Programme
June 11, 2012
Sciences III, Room A150
- 09:00-10:15
- Registration and coffee
- 10:15
- Welcome address
- 10:30 – 13:00
- Session 1 - PHOTOSYNTHESIS - Chair: Sabeeha Merchant
- Francis-André Wollman - Thylakoid membranes: a flexible matrix for bioenergetic processes
- Nathan Nelson - Structure and evolution of photosynthetic reaction centers
- Kevin Redding - PSI is our playground: using mutagenesis and spectroscopy to map electron transfer routes within a protein
- Kris Niyogi - Regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting
- Alison Smith - Exploiting algae for bioenergy
- 13:00 – 14:30
- Lunch
- 14:30 – 16:00
- Session 2 - RYTHMS AND CHANNELS - Chair: Ueli Schibler
- Steve Kay - Unraveling Circadian Transcriptional Networks
- Samer Hattar - Diverse functions for atypical mammalian photoreceptors
- Peter Hegemann - The three lives of channelrhodopsin
- 16:00 – 16:30
- Coffee break
- 16:30 – 18:00
- Session 3 - PHOTORECEPTORS - Chair: Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont
- Christian Fankhauser - Sensing light direction: signal transduction during phototropism in Arabidopsis
- Angela Falciatore - Shedding light on the marine environment: the conundrum of the phytochrome photoreceptor in diatoms
- Roman Ulm - UV-B perception and signaling in plants
- 18:00 – 18:30
- GUEST OF HONOR
- Jean-David Rochaix - Recollections - 44 years of chloroplast research
- 18:30 - 20:00
- Apéro / Social mixer
June 12, 2012
- 09:00 – 12:00
- Student tutorials
- 13:30 – 18:30
- Excursion