4–6 Dec 2023
ELI ALPS Facility
Europe/Budapest timezone

SATELLITE EVENT - Symposium on Ultrafast Photobiological Processes, 6 December

A satellite event called Symposium on Ultrafast Photobiological Processes will take place at the ELI ALPS Facility on 6 December, in parallel with the Joint ELI Workshop on Advanced Technologies.

Detailed programme:

09:15 - 09:30
Welcome
Petar Lambrev, HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged

09:30 - 10:00
Exploring regulation of light harvesting in vivo with picosecond spectroscopy and microscopy
Herbert van Amerongen, Wageningen University

10:00 - 10:30
Mechanisms of primary charge separation in the Chlorophyll-d binding Photosystem I of Acaryochloris
Stefano Santabarbara, Italian National Research Council

10:30 - 11:00 / Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 11:30
Exploration of excitation energy transfer among higher excited states in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes
Heiko Lokstein, Charles University in Prague

11:30 - 12:00
Quantification short-range effects in the special pair of photosystem II: The non-conservative nature of circular dichroism
Thomas Renger, Johannes Kepler University Linz

12:00 - 12:30
Tracking energy flow in bacterial photosynthetic units in vivo  
Donatas Zigmantas, Lund University

12:30 - 14:00 / Lunch Break

 

14:00 - 14:30
Deprotonation of a Cysteine residue monitored in living cells via nanosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Sabine Oldemeyer, Free University of Berlin

14:30 - 15:00
Photocycle of a photoactivable adenylate cyclase (PAC) revealed by ultrafast spectroscopy
András Lukács, University of Pécs

15:00 - 15:30
The S-layer Deinoxanthin Binding Complex: a photo-protective porin with ROS scavenging activity
Dario Piano, University of Cagliari

15:30 - 16:00 / Coffee Break

 

16:00 - 16:30
Nonlinear microscopy in biology and medicine
Virginijus Barzda, University of Toronto

16:30 - 17:00
Chlorophyll triplet quenching by carotenoids
Jakub Pšenčik, Charles University in Prague