Jim Barber, President of ISPR, London, UK
Nejat Veziroglu, President of IAHE, Miami, USA
Seiji Akimoto, Molecular Photoscience Reserch Center, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
“Optimization of light harvesting probed by time-resolved spectroscopy”
Eva-Mari Aro, University of Turku, Finland
“Alternative electron transfer routes in thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts and cyanobacteria”
Marc Brecht, Universitat Tuebingen, Instituts fur Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Germany
“Single-Molecule Spectroscopy on PSI and PSI-Nano-Hybrids”
Donald Bryant, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
“Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002: a robust cyanobacterial platform for biofuels development”
Barry D. Bruce, Sustainable Energy and Education Research Center (SEERC), University of Tennessee, USA
Gary Brudvig, Yale University, USA
“Water oxidation for solar fuel production”
Peter Brzezinski, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
“Structure and function of cytochrome c oxidase”
Robert Carpentier, Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada
Holger Dau, Freie University, Berlin, Germany
”Protonation Dynamics in Photosynthetic Water Oxidation“
Leslie Dutton, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Julian Eaton-Rye, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
“Photosystem II lipoprotein in Cyanobacteria”
Hadi Farazdaghi, University of Toronto, Canada
“Does Science Matter? A Critique of the Widely Used Model of C3 Photosynthesis”
Arvi Freiberg, Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Estonia
“Spectroscopic effects associated with self-assembly of photosynthetic antenna proteins into native intracytoplasmic membranes”
Gyozo Garab, Biological Research Center, HAS, Inst. Plant Physiology, Szeged, Hungary “Fast, reversible membrane-reorganizations in cyanobacterial and algal cells and in isolated plant thylakoid membranes”
John Golbeck, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
“Production of Solar Biofuels using Modified Biological Components”
Govindjee, University of Illinois, USA
Joanna Grzyb, Institute of Physics, PAS, Warsaw, Poland
“De novo designed proteins - modules for photosynthetic systems”
Harvey J.M. Hou, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
“Mimicking PS II using Mn-oxo complex/tungsten oxide Catalytic Material”
Kentaro Ifuku, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
"Functional diversifications of photosystem II extrinsic subunits in higher plants"
Khurram Saleem Joya, Department of Chemistry, Leiden University, The Netherlands
“A new class of highly efficient and easy accessible single site molecular water splitting catalysts”
Anjana Jajoo, Ahilya University, Indore, India
Wolfgang Junge, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
Diana Kirilovsky, iBiTec-S, Gif sur Yvette, France
“The Orange Carotenoid Protein and Photoprotection: In vitro reconstitution of the photoprotective mechanism”
Vyacheslav V. Klimov, Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russia
Olaf Kruse, Bielefeld University, Center for Biotechnology, Germany
“Моlecular aspects of light to biomass conversion”
Ernst-Walter Knapp, Free University of Berlin, Germany
“Tuning cofactor redox potentials in PSII to foster electron transfer”
Anja Krieger-Liszkay, Institut de Biologie et Technologies de Saclay (IBiTec-S), CNRS URA, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Anthony Larkum, University of Sydney, Australia
Heiko Lokstein, University of Potsdam, Germany
Mahir D. Mamedov, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Russia
“Electrogenic events involving photosystem II”
Jörg Matysik, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
“Photo-CIDNP MAS NMR investigations on photosynthetic systems”
Mamoru Mimuro, Kyoto University, Japan
Frank Müh, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
Norio Murata, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
Nathan Nelson, Tel Aviv University, Israel
“Crystal structure of plant photosystem I and its utilization as a photovoltaic device”
Hiroshi Nishihara, The University of Tokyo, Japan
“A photosensing system composed of phosystem I, molecular wire, gold nanoparticle, and double surfactants in water”
Vladimir Z. Paschenko, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Russia
“Quantum dot-based hybrid system for light energy conversion”
Vasili Petrouleas, Institute of Materials Science, Athens, Greece
“Transient changes in the Mn – TyrZ metalloradical complex during S-state advancement”
Jorg Pieper, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Natalia Pronina, Institute of Plant Physiology, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Seeram Ramakrishna, Vice President of National University of Singapore, Singapore
“Electrospun nanomaterials for energy”
Fabrice Rappaport, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, CNRS, France
Gernot Renger, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
Andrey B. Rubin, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Russia
“Chlorophyll fluorescense and problems of ecological monitoring”
Jean-David Rochaix, University of Geneva, Switzerland
“Molecular analysis of state transitions”
Goran Samuelsson, Umea University, Sweden
Franz-Josef Schmitt, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
"Excitation energy transfer processes in coupled phycobiliprotein complexes of A. marina and semiconductor nanocrystals forming hybrid structures"
Mike Seibert, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
Jian-Ren Shen, Department of Biology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
" Crystal structure of oxygen evolving Photosystem II at an atomic resolution"
Vladimir V. Shuvalov, Institute for Basic Biological Problems, Russia
Tatsuya Tomo, Tokyo University of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
"Current topics of chlorophyll-d dominated cyanobacterial photosystems"
Anatoliy Tsygankov, Institute of Basic Biological Problems, RAS, Pushchino, Russia
Athina Zouni, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
"Progress in the structural biology of photosystem II: a closer look at the acceptor side"
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