Venue

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Program

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Wednesday, September 16, 2015
9:00	Registration
9:30	Holger Dau, Freie Universität Berlin - SFB project A4 Protonation dynamics in photosynthetic water oxidation	20 min
10:00	Robert B. Gennis, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA  >> Diversity of the Heme-Copper Oxidoreductase Superfamily	30 min
10:40	Per Siegbahn, Stockholm University, Sweden  >> Proton transfer steps in photosystem II and cytochrome c oxidase	30 min
11:20	Coffee break
11:50	Felix Ho, Uppsala University, Sweden  >> Water: a multitasker in Photosystem II	30 min
12:30	Johannes Messinger, Umea University, Sweden  >> Substrate binding and exchange in biological water-oxidation	30 min
13:10	Lunch break
14:30	Guided Tour "100 Years of Research in the Science Quarter Berlin-Dahlem"	90 min
16:30	Coffee break
17:00	Ernst-Walter Knapp, Freie Universität Berlin - SFB project C2 Proton transfer in cytochrome c oxidase	20 min
17:30	Ulrike Alexiev, Freie Universität Berlin - SFB project A2 Protonation and conformational dynamics at the surface of proteins	20 min
18:00	Petra Imhof, Freie Universität Berlin - SFB project C5 Pathways in Cytochrome c Oxidase: Proton Transfer and Communication	20 min
19:00	Dinner buffet
20:00	Poster Session	90 min
Thursday, September 17, 2015
9:30	Peter Rich, University College London, UK  >> Mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidases: functions of the hydrophilic channels	30 min
10:10	Constantinos Varotsis, Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos, Cyprus  >> Detection of functional hydrogen-bonded water molecules with protonated/deprotonated key carboxyl side chains in the respiratory enzyme ba3-oxidoreductase	30 min
10:50	Joachim Heberle, Freie Universität Berlin - SFB project A1 and B3 Microfluidic IR spectroscopy on cytochrome c and its cognate oxidase	20 min
11:20	Coffee break
11:50	Robert Burnap, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA  >> Second sphere ligands steer the reactivity of the catalytic metal cluster of photosynthetic oxygen evolution	30 min
12:30	Miwa Sugiura, Emihe University, Japan  >> Effects of Structural Modification around TyrZ and D1-His190 on Proton-coupled Electron Transfer in Photosystem II	30 min
13:10	Lunch break
14:45	Option 1: Guided Tour "History and Overview of the Botanic Garden in Berlin-Dahlem" Option 2: Guided Tour by Yvonne Zilliges "The new CYANO laboratories at FU Berlin"	60 min
16:30	Coffee break
17:00	Martin Bommer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - SFB project A5 Photosystem II in a crystalline packing that resembles its native membrane	20 min
17:30	Ivelina Zaharieva, Freie Universität Berlin - SFB project A4 Structural and functional parallels between the biological water oxidation site and a synthetic manganese-oxide catalyst	20 min
18:00	Ana-Nicoleta Bondar, Freie Universität Berlin - SFB project C4 Dynamic carboxylate/water networks on the surface of the PsbO component of Photosystem II	20 min
19:00	Dinner buffet
20:00	Discussion Round Introduction and Moderation: Holger Dau	90 min
Friday, September 18, 2015
9:30	Ville Kaila, Technische Universität München, Germany  >> Functional water in respiratory and photosynthetic enzymes	30 min
10:10	Qiang Cui, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA  >> QM/MM analysis of proton pumping in cytochrome c oxidase	30 min
10:50	Inez Weidinger, Technische Universität Berlin - SFB project A1 Voltage driven electron and proton transfer of cytochrome c oxidase on electrodes probed by surface enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy	20 min
11:20	Coffee break
11:50	Roland Netz, Jan Daldrop, Freie Universität Berlin - SFB project C1 Proton transition paths are hot	20 min
12:20	Michael Haumann, Freie Universität Berlin  >> Photosynthetic water oxidation studied by x-ray emssion spectroscopy	20 min
12:50	Lunch break
14:00	Stenbjörn Styring, Uppsala University, Sweden  >> Proton reactions around the redox active tyrosines in Photosystem II	30 min
14:40	Peter Brzezinski, Stockholm University, Sweden  >> Cytochrome c oxidase - mechanism and regulation	30 min
15:20	Concluding Discussion
16:30	Coffee break
17:00	End of symposium

                            

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