Photosynthesis and Bioenergetics. 21 to 24 March 2016, Nanyang Executive Centre, Nanyang Technological University

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1 Pre-registration: 20 March 2016 (Sunday) 04:00 pm - 08:00 pm Pre-registration (Speakers only) 07:00 pm 10:00 pm Social Reception Campus Clubhouse (For Speakers and NTU Faculties only) Day 1 Program: 21 March 2016 (Monday) 08:00 am - 09:00 am Registration 09:00 am - 09:20am Welcome address by Phua Kok Khoo (Director, Institute of Advanced Studies) Opening address by Bertil Andersson (President, Nanyang Technological University) Chair s address by James Barber FRS (Imperial College London) Morning Session Chairman: Bertil Andersson (NTU, Singapore) 09:20 am - 10:05 am John Walker FRS (Nobel Laureate, University of Cambridge, UK ) Generation and regulation of rotation in ATP synthase 10:05 am - 10:50 am Leslie Dutton FRS (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Structure Engineering of Natural Solar Energy Conversion 10:50 am - 11:20 am Group Photograph & Coffee Break 11:20 am 12:05 pm Rudy Marcus (Nobel Laureate, California Institute of Technology, USA) Rates, Equilibrium Constants and Bronsted slopes in F1-ATPase Single Molecule Imaging: Experiments and a Theoretical approach 12:05 pm pm Daniel Nocera (Harvard University, USA) The Artificial Leaf: From Sunlight + Water + Carbon Dioxide to Biomass and Liquid Fuel 12:50 pm - 01:35 pm Lunch 1

2 Afternoon Session Chairman: Leslie Dutton FRS (Philadelphia, USA) 01:35 pm - 02:20 pm Marten Wikstrom (Helsinki University, Finland) The Proton Pump of Cytochrome Oxidase - the Known and the Unknown 02:20 pm - 03:05 pm Peter Rich (University College London, UK) Mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidases: Functions of the Hydrophilic Channels and Supernumerary subunits 03:05 pm 03:50 pm James Murray (Imperial College London, UK) Extensible Protein Scaffolds Based on Beta Solenoids 03:50 pm - 04:10 pm Coffee Break 04:10 pm - 04:55 pm Wolfgang Junge (University of Osnabrueck, Germany) Around Proton-Driven and Into Rotary ATP Synthase 04:55 pm - 05:40 pm Jasper van Thor (Imperial College London, UK) Femtosecond Infrared Crystallography of Photosynthesis: Watching Exciton Equilibration in Real Space 05:40 pm 06:25 pm Marilyn Gunner (City University of New York, USA) Mechanisms for Generating Proton Transmembrane Gradients using Proton Pumps 06:40 pm Depart for Workshop Banquet Dinner 07:30 pm 10:00 pm Dinner Banquet (by Invitation only) Bus will leave from Nanyang Executive Centre, Guest Wing Lobby to Raffles Marina Club at 6.40pm for the dinner banquet. After banquet, bus will leave for Nanyang Executive Centre, Guest Wing Lobby 2

3 Day 2 Program: 22 March 2016 (Tuesday) Morning Session Chairman: John Walker (Nobel Laureate, University of Cambridge, UK) 09:00 am - 09:45 am James Barber FRS (Imperial College London, UK) Mn4CaO4 cluster of the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II 09:45 am - 10:30 am Judy Hirst (University of Cambridge, UK) Approaches to Determining the Mechanism of Catalysis by Respiratory Complex I 10:30 am 10:50 am Coffee Break 10:50 am 11:35 am Leonid Sazanov (The Institute of Science and Technology, Austria) Structure and Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I 11:35 am - 12:20 pm Neil Hunter FRS (University of Sheffield, UK) Native and Fabricated Membrane Protein Architectures for Energy Transfer and Trapping 12:20 pm - 01:05 pm General Discussion 01:05 pm - 01:50 pm Lunch Afternoon Session Chairman: Daniel Nocera (Harvard, USA) 01:50 pm - 02:35 pm Werner Kühlbrandt (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics -Frankfurt, Germany) High-resolution cryoem of Chloroplast and Mitochondrial ATP Synthase 02:35 pm - 03:20 pm Anthony Moore (University of Sussex, UK) Identification of the residues lining the ubiquinol-binding site of the alternative oxidases using novel site-specific inhibitors 3

4 03:20 pm 03:40 pm Coffee Break 03:40 pm - 04:25 pm Alison Telfer (Imperial College London, UK) The use of different chlorophylls to extend the spectrum of light energy capture and storage during photosynthesis 04:25 pm - 05:10 pm Fraser Armstrong (Oxford University, UK) A new mechanism for [NiFe]-hydrogenases, and its wider implications 05:10 pm 05:55 pm Sandor Volkan-Kacso (California Institute of Technology, USA) Theory of the angular modulation of ligand binding rates and equilibrium constants in F1-ATPase controlled rotation experiments 06:45 pm Depart for Dinner at President s Lodge pm 09:30 pm Dinner at President s Lodge (By invitation only) Bus will leave from Nanyang Executive Centre, Guest Wing Lobby to President s Lodge at 6.45pm. After dinner, bus will leave for Nanyang Executive Centre, Guest Wing Lobby. 4

5 Day 3 Program: 23 March 2016 (Wednesday) Morning Session Chairman: Marten Wikstrom (Helsinki University, Finland) 08:45 am - 09:30 am Alfred Rutherford FRS (Imperial College London, UK) Role of Bicarbonate in Photosystem II: a redox tuning-based regulation mechanism 09:30 am - 10:15 am Gary Brudvig (Yale University, USA) The Oxygen Isotope Effect of Photosystem II Unveiled 10:15 am 10:35 am Coffee Break 10:35 am - 11:20 am Per Siegbahn (Stockholm University, Sweden) The critical steps in water oxidation and proton pumping 11:20 am - 12:05 pm Nicholas Cox (Max PIanck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion- Mullheim, Germany) Activation of Nature s water splitting catalyst: spin state as a marker for structure evolution 12:05 pm - 12:50 pm Nathan Nelson (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 12:50 pm - 01:40 pm Lunch High-resolution structures of plant and cyanobacterial Photosystem I Afternoon Session Chairman: James Barber(Imperial College London, UK) (Session Dedicated to the memory of Prof Jan Anderson, FRS, FAA) 01:40 pm - 02:25 pm Bertil Andersson (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) A Tribute to Jan Anderson 5

6 02:25 pm - 03:10 pm Oliver Mueller-Cajar (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) The Rubisco activation machinery of phytoplankton and autotrophic bacteria 03:10 pm - 03:55 pm Alexander Ruban (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Dynamic light harvesting membrane 03:55 pm - 04:15 pm Coffee Break 04:15 pm - 05:00 pm Helmut Kirchhoff (Washington State University, USA) From Molecules to Membranes: Understanding the plasticity of plant photosynthe membranes. 05:00 pm 05:45 pm Peter Nixon (Imperial College London, UK) Repair and the evolution of photosystem II 05:45 pm 06:30 pm Wah Soon Chow (Australian National University, Australia) Towards quantification of the cyclic electron flux around Photosystem I in leaves Closing Remarks Day 4 Program: 24 March (Thursday) Organized tour of Singapore 9:30 am 04:00 pm City Tour Bus will depart from Nanyang Executive Centre, Guest Wing Lobby at 9.30am. 6