Lawrence Prochaska, Wright State University School of Medicine, Subgroup Chair

MORNING SYMPOSIUM: PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND SOLAR ENERGY CONSERVATION

Petra Fromme, Arizona State University, and Gary Brudvig, Yale University, Session Co-Chairs

9:00 AM
INTRODUCTION
Petra Fromme, Arizona State University, and Gary Brudvig, Yale University

9:05 AM
CYCLIC ELECTRON TRANSFER AND PHOTOSYNTHETIC ENERGY BALANCE
Dave Kramer, Washington State University

9:35 AM
PHOTOSYNTHETIC ANTENNA SYSTEMS: THE PLACE WHERE LIGHT INTERFACES WITH BIOLOGY
Robert Blankenship, Washington University

10:05 AM
WHY IN THE WORLD IS THERE AN H-BOND TO THE QUINONES IN PHOTOSYSTEM I?
John Golbeck, Penn State University

10:35 AM
Coffee Break

10:50 AM
TITLE TO BE ANNOUNCED
Tom Moore, Arizona State University

11:20 AM
FROM NATURAL TO ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS - BIOMIMETIC CHEMISTRY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN FROM SOLAR ENERGY AND WATER
Stenbjorn Styring, Uppsala University, Sweden

11:50 AM
DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF ARTIFICIAL HYDROGENASES
Anne Jones, Arizona State University

12:20 PM
General Discussion
 

AFTERNOON SYMPOSIUM: MITOCHONDRIA IN DISEASE

Jan B. Hoek, Thomas Jefferson University, and Paolo Bernardi, University of Padova, Italy, Session Co-Chairs

1:15 PM
Young Bioenergeticist Award

1:30 PM
INTRODUCTION
Paolo Bernardi, University of Padova, Italy, and Jan B. Hoek, Thomas Jefferson University

2:00 PM
SYSTEMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE GENES THROUGH INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS
Sarah Calvo, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

2:30 PM
NEW MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE MECHANISMS UNRAVELED BY NEW MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE GENES
Massimo Zeviani, Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy

3:00 PM
Coffee Break

3:15 PM
FROM MODEL ORGANISM TO WOLF-HIRSCHHORN SYNDROME PATIENTS: CHARACTERIZATION AND ROLE OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL KHE
Karin Nowikovsky, University of Vienna, Austria

3:45 PM
PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MITOCHONDRIA TARGETED CYTOCHROMES P450 AND RELATED PROTEINS
Narayan Avadhani, University of Pennsylvania

4:15 PM
MITOCHONDRIAL ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE AND EPSILON PKC – THE BATTLEFRONT PROTECTION FROM OXIDATIVE STRESS
Daria Mochly-Rosen, Stanford University

4:45 PM
General Discussion

5:30 PM
Subgroup Business Meeting

7:00 PM
Subgroup Dinner