Abbreviated Schedule of Events
All events will take place at Turkey Run Inn. Meeting sessions and poster presentations will take place in the Lusk Room. Meals will be served in the Narrows Dining Room.
Friday, November 4
4:00 – 6:00 PM Arrival: Registration and Poster Hanging
6:00 PM Dinner
7:30 PM Welcome
7:40 PM Session 1 Keynote Lecture
8:30 PM Session 2: Regulation Contributed Paper
9:15 PM Mixer and Poster Viewing
Saturday, November 5
7:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM Session 3a: Light Harvesting Contributed Papers
10:20 AM Coffee/Tea Break
10:50 AM Session 3b: Light Harvesting Contributed Papers
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Leisure Time, Viewing of Posters
4:00 PM Poster Session, Refreshments
6:00 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Session 4: Structure/Function Contributed Papers
8:40 PM Mixer and Poster Viewing
Sunday, November 6
7:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM Session 5: Metabolism/Engineering Contributed Papers
9:45 AM Coffee/ Tea Break and Checkout
10:15 AM Award Ceremony for Best Posters and Best Talks
10:30 AM Closing Remarks
11:00 AM Departure
Detailed Schedule of Events
Friday Evening, November 4
Session I. Keynote Lecture
Chair: Sergei Savikhin or Carole Dabney-Smith
7:30 PM Opening Remarks and Welcome
7:40 PM Session 1: Keynote Speaker: Rachel Morgan-Kiss, Miami University, Oxford OH
PHOTOSYNTHETIC ADAPTATION TO THE PERMANENT COLD AND THE ROLE OF SUSTAINED CYCLIC ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN THE PHOTOPSYCHROPHILE CHLAMYDOMONAS SP. UWO241
Session 2: Regulation
Chair: Terry Bricker, LSU
8:30 PM INTERACTION OF THE TRANS-MEMBRANE SER-THR KINASE STT7, WHICH MEDIATES STATE TRANSITIONS, WITH THE CYTOCHROME b6f COMPLEX
Sandeep K Singh, S. Saif Hasan, Stanislav D. Zakharov, Sejuti Naurin, Whitaker Cohn, Jia Ma, Julian P. Whitelegge, and William A. Cramer
8:50 PM BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN SHORT- AND LONG-TERM LIGHT ACCLIMATION
Gábor Bernát, David M. Kehoe, and Ondřej Prášil
9:15 PM Mixer and Poster Viewing
Saturday Morning, November 5
Session 3A. Light Harvesting
Chair: Rachael Morgan-Kiss, Miami University (OH)
9:00 AM CORRELATED EXCITON ENVIRONMENTS IN THE FENNA-MATTHEWS-OLSON COMPLEX
Brian S. Rolczynski, Haibin Zheng, Ved P. Singh, Polina Navotnaya, Alan R. Ginzburg, Justin R. Caram, Khuram Ashraf, Alastair T. Gardiner, Richard J. Cogdell, Gregory S. Engel
9:20 AM ACCESSING EXCITONIC STRUCTURE OF FENNA-MATTHEWS-OLSON COMPLEX BY TIME-RESOLVED CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY
Valentyn Stadnytskyi, Gregory Orf, Robert Blankenship, Sergei Savikhin
9:40 AM THE FAR-RED LIGHT ABSORBING ANTENNA OF A EUSTIGMATOPHYTE ALGA ISOLATED FROM AN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT
Benjamin M. Wolf, Nikki Magdaong, Dariusz Niedzwiedzki, Gregory S. Orf, Robyn Roth, Ursula Goodenough, Robert E. Blankenship
10:00 AM ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPIC INSIGHT INTO CYSTEINE-MEDIATED EXCITON REGULATION IN THE FENNA-MATTHEWS-OLSON COMPLEX
Marco A. Allodi, John P. Otto, Sara H. Sohail, Po-Chieh Ting, Sara C. Massey, Peter D. Dahlberg, Brian S. Rolczynski, Ryan E. Wood, Lawson Lloyd, Jake Higgins, & Gregory. S. Engel
10:20 AM Coffee/Tea Break
Session 3B. Light Harvesting
Chair: Rachael Morgan-Kiss, Miami University (OH)
10:50 AM ULTRAFAST TRANSITION TO LOWER LYING EXCITED STATE IN LIGHT HARVESTING COMPLEX 1 REVEALED THROUGH RECOVERY OF 2D ABSORPTIVE LINESHAPES IN VIVO
Sara H. Sohail, Peter D. Dahlberg, Marco A. Allodi, Sara C. Massey, Po-Chieh Ting, Elizabeth C. Martin, C. Neil Hunter, and Gregory S. Engel
11:10 AM THE A1 BINDING SITE OF PHOTOSYSTEM I STUDIED BY TIME-RESOLVED FTIR DIFFERENCE SPECTROSCOPY
Hiroki Makita and Gary Hastings
11:30 AM CHARACTERIZATION OF PICOSECOND DYNAMICS IN ORANGE CAROTENOID PROTEIN WITH ACTIVATION STATE DEPENDENCE
Yanting Deng, Mengyang Xu, Haijun Liu, Robert E. Blankenship and A. G. Markelz
12:00 PM Lunch
Saturday Afternoon
1:00 PM Leisure Time, Poster Viewing
4:00 PM Poster Session, Refreshments
6:00 PM Dinner
Saturday Evening
Session 4. Structure/Function
Chair: David Vinyard, LSU
7:00 PM STRUCTURE-FUNCTION STUDIES OF CUPA, A PROTEIN INVOLVED IN THE CARBON UPTAKE SYSTEM NDH-13 OF SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC6803
Juliana Artier, Steven C Holland, Minquan Zhang, Robert L Burnap
7:20 PM SPECIALIZED PSI-LHC SUPERCOMPLEXES RESPOND TO HIGH LIGHT AND AGEING
Eliezer Schwarz, Stephanie Tietz, John Froelich
7:40 PM EFFICIENT COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC PROTEINS: NO COMPUTER BREAKS
Yongbin Kim and Lyudmila Slipchenko
8:00 PM CHANGES IN ELECTRON FLOW OBSERVED IN CARBON SINK MUTANTS OF THE CYANOBACTERIUM SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803
Steven C. Holland, Juliana Artier, Neil Miller, Melissa Cano, Junpeng Yu, Maria Ghirardi, Robert L. Burnap
8:20 PM THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE ORANGE CAROTENOID PROTEIN AND THE FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY PROTEIN
Yue Lu, Haijun Liu, Rafael Saer, Veronica Li, Hao Zhang, Christine Meyer, Michael L. Gross, Robert E. Blankenship
8:40PM Mixer and Poster Viewing
Sunday Morning, November 6
Session V. Metabolism/Engineering
Chair: Toivo Kallas, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
9:00 AM A TRANSIENT CRISPR/CAS9 EDITING SYSTEM TO MAKE SCARLESS GENOME MODIFICATIONS IN SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS UTEX 2973
Kristen E. Wendt, Justin Ungerer, Huimin Zhao, and Himadri B. Pakrasi
9:20 AM ENGINEERING NITROGEN FIXATION ABILITY IN SYNECHOCYSTIS 6803
Deng Liu, Maitrayee Bhattacharyya, Michelle Liberton, Jingjie Yu, Huimin Zhao, and Himadri B. Pakrasi
9:45 AM Coffee/Tea Break
10:15 AM Awards: Best Undergraduate Student Poster, Best Graduate Student Poster and Best Student Talk
Chair: Carole Dabney-Smith
10:30 AM Closing Notes and Announcements
11:00 AM Departure