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April 12
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presentation:
May 10
Program
29 June, Sunday PROGRAM BOOKLET
14:00- 16:00 Registration
16:00 Welcome
Session 1
Chair: Imre Vass
Photosynthetic light harvesting and electron transport
16:15 - 16:50 Luca Dall'Osto (Invited lecture)
Tuning the outer antenna system of Photosystem II: structural and functional insights
16:50 - 17:10 Michael Hippler
N-terminal region of PetD is essential for cytochrome b6f function and controls STT7 kinase activity via STT7-dependent feedback loop phosphorylation
17:15 - 17:40 Dušan Lazár
Photosynthesis in harmonically oscillating light
19:00- 20:00 Dinner (included in the accomodation fee or requested in advance)
30 June, Monday
Session 1
Chair: Tomás Polívka
Photosynthetic light harvesting and electron transport (continuation)
8:45 - 9:10 Howe-Siang Tang
Inter-complex excitation energy transfer processes in photosystem II supercomplexes
9:10 - 9:35 Petar Lambrev
Strategies for efficient light harvesting in Photosystem I
9:35 - 10:00 Jevgenij Chmeliov
Low-energy inter-chlorophyll charge-transfer states in the photosynthetic light-harvesting antenna complexes
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
Session 2
Chair: Anja Krieger-Liszkay
Biogenesis and maintenance of the photosynthetic apparatus
10:30 - 11:05 Xenie Johnson (Invited lecture)
The Copper Superoxide Scavenger of Oxygenic Photosynthesis
11:05 - 11:30 Szilvia Z. Tóth
Chloroplast phosphate transporters PHT4-3 and PHT4-7 are essential for
photosynthesis and stress tolerance in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
11:30 - 11:55 Katalin Solymosi
Plastid plasticity and photosynthetic efficiency in horse chestnut leaves
11:55 - 12:20 Václav Karlický
Acclimation of Arabidopsis thaliana to green light: causes and consequences of accumulation of geranylgeranylated chlorophylls in the pigment-protein complexes
12:20 - 12:45 Yu Ogawa
High-resolution cryo-EM structure of Chlamydomonas Photosystem I complexed with Cytochrome c6
12:45-14:00 Lunch (incl. registration fee)
Session 3
Chairs: Cornelia Spetea and Katalin Solymosi
Photosynthesis under stress
14:00 -14:35 David Kramer (Invited lecture)
The limitations of photosynthesis: What in the world can we do?
14:35 - 15:00 Anja Krieger-Liszkay
State transitions affect susceptibility to drought in arabidopsis thaliana
15:00 - 15:25 Tomáš Polívka
Spectroscopy of High-Light Induced Proteins: Key for Understanding the Quenching Mechanism
15: 25 - 15:50 Coffee break
15:50 - 16:15 Federico Vincenzo Alvaro
Knocking out doubts: how to resolve the role of Lhcb2 in plant photoprotection
16:15 - 16:40 Pablo Calzadilla
Sheeding light onto the role of the plastid terminal oxidase (PTOX) as a safety valve for photoprotection in plants
16:40 - 17:05 André Vidal-Meireles
Two novel conserved thylakoid lumenal TPM-domain proteins are involved in PSII turnover
17:05- 18:30 Poster session
19:00-20:00 Dinner (included in the accomodation fee or requested in advance)
1 July, Tuesday
Session 4
Chair: Michael Hippler
Carbon assimilation and biomass accumulation
08:45 - 09:20 Alistair McCormick (Invited lecture)
Expanding the scope of pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms to enhance plant photosynthesis
09:20 - 09:45 Cornelia Spetea
Updates on the chloroplast ion transporters regulating photosynthesis under stress in plants and green algae
09:45 - 10:10 Imre Vass
Effects of salt stress on photosynthetic electron transport pathways in the Synechocystis PCC 6803 cyanobacterium
10:10 - 10:35 Ingrid Lindeman
Dawn light composition affects photosynthetic rate, carbohydrate metabolism and the circadian clock in controlled environment grown vitis sp.
10:35 - 11:00 Tomáš Zavøel
Photosynthesis Under Changing Light: The Interplay Between Phycobilisome Composition and Light Quality Acclimation in Cyanobacteria
11:00 - 12:40 Coffee break + Poster session
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch (incl. registration fee)
Session 5
Chair: David Kramer
Improving photosynthesis and applied photosynthesis
14:00 - 14:35 Barry Bruce (Invited lecture)
Photosystem I: From Application to Evolution — The Serendipity of Scientific Discovery
14:35 - 15:00 Stefano Cazzaniga
Monomeric antennae CP26 and CP29 reveal distinct roles in light harvesting and
excess light energy dissipation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
15:00 - 15:25 Sergey Kosourov
Engineered photosynthetic biocatalysts for improved light utilization and sustained production of chemicals and fuels
15:25 - 15:50 Eba Itafa
Exploring Non-Model Cyanobacteria for green electricity generation in biophotovoltaics
15:50 - 16:15 Peter Erlsbacher
Sustainability of cyanobacterial biotransformations
16:15 - 17:00 Cultural event
19:00-20:00 Dinner (included in the accomodation fee or requested in advance)
2 July, Wednesday
Session 6
Chairs: Bettina Ughy and Szilvia Z. Tóth
Algal biotechnology
09:00 - 09:35 Yagut Allahverdiyeva (Invited lecture)
Photosynthetic biotechnologies: from biomass to biocatalytic production
09:35 - 10:00 Sara Jaehnert
Manipulating photosynthetic electron transfer post photosystem I under anoxia
10:00 - 10:25 Iftach Yacoby
Algal Hydrogen & Biomass Farming
10:25- 10:55 Coffee break
10:55 - 11:20 Fatemeh Khosravitabar
Optimizing algal hydrogen photoproduction: a simplified and efficient protocol for anoxic induction in a semi-autotrophic approach
11:20 - 11:45 Gabriel Giannini Beillon
Immobilization of microalgae in a microstructured hydrogel: application to the production of biohydrogen
11:45 - 12:10 Bettina Ughy
Growth phases of microalgal populations and the individual cell division
12:10-12:30 Flash talk for Poster Prizes
12:30 Closing
Departure