Sunday PM
Session 1 | Structures of Photosynthetic Protein Complexes |
| 7:30-7:45 pm | Introduction - Wolfram Saenger (Free U. Berlin) |
| 7:45 pm | Session Chair: Richard Cogdell (U. Glasgow) |
| 7:45-8:00 | Patrick Jordan (Free U. Berlin) - Structure of photosystem I from Synechococcus elongatus at 2.5 A resolution |
| 8:00-8:25 | Dietmar Stehlik (Free U. Berlin) - Correlation of structural and functional properties of the cofactors (involved in light-induced electron transfer) in photosystem I. |
| 8:30-8:45 | Athina Zouni (Free U. Berlin) - Crystal structure analysis of photosystem II: crystallization and structural overview. |
| 8:45-9:00 | Peter Orth (Free U. Berlin) - Crystal structure analysis of photosystem II: cofactor arrangement |
| 9:00-9:30 | Discussion - Discussion Leaders: Wolfram Saenger (Free U. Berlin) & Richard Cogdell (U. Glasgow) |
| 9:30 | RECEPTION |
Monday AM
Session 2 | Energy Transfer Processes in Antenna Complexes |
| 8:45 am | Group Photograph |
| 9:00 | Introduction - Session Chair: Rienk van Grondelle (Free U. Amsterdam) |
| 9:15-9:40 | Thijs Aartsma (Leiden U.) - Single-molecule spectroscopy of the B800-850 (LH2) complex of purple bacteria. |
| 9:45-10:10 | Graham Fleming (U. California at Berkeley) - Photosynthetic energy transfer, the interplay of electronic coupling and disorder. |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-11:10 | Jonathan Lindsey (North Carolina State U.) - Photochemical properties of synthetic light-harvesting arrays. |
| 11:15-12:30 | Discussion - Discussion Leader: Robert Blankenship (Arizona St. U.)
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| 4-6 pm | Poster Session |
Monday PM
Session 3 | Mechanism of Biological Electron Transfer |
| 7:30 pm | Introduction - Session Chair: Joshua Jortner (Tel Aviv U.) |
| 7:45-8:10 | Stephan Isied (Rutgers U.) - Electron transfer across peptides with the polyproline II and collagen structures |
| 8:15-8:40 | P. Leslie Dutton (U. Pennsylvania) - Electron tunneling in reaction
centers and bc1 complex: the long and the short of it. |
| 8:45-9:30 | Discussion - Discussion Leader: David Beratan (U. Pittsburgh) |
Tuesday AM
Session 4 | Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer |
| 9:00 am | Introduction - Session Chair: Marilyn Gunner (City U. of New York) |
| 9:15-9:40 | Melvin Okamura (U. California at San Diego) - Proton transfer to quinones in bacterial reaction centers. |
| 9:45-10:10 | Gernot Renger (Technical U. Berlin) - Coupling of electron and proton transfer in photosynthetic water cleavage. |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-11:10 | Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Pennsylvania State U.) - Theoretical perspectives on proton-coupled electron transfer. |
| 11:15-12:30 | Discussion - Discussion Leader: Colin Wraight (U. Illinois) |
| 4-6 pm | Poster Session |
Tuesday PM
Session 5 | Primary Processes in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers |
| 7:30 pm | Introduction - Session Chair: Steven Boxer (Stanford U.) |
| 7:45-8:10 | Christine Kirmaier (Washington U.) - M-side electron transfer in the bacterial reaction center. |
| 8:15-8:40 | Nancy Makri (U. Illinois ) - Early events in photosynthesis: theoretical studies of energy and electron transfer. |
| 8:45-9:30 | Discussion - Discussion Leader: William Parson (U. Washington) |
Wednesday AM
Session 6 | Proton Pumping and Secondary Electron Transfer Reactions |
| 9:00 am | Introduction - Session Chair: William Cramer (Purdue U.) |
| 9:15-9:40 | Mark Girvin (Albert Einstein U.) - Conformational changes related to proton translocation in subunit c of the ATP synthase. |
| 9:45-10:10 | Janos Lanyi (U. California at Irvine) - X-ray diffraction structure of bacteriorhodopsin and its changes during proton transport. |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-11:10 | Janet Smith (Purdue U.) - Structures of cytochrome b6f and components: what can we learn (or not learn) from cytochrome bc1 |
| 11:15-11:40 | Wolfgang Nitschke (CNRS Marseille) - The pivoting Rieske protein in the b6f complex seen by EPR; similarities and differences with respect to bc1-complexes. |
| 11:45-12:30 | Discussion - Discussion Leaders: William Cramer (Purdue U.) and Armen
Mulkidjanian (U. Osnabrück) |
| 4-6 pm | Poster Session |
Wednesday PM
Session 7 | Photosystems I and II |
| 7:30 pm | Introduction - Session Chair: John Golbeck (Pennsylvania State U.) |
| 7:45-8:10 | Werner Kuhlbrandt (Max Planck Institute Biophysics, Frankfurt) - Structure and function of photosystem II membrane proteins. |
| 8:15-8:40 | Roseanne Sension (U. Michigan) - Ultrafast charge separation in photosystem II. |
| 8:45-9:10 | Walter Struve (Iowa State U.) - Primary processes in Photosystem I of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. |
| 9:15-9:30 | Discussion - Discussion Leader: A. William Rutherford (Saclay) |
Thursday AM
Session 8 | Oxygen Evolution |
| 9:00 am | Introduction - Session Chair: Gerald Babcock (Michigan State U.)
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| 9:15-9:40 | Fabrice Rappaport (CNRS Paris) - The energetics of proton transfers associated with YZ oxidation and reduction: a tentative discussion |
| 9:45-10:10 | Takumi Noguchi (RIKEN) - FTIR analysis of the structure of the oxygen evolving complex. |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-11:10 | Per Siegbahn (Stockholm U.) - Quantum chemical studies of the oxygen radical mechanism or O2 formation in photosystem II. |
| 11:15-12:30 | Discussion - Discussion Leader: Bruce Diner (DuPont) |
| 4-6 pm | Poster Session |
Thursday PM
Session 9 | Young Investigator Talks and Outside Perspective Lecture |
| 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| 8:00 | Introduction - Session Chair: Marion Thurnauer (Argonne National Lab) |
| 8:15-9:00 | Young Investigator Talks |
| 9:00-9:30 | Outside Perspective Speaker: Elizabeth Getzoff (Scripps Research Institute) - Approaching structural biology at sub-Angstrom, sub-microsecond resolution: Crystal structures defining a protein photocycle. |
