Event Programme

Christmas Bioenergetics Meeting - December 16th 2019, 10:00 - 18:00

	Activity	Duration
10:00	Registration, poster set up and coffee	55 min
10:55	Opening remarks	5 min
Session 1 structure and assembly. Chair Conrad Mullineaux
11:00	Plenary Talk: Dr Ben Engel, MPI Biochemistry, Munich Exploring molecular landscapes inside photosynthetic organisms with cryo-electron tomography	40 min + 10 min Q
11:50	Lorna Malone, Sheffield Cryo EM structure of the higher plant cytochrome b6f complex	15 min + 5 min Q
12:10	Katherine Richardson, QMUL The redox potentials of photosynthetic complex I	15 min + 5 min Q
12:30	Dr Oliver Biner, MBU Bottom up assembly of an artificial respiratory chain in liposomes	15 min + 5 min Q
12:50	Joko Trinugroho, IC Chlorophyll f synthesis by a super-rogue photosystem II complex	15 min + 5 min Q
13:10	Lunch and posters	50 min
Session 2: Function and mechanisms. Chair Chris Duffy
14:00	Joshua Lawrence, Cambridge Photoelectrochemistry of Cyanobacterial Thylakoid Membranes	15 min + 5 min Q
14:20	Dr Tanai Cardona, IC Investigating the Evolution of Water Oxidation and the role of Tyrosine D in Photosystem II	15 min + 5 min Q
14:40	Kaltum Abdiaziz, IC Development of a new spectroelectrochemical technique: film electrochemical EPR to investigate redox-active molecules	15 min + 5 min Q
15:00	Teijun Wei, QMUL How carotenoid distortions may determine optical properties: lessons from the Orange Carotenoid Protein	15 min + 5 min Q
15:20	James Baxter, IC Millisecond time-resolved synchrotron serial crystallography directly measures photoisomerisation yields of a reversibly switchable fluorescent protein	15 min + 5 min Q
15:40	Dr Fiona Fitzpatrick, MBU Functional characterisation of the human mitochondrial ATP-Mg/Pi carriers and their disease-causing variants	15 min + 5 min Q
16:00	Tea/coffee, refreshments and posters	15 min
Session 3: regulation and acclimation. Chair Guy Hanke
16:15	Gert Schansker, Walz Photosynthetic Control’ regulatory mechanism probed by simultaneous measurements of Chl a fluorescence and the redox states of plastocyanin, P700 and ferredoxin	10 min + 5 min Q
16:30	Francesco Saccon, QMUL Self-regulation of LHCII during non-photochemical quenching in plants	15 min + 5 min Q
16:50	Claire Seydoux, CEA Grenoble Regulation of photosynthesis through proton/potassium exchange in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum	15 min + 5 min Q
17:10	Sarah Flannery, Sheffield Light acclimation of the thylakoid proteome in Arabidopsis	15 min + 5 min Q
17:30	Ruiqian Zhou, QMUL Phototaxis and photosynthesis in cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC6803	10 min + 5 min Q
17:50	Dr Stefania Viola, IC Probing the electric field across thylakoid membranes in cyanobacteria	10 min + 5 min Q
18:10	Closing remarks, award of prizes and announcement of next location	10 min
18:20	Informal drinks, posters	1-2 hr