEAD-CSIC)
In vitro reconstitution of the cytochrome b559 from higher plants [PS2.27]
Dr Jens Niklas (Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany)
The Electron Acceptor Quinone A1 of Photosystem I Investigated by Pulse EPR and ENDOR Spectroscopy [PS2.28]
Dr James McEvoy (Regis University)
Redox Reactions of the Non-Heme Iron of Photosystem II: An EPR Spectroscopic Study [PS2.29]
Mr Felix Bohles (Queen Mary, University of London)
An investigation into thermodynamics of the thermal denaturation of the reaction centre of Rhodobacter sphaeroides in vitro and reconstituted into liposomes. [PS2.30]
Dr A Alia (Leiden Institute of Chemistry)
Electronic structure of axial histidines in photosynthetic reaction centres of Rhodobacter sphaeroides [PS2.31]
Dr Joanna Stachnik (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Proton uptake in the reaction center mutant L210DN from Rhodobacter sphaeroides via protonated water molecules [PS2.32]
Dr Ronald Steffen (Australian National University)
Secondary Donors in Low-Temperature Optical Spectroscopy of Photosystem II [PS2.33]
Dr Francesco Milano (CNR – Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici)
The lipid environment influence on spectral and kinetic properties of semiquinones in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centres. [PS2.34]
Dr Massimo Trotta (CNR – Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici)
Influence of bilayer thickness on photosynthetic Reaction Centres function. [PS2.35]
Mrs Irina Karyagina (FU Berlin)
The Distant Protein Environment influences the Re-dox Potentials of the Quinone Acceptor A1 and the FX Iron-Sulphur Cluster in Photosystem I: TR EPR Study of Mutants of the D575< [PS2.36]
Prof. James Allen (Arizona State University)
Bacterial reaction centers with bound Mn are capable of light-controlled enzymatic activity [PS2.37]
Mr Rajiv Luthra (University of Alabama)
Mutational analysis of the EC2-EC3 environment in PS1 [PS2.38]
Dr Alfred Holzwarth (Max-Planck-Institut)
Triplet photoprotection by carotenoid in intact photosystem II cores [PS2.39]
Dr Alfred Holzwarth (Max-Planck-Institut)
The dual-branched electron transfer in photosystem I [PS2.40]
Mrs Natalia Paulina Pawlowicz (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Charge separation and energy transfer in the Photosystem II core complex studied by femtosecond mid-infrared spectroscopy. [PS2.41]
Prof. Gary Hastings (Georgia State University)
(A1--A1) FTIR Difference Spectra Obtained using Photosystem I Particles With 18O and Specifically 13C Labeled Quinones Occupying the A1 [PS2.42]
Ms Sreeja Parameswaran (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University)
Calculated Electronic Spectra of Chlorophylls in Solution [PS2.43]
Dr Ruili Wang (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303)
Calculation of the Vibrational Properties of Chlorophyll-a [PS2.44]
Dr Joerg Matysik (Leiden University)
Photo-CIDNP MAS NMR on photosynthetic reaction centres [PS2.45]
Ms Anna Diller (University of Leiden)
The origin of the high redox force of photosystem II: A photo-CIDNP MAS NMR analysis [PS2.46]
Dr Oleg Poluektov (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA)
Time-Resolved High-Field EPR Spectroscopy of Natural Photosynthesis: Photoinduced Electron Transfer Pathways in Photosystem I. [PS2.47]
Mrs Esha Roy (Leiden University)
Photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization studies on photosynthetic reaction centers from diverse organisms [PS2.48]
Mr Alexey Amunts (Tel Aviv University)
The structure of plant photosystem I at 3.4 Å resolution [PS2.49]
Prof. Navassard Karapetyan (A.N. Bakh Institute of Biochemistry RAS)
Origin and function of the long-wavelength chlorophylls of PSI in the cyanobacterium A. platensis. [PS2.50]
Mr Matthias Schenderlein (Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie, TU Berlin, Straße des 17 Juni 135, D-10623 Berlin, Germany,)
Low quantum yield electron transfer pathways in PS II [PS2.51]
Mr Eberhard Schlodder (Max-Volmer-Laboratorium für Biophysikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany)
Temperature Dependence of the Reduction Kinetics of P680+ in Oxygen-Evolving PS II Complexes throughout the range from 320 K to 80 K [PS2.52]
Dr Jacques Breton (Service de Bioénergétique, CEA-Saclay)
Electron Transfer between QA - and QB in Rb. sphaeroides Reaction Centers:Recent Advances from FTIR Difference Spectroscopy [PS2.53]
Dr Krzysztof Gibasiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
A0-?A1 electron transfer in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Photosystem I with replaced A0 axial ligand [PS2.54]
Mr Aliaksandr Marchanka (Max-Planck-Institut for Bioanorganic Chemistry, Stiftstr.34-36 45470 Muelheim, Germany)
Triplet states in photosynthetic reaction centers of Rb. Sphaeroides [PS2.55]
Prof. Herbert van Amerongen (Wageningen University)
Quantifying the excitation migration time in Photosystem II. Consequences for primary and secondary charge separation rates and the corresponding drop in free energy.[PS2.56]
Prof. Art van der Est (Brock University)
Transient EPR Studies of In Vivo Uptake of Substituted Anthraquinones by Photosystem I in Phylloquinone Biosynthetic Pathway Mutants of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803[PS2.57]
Dr Tatsuya Tomo (Hall of Global Environmental Research, Kyoto University)
Identification of special pair and ChlZ of Photosystem II in Acaryochloris marina [PS2.58]
Dr Yuki Kato (IIS, University of Tokyo)
Unexpected Difference in the P700 Redox Potential among Oxygenic Photosynthetic Organisms Revealed by Spectroelectrochemistry [PS2.59]
Mr Bart van (Wageningen University)
Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of crystals of Photosystem I [PS2.60]
Dr José M. Ortega (University of Seville-CSIC)
Site-directed mutagenesis of cytochrome b559 in the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus [PS2.61]
Prof. Alexey Semenov (A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physical-Chemical Biology Moscow State University)
Primary events in cyanobacterial photosystem I complexes studied using femtosecond selective excitation of antenna and reaction center chlorophylls [PS2.62]
Dr Poul Erik Jensen (Dept. of Plant Biology, University of Copenhagen)
The chloroplast encoded PSI-J subunit is required for formation of the plastocyanin binding domain of photosystem I [PS2.63]
Dr Marco Flores (Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany)
Structure of Radical Pairs D• +QA - in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Cooled to Cryogenic Temperatures in Neutral and Charge Separated States: A High-Field EPR/PELDO [PS2.64]
Mr Bailleul Benjamin (IBPC)
Study of intersystem electron transfer in the chlorophyll d containing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina and a reappraisal of the redox properties of P740 [PS2.65]
Dr Krzysztof Gibasiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
Primary radical pair P+Bphe– lifetime in Rhodobacter sphaeroides with blocked electron tranfer to QA. Effect of o-phenantrol [PS2.66]
Dr Stefano Santabarbara (Queen Mary, University of London)
The physiological relevance of electron transfer involving redox-active centres bound to the PsaA and PsaB subunits of Photosystem I. [PS2.67]
Dr Masahiro Kasahara (University of Tsukuba)
Redox potential of chlorophyll d [PS2.68]
Dr Masami Kobayashi (University of Tsukuba)
Oxidation potential of Chl a is the lowest of all Chls [PS2.69]
Mr Vladimir Shuvalov (Institute of Basic Biological Problems, RAS)
Electron and nuclear dynamics in many-electron atoms and molecules in bacterial [PS2.70]
PS3 - Structure and Function of Light Harvesting Complexes
Mr jie (Zhu)
Observing the ultrastructure of subunits c of chloroplast ATP synthase with atomic force microscopy and LB techniques [PS3.5]
Prof. Robert A. Niederman (Rutgers University)
Atomic Force Microscopy Reveals Multiple Patterns of Antenna Organization in Membranes of Purple Bacteria and Suggests Unanticipated Electron Transfer Mechanisms [PS3.6]
Dr Yoshitaka Saga (Kinki University)
Chlorosomal Self-Aggregation of Zinc Chlorophyll Derivatives in the Presence of Cationic Surfactant Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide and Organosilanes in Aqueous Phase [PS3.7]
Prof. Harry Frank (University of Connecticut)
Ultrafast Time-resolved Absorption Spectroscopy of Geometric Isomers of Open-Chain Carotenoids [PS3.8]
Prof. Navassard Karapetyan (A.N. Bakh Institute of Biochemistry RAS, 119071 Moscow, Russia )
Origin and function of the long-wavelength chlorophylls of PSI in the cyanobacterium A. platensis. [PS3.9]
Mrs Vidita Urboniene (Vilnius University)
Solvation Effect of Bacteriochlorophyll excitons in Light-harvesting complex LH2 [PS3.10]
Dr Toru Oba (Utsunomiya University)
Pigment-protein interactions in photosynthetic proteins [PS3.11]
Dr Toru Oba (Utsunomiya University)
Regulation of antenna functions in chlorophyll assemblies [PS3.12]
Ms Ailie McGregor (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Exploring the structure of an antennae protein - High Resolution Crystal Structures of Phycocyanin [PS3.13]
Dr Shinichi Takaichi (Department of Biology, Nippon Medical School)
Functional Identification of GDP-Fucose Synthase Gene in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 [PS3.14]
Dr Min Chen (School of Biological Scieences, University of Sydney)
Molecular bases of antenna systems adaptation in a Chl d- containing organism [PS3.15]
Prof. Hitoshi Tamiaki (Ritsumeikan University)
Chiral self-assembly of synthetic zinc protobacteriochlorophyll-d derivatives [PS3.16]
Dr Anna Paola Casazza (Istituto di Biofisica del CNR - Sezione di Milano, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Energy transfer between antenna complexes: the “low energy” spectral forms of CP29. [PS3.17]
Prof. Hideki Hashimoto (Osaka City University)
Sub-20 fs coherent spectroscopy of photosynthetic pigments [PS3.18]
Mr Yohei Ikeda (Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo)
Purification and the antenna size of photosystem I complexes from a centric diatom, Chaetoceros gracilis [PS3.19]
Prof. Seiji Akimoto (Kobe University)
Ultrafast relaxation dynamics of a keto-carotenoid, siphonaxanthin, probed by time-resolved fluorescence [PS3.20]
Mrs Julia Adolphs (Freie Universität Berlin)
Theory of Optical Spectra - How Proteins Control Excitation Energy Transfer [PS3.21]
Mrs Steffani Schaefer (Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)Why is the bacterial photosynthesis of Roseobacter denitrificans obligat aerob – a structural analysis of the RC-LH1 Core Complex [PS3.22]
Ms Kumiko Kondo (Univ. Tokyo)
Spectral and biochemical analysis of interaction between CpcG2-phycobilisome and photosystem I in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 [PS3.23]
Mrs Sandrine D'Haene (Dept. of Biophysics, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)Echinone is not involved in photoprotection in the ISA-A chlorophyll-binding protein of cyanobacteria [PS3.24]
Prof. Zoya Fetisova (M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Experimental evidence of polarization of the B798 antenna BChl a Qy transition dipoles of the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus in the antenna plane: femtosecond pump-probe studies [PS3.25]
Ms Megumi Isaji (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Compositional analysis of carotenoids in purple photosynthetic bacteria,Rhodopseudomonas sp. strain Rits, upon irradiated light intensity [PS3.26]
Mr Tim Schulte (Ruhr-University Bochum)
The structure of the in-vitro reconstituted soluble light harvesting complex RFPCP. [PS3.27]
Ms Silke Johanning (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Structural and Functional Analysis of Light Harvesting Complexes from the Dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae [PS3.28]
Dr Tohru Tsuchiya (Kyoto University)
Unique optical properties of LHC II isolated from Codium fragile - its correlation to protein environment [PS3.29]
Mr Heiko Lokstein (Universität Potsdam)
Pigment-Pigment Interactions in Light-Harvesting Complexes Investigated by Nonlinear Polarization Spectroscopy in the Frequency Domain [PS3.30]
Mr Thomas Veith (University of Frankfurt)
The Monomeric Photosystem I-Complex of the Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Binds Specific Fucoxanthin Chlorophyll Proteins (FCPs) as Light-Harvesting Complexes [PS3.31]
Ms Swapna Ganapathy (Leiden University)
Self-organization of BChl d in Chlorosomes from 2D and 3D MAS NMR Correlation Spectroscopy [PS3.32]
Dr Frank Müh (Free University of Berlin)
Structure-based Calculation of Pigment Transition Energies in Light-Harvesting Antennae [PS3.33]
Mr Bernard Lepetit (University of Leipzig)
Characterization of the oligomeric antenna of the diatom P. tricornutum [PS3.34]
Dr Christoph Theiss (TU Berlin)
Excitation energy transfer in the phycobiliprotein antenna of Acaryochloris marina studied by transient sub-ps absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy [PS3.35]
Mr Jérôme SEGUIN (CEA)
Thermal stability of LH2 and LH1 bacterial photosynthetic complexes in native membranes [PS3.36]
Dr Wesley Swingley (Hokkaido University)
Understanding the evolution of eukaryotic light-harvesting through the analysis of the prasinophyte alga Ostreococcus tauri [PS3.37]
Prof. Mamoru Mimuro (Kyoto University)
Excitation energy transfer in PS I of the cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421 that lacks the long-wavelength form of chlorophyll [PS3.38]
Prof. Mamoru Nango (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Probing the carotenoid in its binding site in a reconstituted LH1 complex from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum with electroabsorption spectroscopy [PS3.39]
Dr Tadashi Mizoguchi (Ritsumeikan University)
Diversity and localization of bacteriochlorophylls possessing different 17-propionate groups in purple bacterial antennae [PS3.40]
Miss Milena Mozzo (Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Groningen Bimolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.Istituto di Biofisica, CNR. c/o ITC via Sommarive 18. Povo )
Role of individual carotenoids bound to light-harvesting complexes of Photosystem II in triplets quenching: a Triplet-minus-singlet study [PS3.41]
Prof. Beverley R. Green (University of British Columbia)
Light-harvesting and Photoprotection in Diatoms: Identification and Role of L818-like Proteins and a Novel Member of the LHC Superfamily. [PS3.42]
Mr Aaron Collins (Washington University)
Reconstitution of the Light Harvesting Antenna from Chloroflexus aurantiacus [PS3.43]
Prof. Wolfgang Lubitz (Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany)
Electron Spin Density Distribution of the Carotenoid Triplet State in the Peridinin-Chlorophyll-Protein Antenna of Dinoflagellates Determined by Pulse ENDOR Spectroscopy [PS3.44]
Ms Swapna Ganapathy (Leiden University)
Validation of chlorosome structure models by NMR and shift analyses [PS3.45]
Mr Luning Liu (Department of Biophysics, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333CA Leiden, the Netherlands; State Key Lab of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, P. R. China)
Supramolecular architecture of hemiellipsoidal phycobilisome and thylakoid membrane in Porphyridium cruentum [PS3.46]
Dr Roberta Croce (University of Groningen)
Carotenoids in the antenna complexes of Photosystem I [PS3.47]
Mr John Timney (University of Sheffield, UK)
The influence of the second b-polypeptide upon B800 binding within the LH2 complex of Rba. sphaeroides. [PS3.48]
Mr Chavdar Slavov (Max-Planck-Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany)
Kinetic Analysis of Energy and Electron Transfer Processes in PS I Particles from Arabidopsis thaliana [PS3.49]
Mr Egbert Boekema (University of Groningen)
Electron microscopy reveals a flexible multilamellar tubular arrangement of bacteriochlorophyll sheets in Chlorobium tepidum chlorosomes [PS3.50]
Miss Irene Ng (Sheffield University)
The structure of PufX from Rhodobacter sphaeroides and the effects of N-terminal truncation and mutagenesis in the transmembrane region of the protein [PS3.51]
Prof. Hugo Scheer (Universität München)
Binding Affinities of Chlorophylls in Hetero-Chlorophyllous Complexes of Peridinin-Chlorophyll-Protein as revealed by Ensemble and Single Molecule Spectroscopy[PS3.52]
Mr Jianzhong Wen (Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis)
Mechanism of Redox Regulation of Energy Transfer of FMO Protein from Green Sulfur Bacteria [PS3.53]
Miss Francesca Passarini (Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen)Biochemical and spectroscopic properties of CP24. [PS3.54]
Prof. Seiji Akimoto (Molecular Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University)
Ultrafast relaxation dynamics of a keto-carotenoid, siphonaxanthin, probed by time-resolved fluorescence [PS3.55]
Dr Jakub Psencik (Charles University)
Changes in the lamellar organization of bacteriochlorophyll aggregates in chlorosomes upon hexanol treatment [PS3.56]
Dr Jan Alster (Charles University)
Effect of quinones on formation and properties of bacteriochlorophyll c aggregates [PS3.57]
Dr Andrew Gall (CEA)
Spectroscopic and structural studies of the light-harvesting complexes from photosynthetic purple sulfur bacteria [PS3.58]
Dr Pu Qian (University of Sheffield)
Single particle analysis of the dimeric RC-LH1-PufX complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides [PS3.59]
Dr Mihaela Folea (University of Groningen)
Electron microscopy of the photosynthestic membrane of Thermosynechoccus elongatus reveals new protein structures [PS3.60]
Dr Sami Kereiche (University of Groningen)
Structural characterization of PSII membranes from an Arabidopsis knock-out mutant lacking Lhcb3 antenna [PS3.61]
Dr Roberto Bassi (University of Verona)
Zeaxanthin radical cation formation in minor light harvesting complexes of higher plant antenna [PS3.62]
Prof. AWD Larkum (University of Sydney)
Modelling the IsiA-PSI supermolecular complex of cyanobacteria [PS3.63]
PS4 - The Water Oxidising Enzyme
Dr Johannes Sjöholm (Uppsala University)
pH dependence of the S0 Split EPR signal in photosystem II, induced by 5K illumination [PS4.5]
Dr Ji-Hu Su (Max-Planck-Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie, Stiftstrasse 34–36, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany)
Water binding to the Mn4OxCa cluster in Photosystem II studied by advanced pulse EPR spectroscopy [PS4.6]
Dr Jon Neild (Imperial College London)
A detailed structural model for the eukaryotic LHCII-PSII supercomplex [PS4.7]
Dr Junko Yano (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Structure of the Photosynthetic Mn4Ca Cluster Using X-ray Spectroscopy [PS4.8]
Dr Vittal Yachandra (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Electronic Structure and Oxidation State Changes in the Mn4Ca Cluster of Photosystem II [PS4.9]
Dr Naoki Mizusawa (University of Tokyo)
Role of phosphatidylglycerol in oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II [PS4.10]
Mr Mohamed MIQYASS (Biophysics Department, Huygens Laboratory, Leiden, Netherlands)
Calcium requirement for S-state transitions [PS4.11]
Prof. Masami Kusunoki (Meiji University)
Mono-manganese mechanism of dioxygen evolution catalyzed by unique Mn4Ca cluster in PSII [PS4.12]
Dr Tatiana Shutova (Umeå University)
A Cluster of Carboxylic Groups in PsbO Protein is Involved in Proton Transfer from the Water Oxidizing Complex of Photosystem II [PS4.13]
Mrs Julia Sander (Plant Biochemistry, Ruhr University Bochum)
Role of the psbA gene family of PSII from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus [PS4.14]
Mr K Beckmann (Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany)
Effects of the Calcium/Strontium and Chloride/Bromide Substitution on Substrate Water Exchange Rates in Photosystem II [PS4.15]
Prof. K V Lakshmi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Snapshots of Biological Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: Tyrosine Intermediates in Photosystem II [PS4.16]
Prof. Robert Burnap (Oklahoma State University)
Photoassembly of the Mn4-Ca cluster in mutants perturbed in the high affinity Mn-binding site of the H2O-oxidation complex of photosystem II [PS4.17]
Dr Yulia Pushkar (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Structural changes in the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II upon S2 to S3 transition [PS4.18]
Prof. Gary Brudvig (Yale University)
Insights into the Function of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II from Manganese Model Chemistry [PS4.19]
Dr Warwick Hillier (Australian National University)
Substrate Water binding in the OEC: The Message is Clear from Flashes, Mutants and Strontium Effects. [PS4.20]
Dr Matthias Broser (Technische Universität Berlin)
Photosystem II – details of cofactor-protein interactions in the light of the 3.0 Å resolution crystal structure [PS4.21]
Dr Albert Guskov (Free University Berlin)
X-ray crystallographic analysis of PSII from T. elongatus at 3.0 Å resolution [PS4.22]
Dr Karim Maghlaoui (Imperial College London)
X-ray diffraction analysis to investigate chloride binding in the OEC [PS4.23]
Mr Iain McConnell (The Australian National University)
Insights Into The Photosynthetic Water Oxidation Mechanism: Determination of the Dissociation Constants for the Substrate Water Binding Sites from 18O Isotope Exchange Measuremen [PS4.24]
Dr Mario Fragata (Univ. Québec, Trois-Rivières)
Quantum requirement for oxygen evolution in photosystem II. New experimental data and theoretical solutions [PS4.25]
Prof. James Barber (Imperial College)
A detailed structural model for the eukaryotic LHCII-PSII supercomplex [PS4.26]
Dr Guangye Han (Molecular Biomimetics, Department of Photochemistry and Molecular Science, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 523, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden)
S-state dependence of turnover misses in the OEC probed by EPR spectroscopy of the individual S-states [PS4.27]
Prof. Holger Dau (Freie Univ. Berlin)
Eight steps towards dioxygen formation - Time-resolved X-ray experiments and a basic reaction cycle of photosynthetic water oxidation [PS4.28]
Mr Yashar Feyziyev (Institute of Botany, 40 Patamdar Shosse, Baku AZ-1073, Azerbaijan)
Photosystem II function and bicarbonate [PS4.29]
Mr Jiri Jablonsky (Palacký University, Faculty of Science, Department of Experimental Physics, Laboratory of Biophysics)
A view of the damped flash-induced period-four oscillations of oxygen evolution: The interredox S-states [PS4.30]
Mr Vyacheslav Klimov (Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Possible role of bicarbonate in the photosynthetic water oxidation [PS4.31]
Dr Felix M Ho (Molecular Biomimetics, Department of Photochemistry and Molecular Science, The Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 523, SE-752 10 Uppsala, Sweden)
Access channels and methanol binding site to the CaMn4 cluster in Photosystem II based on solvent accessibility simulations, with implications for substrate water access [PS4.32]
Mr Ryo Nagao (Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Kagurazaka 1-3, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8601 Japan)
Isolation of the diatom PSII retaining high oxygen-evolving activity from a marine diatom, Chaetoceros gracilis [PS4.33]
Mr Masanori Sano (Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Kagurazaka 1-3, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8601 Japan)
Identification of functional domain of PsbU in red algal PSII by site-directed mutagenesis [PS4.34]
Dr Akinori Okumura (Department of Integrated Science of Physics and Biology, College of Humanities and Science, Nihon University, 3-25-40 Sakurajosui,Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 156-8550, Japan)
Cloning and sequence analyses of the five extrinsic proteins in diatom PSII [PS4.35]
Dr Miwa Sugiura (Osaka Prefecture University)
Effects of P680 ligand substitution in the oxygen-evolving Photosystem II of Thermosynechococcus elongatus [PS4.36]
Dr Mary Hamilton (Imperial College London)
Cytochrome b-559 is important for modulating electron transfer on the acceptor side of Photosystem II and for photoprotection during assembly of the Mn4Ca complex [PS4.37]
Mr Hiroyuki Suzuki (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba)
FTIR Study on the Proton Release Pattern during Water Oxidation in Photosystem II Core Complexes from Thermosynechococcus elongatus [PS4.38]
Prof. J.-R. Shen (Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University)
Roles of lipids in photosystem II: Possible differences between cyanobacteria and higher plants [PS4.39]
Mr Hideyuki Adachi (Graduate School of Natural Science ,Okayama University)
Purification and crystallization of photosystem II complex from a red alga Cyanidium caldarium. [PS4.40]
Dr Chunxi Zhang (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Relationship between Main Reaction and Side-Pathway Reaction at Cryogenic Temperature in Intact Photosystem II [PS4.41]
Mr Keisuke Kawakami (Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology/Fuculty of Science; Okayama University)
Crystal Structure Analysis of a Mutant Photosystem II Complex Lacking PsbI from Thermosynechococcus vulcanus. [PS4.42]
Prof. Charles Yocum (University of Michigan)
Functional Characterization of PsbO, the PSII Manganese Stabilizing Protein [PS4.43]
Mr Joachim Buchta (Freie Universität Berlin)
Time-resolved delayed chlorophyll fluorescence to study the donor-side of phtotsystem II [PS4.44]
Mr Björn Süss (Freie Universität Berlin)
The photosynthetic Mn complex in its reaction cycle: An attempt to obtain pure FTIR difference spectra for the four transitions between semi-stable S-states [PS4.45]
Mr Alexander Grundmeier (Freie Universität Berlin)
On the structure of the manganese complex of photosystem II: extended-range EXAFS data and specific atomic-resolution models for four S-states [PS4.46]
Mr Ryouta Takahashi (Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Structural coupling of water molecules with YD in photosystem II as revealed by FTIR spectroscopy [PS4.47]
Dr Hsiu-An Chu (Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwain)
Structural and mechanistic studies of the oxygen-evolving complex and cytochrome b559 in photosystem II [PS4.48]
Mr Alain Boussac (CEA-CNRS)
Spectroscopic studies of the Mn4Ca cluster in mutants and biosynthetically modified Photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus [PS4.49]
Ms Adele Williamson (ANU)
Expression of the Manganese Stabilising Protein from a Primitive Cyanobacterium [PS4.50]
Prof. Katsuyoshi Nakazato (Department of Integrated Science of Physics and Biology, College of Humanities & Science, Nihon University, 3-25-40 Sakurajosui, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 156-8550,Japan)
Crystallization of Photosystem II under controlled degrees of supersaturation [PS4.51]
Mrs Anna Rychkova (Moscow State University)
What can give us the simple method of the ligand field theory in studing the complicated oxygen evolving complex [PS4.52]
Prof. Gernot Renger (Max Volmer Laboratory, Technical University Berlin)
Oxidative photosynthetic water splitting: energetics, kinetics and mechanism [PS4.53]
Dr Anders Thapper (Uppsala University)
IR-induced Changes in Flash-induced Variable Chl a Fluorescence of Photosystem II [PS4.54]
Dr Nikolaos Ioannidis (Institute of Materials Science, NCSR "Demokritos", Aghia Paraskevi, Athens 15310, GREECE)
The S2YZ intermediate of the OEC in the functional Photosystem II at temperatures close to the onset of the S2 to S3 transition. An EPR investig [PS4.55]
Ms Georgia Zahariou (Institute of Materials Science, NCSR "Demokritos", Aghia Paraskevi, Athens 15310, GREECE)
Temperature dependence of the S1YZ
•, S0YZ
•(+MeOH) and S2YZ •(+MeOH) intermediate states of Photosystem [PS4.56]
Mrs Kajsa Havelius (Uppsala University)
The mechanism(s) behind the formation of the “Split S3 EPR signal” in Photosystem II induced by visible or near infrared light. [PS4.57]
Dr Vasili Petrouleas (NCSR Demokritos)
Recent EPR studies of the OEC of Photosystem II. (A) Trapping tyrosyl Z• in action. (B) The critical S3 integer-spin state of the Mn cluster [PS4.58]
Dr Fikret Mamedov (Uppsala University)
ESEEM and ESE-ENDOR investigation of the light inducible Split S1 EPR signal from Photosystem II [PS4.59]
Dr Hiroyuki Mino (Nagoya university)
The S-state dependence of the location and affinity of the protons bound to the manganese cluster in photosystem II. [PS4.60]
PS5 - Electron Transport; operation, organisation and regulation
Miss Mai Watanabe (University of Hyogo)
Reconstitution of cyclic electron transport in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by a cell-free system [PS5.5]
Miss Yuki Okegawa (Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyushu University)
Characterization of regulatory factors of PGR5-dependent PSI cyclic electron transport [PS5.6]
Mr Christopher Cohu (Colorado State University)
Regulation of superoxide dismutase expression by copper availability [PS5.7]
Dr Kotaro Takayama (Ehime University)
Heterogeneity of xanthophyll-independent non-photochemical quenching during photosynthetic induction in shade-grown leaves of avocado (Persea americana L.) [PS5.8]
Dr Mieko Higuchi (Plant Functional Genomics Research Team, RIKEN PSC)
Identification of photosynthesis-related genes in rice using FOX hunting system [PS5.9]
Dr Naomi Matsuda (Dept. Biol. Sci., Kanagawa Univ.)
Thioredoxin potential target proteins in Green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum [PS5.10]
Dr Mubariz Ismayilov (Institute of Botany)
Redox regulation of chloroplast gene expression in wheat plants [PS5.11]
Dr Zsuzsanna Deák (Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary )
Oscillating yield of flash-induced chlorophyll fluorescence decay in intact cells of Thermosynechococcus elongatus [PS5.12]
Miss Minna Lintala (University of Turku)
Modulation of photosynthetic capacity and thylakoid protein composition in Arabidopsis thaliana FNR knock-out mutants [PS5.13]
Dr Alexander G. Ivanov (Department of Biology and The Biotron, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, N., London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7)
Enhanced sensitivity to photoinhibition of PSI in the Costata-type mutant of pea is due to PSI-acceptor side limitation [PS5.14]
Dr Hideyuki Shimizu (Kyushu University)
CRR1 is specifically involved in accumulation of the chloroplast NDH complex despite its homology to DHPR in Arabidopsis [PS5.15]
Miss Silvia de Bianchi (University of Verona - Italy)
Energy dissipation and photoprotection in deletion mutants of the minor Lhcb proteins CP24 and CP26. [PS5.16]
Miss Kaori Kohzuma (NAIST)
Preferential decay of the CF1 epsilon subunit induces thylakoid uncoupling in wild watermelon under drought stress [PS5.17]
Mr Kunio Ido (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
Effects of the PsbP knockdown on the photosynthetic electron transfer in Nicotiana tabacum. [PS5.18]
Miss Maria Mubarakshina (Institute of Basic Biological Problems RAS)
The plastoquinone pool involving in the oxygen reduction in the photosynthetic electron transport chain [PS5.19]
Miss Maria Mubarakshina (Institute of Basic Biological Problems Russian Academy of Sciences)
The oxidation of the plastoquinone pool in the thylakoids under areobic conditions [PS5.20]
Dr Sergei Savikhin (Purdue University)
Ultrafast Optical Studies of the Cytochrome b6f Complex in Solution and Crystalline States [PS5.21]
Miss Cristina Albarran (IBVF, Universidad de Sevilla & CSIC, Sevilla, Spain)
Plastocyanin rather than cytochrome f is responsible for their specific electrostatic interactions in the cyanobacterium [PS5.22]
Dr Eero Talts (Tartu University, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology)
Dark inactivation of ferredoxin-NADP reductase and cyclic electron flow under far-red light in sunflower leaves [PS5.23]
Dr Vello Oja (Tartu University, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology)
Dual-wavelength analysis of photosystem I electron transport [PS5.24]
Dr Boris Ivanov (Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Inclusion of an oxygen pool into photosynthetic electron-transport chain [PS5.25]
Prof. Toru Hisabori (CRL, Tokyo Tech.)
Relation between ADP inhibition and e inhibition of rotation of the chloloplast-type F1-ATPase [PS5.26]
Dr Yagut Allahverdiyeva (Department of Biology, Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland)
Insights into the function of PsbR protein in Arabidopsis thaliana [PS5.27]
Dr Szilvia Z Toth (Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 521, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary)
Do alternative electron donors protect heat-inactivated photosystem II from photoinhibition? [PS5.28]
Prof. Kenji Omasa (The University of Tokyo)
Development of 3D confocal laser scanning microscope for applying saturation pulse method of chlorophyll a fluorescence [PS5.29]
Mr Akira Eguchi (The University of Tokyo)
Three-dimensional chlorophyll fluorescence imaging for detecting effects of a herbicide in leaves. [PS5.30]
Mr Atsumi Konishi (The University of Tokyo)
Spatiotemporal changes in PRI and NPQ under different light intensity gradients on leaf surfaces [PS5.31]
Miss Dominika Bednarczyk (Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie)
Genetic manipulation of PSI biogenesis in higher plants [PS5.32]
Mr Chihiro Azai (Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University)
Bifurcated electron donations from quinol oxidoreductase and soluble CycA to cytochrome cz of the photosynthetic reaction center complex in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum [PS5.33]
Dr Fraser MacMillan (UEA)
Resolving Protein-Cofactor Interactions in the Cytochrome bc1 Complex [PS5.34]
Prof. Robert Carpentier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
The oxidation state of the manganese cluster modulates the kinetics of chlorophyll fluorescence induction [PS5.35]
Dr Elizabeth Gross (The Ohio State University)
Complex Formation Between Chalmydomonas Cytochrome f and Plastocyanin Studied Using Brownian Dynamics Computer Simulations [PS5.36]
Mr Robert Nimmo (University of Cambridge)
Structure and Function of Cytochrome c6A [PS5.37]
Ms Meike Gendrullis (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
PetP, a new regulatory subunit of cyanobacterial cytochrome b6f complexes? [PS5.38]
Dr Merope Tsimilli-Michael (University of Geneva)
Experimental resolution and theoretical complexity determine the amount of information extractable from the chlorophyll fluorescence transient OJIP [PS5.39]
Mr Vasilij Goltsev (University of Sofia)
How to derive electromagnetic frequency spectra of substances placed in a coil that senses the electromagnetic field of background noise: Application for leaves and molecules useful in photosynthesis [PS5.40]
Dr Yordanov Ivan (University of Geneva)
Modulated sink-source interactions preserve the PSII electron transport from senescence-induced inactivation in model system with expanded life span induced by decapitation of bean plants [PS5.41]
Mr Takuro Ogawa (Dept. Biol. Sci., Grad. Sch. Sci., Univ. Tokyo)
Thiosulfate-oxidizing multi-component system in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum [PS5.42]
Dr Hiroyuki Koike (University of Hyogo)
Investigation of the function of a nuoE homologue, sll1220 in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 by means of mutagenesis [PS5.43]
Dr Simon Hald (University of Manchester)
NADPH feeds back to regulate electron transport – a novel mechanism for the regulation of photosynthesis under environmental stress. [PS5.44]
Dr Torsten Becker (University Bayreuth)
Kinetic Simulations of the Roller Coaster Landscape of the C-Subunit of the Bacterial Reaction Center [PS5.45]
Dr Fabrice Franck (University of Liège)
The Mehler reaction in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii : efficiency during photosynthetic induction and steady-state photosynthesis in wild-type and in a mitochondrial mutant shifted to energy distribution state 2. [PS5.46]
Dr Hiroumi Murakami (Nagoya University)
-G and temperature dependencies of the electron transfer rates between P700+ and A1- or FeS- in photosystem I containing different quinones [PS5.47]
Miss Gloria Olaso-González (Instituto de Ciencia Molecular )
Ultrafast Electron Transfer in Photosynthesis: Reduced Pheophytin and Quinone Interaction Mediated by Conical Intersections [PS5.48]
Dr Hirosuke Kanamoto (Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth)
Photoinactivation of Ascorbate Peroxidase in Isolated Tobacco Chloroplasts: Galdieria partita APX Maintains the Electron Flux through the Water-Water Cycle in Transplastomic Tobacco Plants [PS5.49]
Prof. Radovan Popovic (University of Quebec in Montreal, Department of Chemistry, TOXEN)
Alteration of O-J-I-P chlorophyll induction kinetics by chromium effect on water splitting system [PS5.50]
Mr David Bina (BC ASCR)
Relationship between the in vivo bacteriochlorophyll fluorescence and the state of the photosynthetic apparatus in purple bacteria. [PS5.51]
Mr Wolfgang Nitschke (BIP/CNRS)
An axial ligand for heme ci Phenylalanine to tyrosine substitution in SUIV of the cytochrome b6f complex from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [PS5.52]
Mr Akira Okamuro (Okayama University)
Characterization of ferredoxin-NADP-oxidoreductase stably associated on the thylakoids from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [PS5.53]
Mr Fabrice Rappaport (Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, CNRS-UPMC, Paris)
Insights into the function of haem ci in the Qi site of the b6f complex, from the binding of NQNO [PS5.54]
PS8 - CO2 Diffusion, Gas Exchange and the Role of Stomata
Dr Miquel Ribas-Carbo (Universitat Illes Balears)
Mesophyll conductance to CO2 in Arabidopsis thaliana [PS8.5]
Dr Antonio Diaz-Espejo (IRNASE )
Seasonal evolution of biochemical and diffusional limitations to photosynthesis in olive [PS8.6]
Dr Joaquim Miguel Costa (CEA-Cadarache /CNRS / Aix-Marseille II University)
Arabidopsis mutants showing open stomata in the dark [PS8.7]
Ms Cátia Nunes (Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
A highly embryogenic line of the legume model Medicago truncatula, M9-10a: performance under water deficit. [PS8.8]
Dr Shin-Ichi Miyazawa (RITE)
Relationship between mesophyll CO2 gas diffusion conductance and leaf plasma-membrane-type aquaporin contents in tobacco plants grown under drought conditions [PS8.9]
Dr Tracy Lawson (University of Essex)
Do homobaric and heterobaric leaves differ in internal lateral CO2 diffusion? [PS8.10]
Dr Siegfried Jahnke (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, ICG-3: Phytosphäre, 52425 Jülich, Germany)
Lateral gas diffusion in the mesophyll can contribute to CO2 fixation in homobaric leaves [PS8.11]
PS9 - CO2-Concentrating Mechanisms
Ms Nadja Engel (University of Rostock)
Relocation of photorespiratory CO2 release from the mesophyll to the bundle sheath of a C3 plant [PS9.5]
Dr Martin Spalding (Iowa State University)
Suppressors of pmp1/ad1 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [PS9.6]
Dr Nomita Chowhuri (SEN)
ATPase - Photosynthesis and Nitrogen [PS9.7]
Dr Deqiang Duanmu (Iowa State University)
Suppressors of pmp1/ad1 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [PS9.8]
Dr Yingjum Wang (Iowa State University)
LCIB functions in a multi-subunit complex essential for inorganic carbon transport in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [PS9.9]
Mr Shawn Daley (Oklahoma State University)
Paralogous evolution of a family of transcriptional regulators involved in inorganic carbon assimilation. [PS9.10]
Mr HoSeung Kim (Pusan National University)
Properties of photosynthetic CO2 uptake in protoplasts isolated from thallus of green alga (Ulva pertusa) [PS9.11]
Dr James Moroney (Louisiana State University)
Identification of two novel genes required for growth under low CO2 conditions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [PS9.12]
Prof. Richard Leegood (University of Sheffield)
Single-cell C4 photosynthesis in marine diatoms? [PS9.13]
Dr Ben Long (Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University)
A structural role for CcmM in ß-carboxysome shell formation. [PS9.14]
Dr Pengpeng Zhang (Department of Biology, University of Turku)
Expression of inducible inorganic carbon acquisition complexes is under the control of the FtsH protease in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 [PS9.15]
PS10 - CAM and C4
Mr Dafu Wang (University of Illinois)
An increase in expression of Pyruvate Pi Dikinase and its high activation energy correspond to cold-tolerant C4 photosynthesis of Miscanthus x giganteus [PS10.5]
Ms Carlos S. Andreo (CEFOBI-UNR)
Study of the structure-function relationship in maize photosynthetic NADP-MALIC enzyme [PS10.6]
Mr Patrick Vogan (University of Toronto)
Functional signficance of C3-C4 intermediate traits in Heliotropium L. (Boraginaceae): gas exchange perspectives [PS10.7]
Dr Rowan Sage (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto)
The Identification of C3-C4 intermediates in the genus Heliotropium section Orthostachys (Boreginaceae) [PS10.8]
Dr Chisato Masumoto (Natl. Inst. Agrobiol. Sci.)
A novel phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase targeted to the chloroplast of rice [PS10.9]
Prof. Brad Ripley (Rhodes University)
Drought constraints on C4 photosynthesis: stomatal and metabolic limitations in C3 and C4 grasses. [PS10.10]
Dr Mitsue Miyao-Tokutomi (Natl. Inst. Agrobiol. Sci.)
Does the C4-like pathway operate in rice leaves?: Comparison of transgenic rice plants overproducing different sets of C4 enzymes [PS10.11]
Dr Yojiro Taniguchi (Natl. Inst. Agrobiol. Sci.)
Production of transgenic rice plants overproducing multiple C4 enzymes [PS10.12]
Mr Bruno Pollet (Ghent University)
Dynamic response of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in Phalaenopsis to a warm day/cool night temperature regime [PS10.13]
Dr Youshi Tazoe (University of Tokyo)
Light dependences of the CO2 leakiness, quantum yield of CO2 fixation and activation state of key enzymes in a C4 plant, Amaranthus cruentus, grown in hi [PS10.14]
Miss Diana Marshall (University of Cambridge)
Cleome- A new model for C4 photosynthesis [PS10.15]
Dr Naomi Brown (University of Cambridge)
Molecular evolution of four-carbon decarboxylase genes recruited into C4 photosynthesis [PS10.16]
Dr Colin Osborne (University of Sheffield)
Ecological differentiation in the C3 and C4 subspecies of Alloteropsis semialata [PS10.17]
Mr Luciano Freschi (Department of Botany, University of São Paulo, 05508-900 São Paulo, SP, Brazil)
Diurnal synchronization between PEP carboxylase and PEP carboxykinase activities in the epiphytic CAM bromeliad Tillandsia pohliana [PS10.18]
Mr Luciano Freschi (Department of Botany, University of São Paulo, 05508-900 São Paulo, SP, Brazil)
Hormonal regulation of Crassulacean acid metabolism expression in pineapple plants [PS10.19]
Mr Douglas Ibrahim (University of Sheffield)
Consequences of photosynthetic pathway evolution for plant-climate interactions: a test using C3 and C4 subspecies of Alloteropsis semialata [PS10.20]
Prof. Andrew Smith (University of Oxford)
CAM photosynthesis in tropical epiphytes: an analysis of ecological and evolutionary relationships in bromeliads [PS10.21]
Ms Andrea Braeutigam (Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf; Michigan State University)
Comparative proteomics of C3 and C4 mesophyll chloroplast envelopes and the characterization of a novel transport protein, Mep1 [PS10.22]
Prof. Lonnie Guralnick (Western Oregon University )
The extent of C4 and CAM photosynthesis in Three Grahmia species of the Portulacaceae [PS10.23]
Dr Luke Hendrickson (Australian National University)
The effects of rubisco activase on C4 photosynthesis and metabolism at high temperature [PS10.24]
Ms Ana Sofia Soares (Plant Biology Department and Biological Engeneering Centre, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Dorso-ventral regulation of photosynthesis on the adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces of the monocotyledonous C4 species Paspalum dilatatum [PS10.25]
PS11 - The C3 Cycle: limitation and regulation
Mr Yohtaro Saito (Nara Institute of Science and Technology )
Evolutionary Potential of RuBisCO-like Protein in Bacillus subtilis: Interaction with Transition-State Analogue of RuBisCO. [PS11.5]
Dr Michael Salvucci (USDA-ARS)
Association of Activase with cpn60 during Heat Stress: Possible Mechanism for Photosynthetic Acclimation [PS11.6]
Miss Nana Ninomiya (NAIST)
Improvement of cyanobacterial RuBisCO by introducing the latch structure involved in high affinity for CO2 in red algal RuBisCO. [PS11.7]
Dr Yuji Suzuki (Tohoku University)
Increased Rubisco content in transgenic rice transformed with “sense” rbcS gene [PS11.8]
Dr Hillar Eichelmann (Tartu University, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology)
Rubisco activation state and its relationship to photosystem I in leaves [PS11.9]
Dr Yehouda Marcus (Tel Aviv University)
Does Rubisco indeed limit the rate of photosynthesis? [PS11.10]
Dr Yehouda Marcus (Tel Aviv University)
The differential role of Pi binding sites in modulation of Rubisco activity [PS11.11]
Dr David Kubien (University of New Brunswick)
The Temperature Response of Photosynthesis in Tobacco with Reduced Amounts of Rubisco [PS11.12]
Dr Heather Kane (The Australian National University)
A novel strategy to rapidly purify cyanobacteria Rubiscos from E. coli [PS11.13]
Mr Oliver Mueller-Cajar (The Australian National University)
Using artificial evolution to uncover novel structure-function interactions remote from the Rubisco active site. [PS11.14]
Dr Robert Sharwood (Australian National University)
Improving the throughput for generating and kinetically screening mutated tobacco Rubiscos [PS11.15]
Prof. Katsura Izui (Kunming University of Science and Technology)
Installation of a Formaldehyde-Fixation Pathway of Methylotroph as a Bypass of Carboxylation Step of the Calvin Cycle in Higher Plants [PS11.16]
Prof. Martin Parry (Rothamsted Research)
CA1P-Phosphatase: A Ubiquitous Role in Rubisco Regulation? [PS11.17]
Dr Antonio Jesús Serrato Recio (Estación Experimental del Zaidín)
A new isoform of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate in chloroplasts [PS11.18]
Dr Francesca Sparla (University of Bologna)
Assembly of supramolecular complexea if calvin cycle enzymes as mediated by the intrinsically unstructured protein CP12 [PS11.19]
Dr Francesca Sparla (University of Bologna)
Structural basis of thioredoxin regulation in photosynthetic A2B2-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase [PS11.20]
Miss Sophie Janacek (University of Cambridge)
Photosynthesis in veinal cells of C3 plants controls leaf morphology [PS11.21]
PS17 - Biogenesis of Photosynthetic Apparatus
Mr Shinji Masuda (Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Cyanobacterial NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR) compensates for a knockdown mutation of PORA in Arabidopsis thaliana [PS17.5]
Dr Lina Lezhneva (Physiologie Membranaire et Moleculaire du Chloroplaste UMR7141 )
A novel pathway of cytochrome c biogenesis is involved in the assembly of the cytochrome b6f complex in Arabidopsis chloroplasts [PS17.6]
Miss Anne Cortleven (Centre for Environmental Sciences)
Analysis of the effect of elevated cytokinin content on the photosynthetic apparatus using Blue Native PAGE [PS17.7]
Dr Xenie Johnson (IBPC CNRS UMR7141)
Insertional Mutagenesis, Genomic Complementation and Biophysical Phenotyping in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [PS17.8]
Mr Dominic Rosso (University of Western Ontario)
Excitation pressure modulates the extent of variegation through the regulation of chloroplast biogenesis in the immutans mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana [PS17.9]
Ms Seiko Ishihara (Graduate school of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
Functional analysis of two PsbP-like (PPL) proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana [PS17.10]
Mr Martin Schliep (School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney)
The function of MgDVP in a chlorophyll d-containing organism [PS17.11]
Dr Yuichi Fujita (Nagoya University)
Chlorophyll a biosynthesis under anaerobic environments in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 [PS17.12]
Mr Jiro Nomata (Nagoya University)
Biochemical analysis of two catalytic components of nitrogenase-like enzymes protochlorophyllide reductase and chlorophyllide a reductase from Rhodobacter capsulatus [PS17.13]
Dr Jaimey Tucker (University of Sheffield)
Assembly of the light harvesting apparatus in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. [PS17.14]
Dr Alexey Shapiguzov (Division of Cell Biology, Linkoping University, Sweden)
Immunophilins and prolyl isomerase activity in the thylakoid lumen of Arabidopsis [PS17.15]
Mr Taro Ogawa (NAIST)
Isolation and characterization of genes necessary for achievement of RuBisCO accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Mr Md. Rafiqul Islam (University of Hyogo)
Slr1923 of Synechocystis 6803 is related to chlorophyll a metabolism [PS17.17]
Mr Yusuke Yagi (Kyoto prefecture univ.)
Identification of a chloroplast-localized SAP domain containing protein in Arabidopsis thaliana. [PS17.18]
Mr I Nengah SUWASTIKA (Kyoto Univ.)
Localization of Obg-Hflx and TrmE-Era super family small GTPases in various organelles in plant cells. [PS17.19]
Miss Alix Boulouis (CNRS-UPMC Paris 6)
A dominant nuclear mutation in Chlamydomonas identifies a factor controlling chloroplast mRNA stability by acting on the coding region of the petA transcript [PS17.20]
Dr Thomas Kieselbach (Dep. of Chemistry, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden)
Role of thioredoxin interactions of the luminal chloroplast proteome of Arabidopsis thaliana [PS17.21]
Mr Denis Saint-Marcoux (IBPC-CNRS)
A new c-type cytochrome maturation system is required for oxygenic photosynthesis [PS17.22]
Miss Anne Stenbæk (University of Copenhagen)
The aerobic cyclase complex in chlorophyll biosynthesis [PS17.23]
Dr Julia Vainonen (Turku University)
Phosphoprotein CaS is associated with the thylakoid membrane of plant chloroplasts [PS17.24]
Dr Olivier Vallon (Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique)
The Chlamydomonas ClpP complex : slicing the cutter [PS17.25]
Dr Stephan Eberhard (Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique)
The 5' UTR targets atpA transcripts towards translation or non-polysomic ribonucleoproteic complexes in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [PS17.26]
Miss Claudia Flügel (Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie)
Ontogenetic changes in the biogenesis of the Cytochrome-b6f complex [PS17.27]
Dr Takashi Shiina (Kyoto Prefectural University)
Coordinated functions of plastid sigma factors in chloroplast development and gene expression [PS17.28]
Mr Jose Gines García-Cerdán (Umeå University)
Functional analyses of the PsbW and PsbY subunits of Photosystem II in higher plants [PS17.29]
Prof. Wataru Sakamoto (Okayama University)
The balance between chloroplast protein synthesis and degradation as an important factor of chloroplast biogenesis and maintenance [PS17.30]
Mr Wenbin Zhou (Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 200032 Shanghai, People's Republic of China)
A pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) protein regulates chloroplast biogenesis at the early growth stage [PS17.31]
PS18 - Origin and Evolution of Photosynthetic Systems
Prof. Nathan Nelson (Tel Aviv University)
The structure of plant photosystem I at 3.4 Å resolution – 3.5 billion years of perfection [PS18.5]
Prof. Christopher Howe (University of Cambridge)
The chloroplast genome – terminal decline or faded grandeur? [PS18.6]
Dr Sohjiro Fukuyo (University of Tsukuba)
Conversion of Chl a into Chl d by heat-treated papain [PS18.7]
Mr Shunsuke Ohashi (University of Tsukuba)
Succession of co-factors in photosystem I [PS18.8]
Dr Tomas Morosinotto (University of Padova)
In between algae and plants: analysis of the LHC multigene family of the moss Physcomitrella patens allows identification of light harvesting proteins associated to adaptation to sub-aerial environments [PS18.9]
Dr Dion Durnford (University of New Brunswick)
Tracing the Evolution of the Light-Harvesting Antennae in Chlorophyll a/b-Containing Organisms [PS18.10]
Mr Shuichi Shimmura (Kyoto Prefectural University)
Evolution of the light responsive psbD promoter in chloroplast [PS18.11]
Mr Zarifa Suleymanova (Botany)
Comparative analysis of partially sequenced chloroplast DNA of Cicer arietinum [PS18.12]
Dr Sabeeha Merchant (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095)
Establishing potential chloroplast function through phylogenomics [PS18.13]
Dr Stephen Fedha (Maseno University, Kenya)
The origin and distribution of C3 and C4 photosynthetic species of the Centrospermeae along an altitudinal gradient in western Kenya. [PS18.14]
Prof. John F. Allen (Queen Mary, University of London)
Redox switches and evolutionary transitions [PS18.15]
Prof. AWD Larkum (University of Sydney)
The Origin of Plastids: A Shopping Bag Model [PS18.16]
Prof. Anthony Larkum (University of Sydney)
Phylogeny of Prochlorococcus marinus: how is this species related to the rest of the Cyanobacteria? [PS18.17]
Prof. Kenneth Sauer (University of California)
The Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis – A Scenario [PS18.18]
PS21 - Artificial Photosynthesis Symposium
Dr Mikhail Antonkine (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Bioanorganische Chemie; Freie Universitaet Berlin )
De Novo peptides modelling the binding sites of [4Fe-4S] clusters in Photosystem I [PS21.5]
Dr Michael Hambourger (Arizona State University)
The design of a hybrid photoelectrochemical cell used to generate reducing and oxidizing potential [PS21.6]
Prof. Yutaka Amao (Oita University)
Visible light induced water oxidation with photosynthesis organ from green plant [PS21.7]
Mr Hidehiro Sakurai (Waseda Univ)
Improvement of nitrogenase-based photobiological hydrogen production by cyanobacteria by gene engineering -hydrogenases and homocitrate synthase- [PS21.8]
Mr Shigenobui YANO (Nara Women's University)
Syntheses and photochemical properties of trimanganese complexes containing naphtyl residues [PS21.9]
Prof. Isamu Kinoshita (Osaka-City University)
Proton/electron concerted processes useful for water splitting reaction using Cu(II/III) and Ni(II/III) systems. [PS21.10]
Dr Akimasa Nakamura (R&D Dep., Central Japan Railway)
Sensitization of Light-Induced Charge Separation in Photosystem I by Synthetic Fluorescent Dyes [PS21.11]
PS22 - Perception of the Environment and Signalling
Dr Takahisa Ogawa (Department of Advanced Bioscience, Faculty of Agriculture, Kinki University)
Functional analysis of an 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine 5'-triphosphate pyrophosphohydrolase, AtNUDX1, involved in repair of oxidative DNA damage in Arabidopsis thaliana [PS22.5]
Mr Qing Wei (Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
The role of Heterotrimeric G-protein on chloroplast development [PS22.6]
Mrs Otilia Cheregi (Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary )
Investigation of the role of histidine kinase Hik33 in UV-B induced stress responses in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 [PS22.7]
Dr Kazuyuki Yoshida (Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University)
Evaluation of colors in green mutants isolated from purple bacteria as a host for colorimetric whole-cell biosensors [PS22.8]
Dr Michel Havaux (CEA/Cadarache, IBEB/SBVME, Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France)
Vitamin E: antioxidant properties in chloroplasts and functional interactions with carotenoids [PS22.9]
Mr Ding-Ji SHI (Tianjin University of Science & Technology)
Inhibitions of allelopathy from Scenedesmus obliquus on photosynthesis and growth of Microcystis aeruginosa [PS22.10]
Ms Anna Lepistö (Department of Biology, University of Turku)
Chloroplastic NADPH thioredoxin reductase mediates photoperiod-dependent development of leaves in Arabidopsis [PS22.11]
Mrs Laura Patterson-Fortin (University of Alberta)
LexA-regulated expression of the cyanobacterial RNA helicase, crhR [PS22.12]
Mr Govert Trouwborst (Wageningen University)
Light integral during the growth phase of the leaf as determinant for photosynthetic capacity? [PS22.13]
Miss Elisa Corteggiani Carpinelli (University of Padova)
Further characterization of cpPhi1, a recently identified redox component of PSII in higher plants. [PS22.14]
Dr Enrico Teardo (University of Padova)
Biophysical and Biochemical Characterization of a chloroplast-located Plant Glutamate Receptor [PS22.15]
Mr Sander Hogewoning (Wageningen University)
The acclimation of photosynthesis in cucumber leaves to different ratios of red and blue light [PS22.16]
Mr Noriaki Tanabe (Kiki University)
Identification of int [PS22.17]
Dr Setsuko Wakao (University of California Berkeley)
Characterization of singlet oxygen acclimation mutants in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [PS22.18]
Mr Fukushima Yoshimasa (Nagoya University)
Photoreaction of the cyanobacterial BLUF protein PixD studied by low temperature spectroscopy: Photoconversion without a Tyr8 residue [PS22.19]
Mr Kleovoulos Athanasiou (University of Manchester)
A glucose-6-phosphate/phosphate transported is essential for photoysnthetic acclimation in Aradidopsis thaliana [PS22.20]
Ms Eva Rupprecht (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Research, Faculty of Biology,
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany)
Stress response of multiple Hsp70 proteins from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 [PS22.21]
Dr Rachel Webster (University of Manchester)
The role of GPT2 in photosynthesis [PS22.22]
Dr Taina Tyystjärvi (University of Turku)
Group 2 sigma factors and stress responses in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 [PS22.23]
Mr Krishna Nath (Department of Biological sciences, Pusan National University)
Characterization of a T-DNA inserted STN8 kinase mutant of Oryza sativa L. [PS22.24]
Dr Irina Strizh (Plant Physiology Department, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, Russia)
The Mehler reaction as the link between environmental stresses and chloroplast redox signaling. [PS22.25]
Prof. Michael Hippler (University of Münster)
Comparative quantitative proteomics to investigate the remodelling of bioenergetic pathways under iron-deficiency in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [PS22.26]
Dr Marika Lindahl (Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC, 41092 Sevilla, SPAIN)
Membrane proteins from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 interacting with thioredoxin [PS22.27]
Mr Hiroaki Yamasaki (Kyushu University)
The Adaptation Mechanism to Copper Deficiency via microRNA in Arabidopsis [PS22.28]
Mrs Lea Hallik (University of Tartu)
Light acclimation of leaf chlorophyll content [PS22.29]
Dr Massimo Piccotto (Department of Biology, University of Trieste - Italy)
Chlorophyll a Fluorescence emission and photosynthetic performances of green-algal lichens along a light regime gradient in the Mediterranean region [PS22.30]
Miss Mila Kojadinovic (CEA Cadarache, DSV/IBEB/LBC, UMR 6191 CNRS/CEA/Univ Aix-Marseille, St Paul-Lez-Durance, France)
Photosynthesis and respiration regulation by the bacteriophytochrome RpBph1 in the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris [PS22.31]
Mrs Diana Kirilovsky (CEA-CNRS)
A new photoactive protein acting as a sensor of light intensity: the Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP) [PS22.32]
Mrs Giulia Bonente (University of Verona-Italy)
Interactions between the photosystem II subunit PsbS and xanthophylls as studied in vivo [PS22.33]
Isabel Nogués (CNR)
Ozone effects on the metabolism and the antioxidant system in poplar leaves at different stages of development [PS22.34]
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