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Full list of seminars and colloquia since 2012

Summer semester 2024

Mon, 29 April 2024, 3pm -- SupraFAB, FUB, Altensteinstr. 23a, 14195 Berlin [abstracts]

Dr. Nataliya Archipowa

Institute of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, DE

Animal type I cryptochromes from migrating and non-migrating species. Are they alike and can they function as photomagnetoreceptors?

Dr. Roger-Jan Kutta

Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Regensburg, DE

Two examples of Photoreception in Nature &
Magnetic field on flavin based photo-catalytic oxidations with implications for photo-magnetoreception in vivo

Mon, 27 May 2024, 3pm -- SupraFAB, FUB, Altensteinstr. 23a, 14195 Berlin [abstract]

Prof. Hiroshi Ishikita

Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, JP

Light-induced electron transfer and proton transfer in photosystem II

Mon, 17 June 2024, 3pm -- SupraFAB, FUB, Altensteinstr. 23a, 14195 Berlin [abstracts]

Prof. Irene Coin

Biochemistry and Protein Chemistry, Leipzig University, DE

Genetic code expansion for structural and dynamic studies of membrane receptors in living cells

Prof. Benjamin Kaupp

Senior-Professor am LIMES-Institut der Universität Bonn & Clausius-Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, DE

Sperm chemotaxis – signaling at the physical limit

Winter semester 2023 / 24

Mon, 06 November 2023, 3pm  -- SupraFAB, FUB, Altensteinstr. 23a, 14195 Berlin [abstracts]

Prof. Tilman Kottke

Biophysical Chemistry and Diagnostics, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld University, DE

 

In-Cell Spectroscopy Reveals Mechanisms of Aureochrome and Cryptochrome Photoreceptors

Mon, 04 December 2023, 3pm -- SupraFAB, FUB, Altensteinstr. 23a, 14195 Berlin 

Prof. Minhaeng Cho

Department of Chemistry, Korea University, KR


Time-resolved IR spectroscopic study of water structure and dynamics in biological systems

Prof. Igor Schapiro

Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Shedding light on isomerization in phytochrome: Insights from computational investigations                                                         

Mon, 18 December 2023, 3pm -- SupraFAB, FUB, Altensteinstr. 23a, 14195 Berlin

Prof. Paula Booth

Department of Chemistry, King's College London, UK                


Co-translational folding of membrane proteins

Mon, 29 January 2024, 3pm -- SupraFAB, FUB, Altensteinstr. 23a, 14195 Berlin [abstracts]

Dr. Lena Bögeholz

Department of Physical Biohemistry,  Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, DE

 

Cotranslational folding and insertion of bacterial membrane proteins

Mon, 26 February 2024, 3pm -- SupraFAB, FUB, Altensteinstr. 23a, 14195 Berlin

Dr. Florian Brünig

Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, DE

 

Non-Markovian Dynamics and Vibrational Spectroscopy of Hydrated Protons and Water

Summer semester 2023

Please find the abstracts and speakers for the summer 2023 colloquium series here.

Winter semester 2022 / 23

Mon, 31 October 2022, 3pm and 5pm -- Hörsaal B, FUB, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin [abstracts]

Prof. Sebastian Westenhoff

Department of Chemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, SE

 

Photoactivation of bacterial phytochromes studied by time-resolved crystallography and spectroscopy

Prof. Denis Rousseau

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA

*Online only*

Structures of bovine cytochrome c oxidase intermediates

 
Mon, 28 November 2022, 3pm and 4.30pm -- Hörsaal B, FUB, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin [abstracts]

Dr. Patricia Saura

Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Stockholm, SE


Molecular principles of water-gated proton transfer reactions in cytochrome c oxidase

Prof. Boris Musset

Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität, Nürnberg, DE


The voltage-gated proton channel (HV) discovers its family, and a detailed investigation of pH-dependent gating.

 
Mon, 16 January 2023, 3pm and 4.30pm --  Hörsaal B, FUB, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin [abstracts

Prof. Petra Hellwig

Laboratoire de Bioélectrochimie et Spectroscopie, University of Strasbourg, FRA


The reaction of membrane proteins from bacterial respiratory chains studied by IR spectroscopies and electrochemical approaches.

Prof. Helmut Grubmüller

MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, DE

 

Microtubules’ bends, cryo-cool ribosomes, and wet proteins

 
Mon, 27 February 2023, 3.15pm and 4.30pm -- SupraFAB, Altensteinstraße 23a, 14195 Berlin, Room 201
[abstracts]

Dr. Chen Song

Institut für Analytische Chemie, Universität Leipzig, DE


Solid-state NMR on trehalose-embedded phytochromes

Prof. Indra Schröder

Institut für Physiologie II, Universitätsklinikum Jena, DE

 

Investigating the principles of gating in the model system of minimal viral potassium channels

Summer semester 2022

Mon, 16 May 2022, 14:00 -- Hörsaal B, FUB, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin [abstract]

Prof. Wiliam A. Eaton

Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Screening the Calibr-Scripps ReFrame library to discover new drugs for treating sickle cell disease
 
Mon, 30 May 2022, 15:30 -- Hörsaal B, FUB, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin [abstract]

Prof. Juan J. Nogueira

Department of Chemistry, University of Madrid, Spain

Modelling Membrane Transport and Protein Binding
 
Mon, 13 June 2022, 14:00 -- Seminarraum B1.16, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin [abstract]

Dr. Loren Andreas

RG Solid-state NMR, MPI Multidisciplinary Sciences Göttingen, Germany

Hydrogen bonding geometry and drug binding kinetics in the Influenza A M2 proton channel
 
Mon, 20 June 2022, 17:00 -- via Webex [abstract]

Prof. Stephen Brohawn

New York Stem Cell Foundation - Robertson Investigator; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology & HWNI University of California, Berkeley, US

Mechanisms of Sensory Transduction by Ion Channels
 
Thu, 23 June 2022, 16:15  -- Hörsaal A, FUB, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin [abstract]

Prof. Ioan Andricioaei

Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, US

Computer Simulations of the Interaction of Ions, DNA and Dendrimers with Protein Pores: Examples and Theoretical Models
 
Mon, 27 June 2022, 17:00 -- via Webex [abstract]

Prof. Steven Boxer

Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, US

Pre-organization & Evolution of Enzyme Active Sites using the Vibrational Stark Effect
 
Mon, 11 July 2022, 16:15 -- Hörsaal B, FUB, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin [abstract]

Prof. Jens Bredenbeck

Institute of Biophysics, University of Frankfurt, Germany

Non-Canonical Amino Acids and Other Probes 
for Advanced Time Resolved Spectroscopies of Proteins


Winter semester 2021 / 22

Mon, 25th October 2021, 16:00 -- via Webex [abstract]
Prof. Thomas E. DeCoursey
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Proton Selective Conduction Through hHV1, the Human Voltage-gated Proton Channel
 
Mon, 1st November 2021, 15:15 -- Hörsaal B (0.1.01) [abstract]
Prof. Ville Kaila (Mercator Fellow)
University of Stockholm, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Sweden
Exploring the Molecular Principles of Protonation Dynamics in Biological Energy Conversion
 

Mon, 8th November 2021, 15:15 -- Hörsaal B (0.1.01) [abstract]

Prof. Snezana Zaric
University Belgrad, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Serbia

Noncovalent Interactions using Crystal Structure Data and Quantum Chemical Calculations

 
Mon, 22nd November 2021, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]

Prof. Peter Pohl

Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

Water and protons in narrow membrane channels


 
Mon, 10th January 2022, 17:00 -- via Webex [abstract]
Prof. John Clark Lagarias
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, USA

Far-red light perception by the phytochrome superfamily

 
Mon, 24th January 2022, 13:00 -- via Webex [abstract]

Prof. Hideaki Kato
Department of Life Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Structural basis for channel conduction in the pump-like channelrhodopsin ChRmine

Summer Semester 2021

Mon, 12 April 2021, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]
Prof. Christoph von Ballmoos
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Bern, CH
The problem of orientation during membrane protein reconstitution
 
Mon, 26 April 2021, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]

CANCELLED! New Date: 31 May 2021

Prof. John Kennis
LaserLaB Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL


The molecular pH-response mechanism of the plant light-stress sensor PsbS

 
Mon, 10 May 2021, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]
Prof. Mei Hong
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Structure & Dynamics of Viral Proton and Cation Channels – Influenza M2 and SARS-CoV-2 E

 
Mon, 25 May 2021, 17:00 -- via Webex [abstract]
Dr. Junko Yano
Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Capturing Reaction Intermediates of the Water Oxidation Reaction in Photosystem II
 
Mon, 14 June 2021, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]
Prof. John Kennis
LaserLaB Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
The molecular pH-response mechanism of the plant light-stress sensor PsbS
 
Mon, 14 June 2021, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]
Dr. Lisandro Otero
Leloir Institute Foundation,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Long-range signaling mechanism of Xanthomonas campestris bacteriophytochrome: a dance under red light
 
Mon, 21 June 2021, 15:30 -- via Webex [abstract NA]
Prof. Lucie Delemotte
Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE
Molecular insights into the energetic basis of HCN channel activation and gating
 
Mon, 28 June 2021, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]
Dr. Jacek Kozuch
Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin
The Interplay of Electrostatics and Chemical Positioning in the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance in TEM beta-Lactamases


Winter semester 2020/21

Colloquia

Mon, 26 Oct 2020, 16:00 -- via Webex [abstract]
Dr. Jan Schuller
Emmy Noether Group
SYNMIKRO Research Center
Universität Marburg
Structural snapshots of the dynamic photosynthetic machinery
 
Mon, 11 Nov 2020, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]
Prof. Carolin König
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Tailored multi-level vibrational theory 
- A computational magnifying glass for marker bands in vibrational spectra -
 
Mon, 16 Nov 2020, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]
Dr. Olivia Judson
Imperial College, London

Dance of Rock and Life: Energy, Evolution, and the Transformation of the Earth

 
Mon, 30 Nov 2020, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]
Prof. Peter J. Walla
MPI for Biophysical Chemistry /
TU Braunschweig
Ultrafast and Multiphoton Spectroscopy for Molecules, Biology and Artifical Light-Harvesting
 
Mon, 14 Dec 2020, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]
Prof. Janne Ihalainen

Nanoscience Center, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Photoactivation studies of bacteriophytochromes – details from its early and late reactions

 
Mon, 14 Dec 2020, 16:30 -- via Webex (see Ihalainen for abstract)
Prof. Kevin H. Gardner
Structural Biology Initiative,
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, USA
Exploring biomolecular dynamics in ligand-regulated protein/protein interactions: Understanding how Nature’s switches work
 
Mon, 11 Jan 2021, 16:00 -- via Webex [abstract]
Dr. Emina Stojkovic,
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, USA
T Structural Basis for Light Control of Cell Development: New Insights from Bacterial Phytochrome Proteins
Mon, 25 Jan 2021, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]

Prof. Isaiah (Shy) Arkin
Department of Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Viral ion channels: from attractive biophysical models to drug targets

 
Mon, 08 Feb 2021, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]
Dr. Dimitrios A. Pantazis
Max Planck Institute for Coal Research,
Mülheim an der Ruhr
Excited states of photosynthetic pigments from quantum chemical and multilevel approaches
 
Mon, 22 Nov 2021, 15:15 -- via Webex [abstract]
Prof. Tilman Kottke
Biophysical Chemistry and Photochemistry, Universität Bielefeld

Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy illuminates cryptochrome and phytochrome mechanisms


Winter semester 2019/20

Colloquia    

Mon, 21 Oct 2019, 15:15 -- HS 2, Invalidenstr. 42, 2nd floor (site map) Faculty of Life Sciences, Biology, HU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Cecilia Clementi,
Einstein Visiting Fellow @ FU Berlin
Rice University, USA
Learning molecular models from simulation and experimental data
 
Mon, 28 Oct 2019, 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Dr. Matthias Elgeti,
University of California Los Angeles, USA
Structural underpinnings of biased agonism in G protein coupled receptors
 
Mon, 25 Nov 2019, 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Volodymyr Korkhov,
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Structures of a membrane adenylyl cyclase-G protein complex reveal a novel mechanism of cAMP signaling pathway regulation
 
Mon, 9 Dec 2019 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Erik Schleicher,
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Photoactivation of Drosophila melanogaster cryptochrome: A sequence of electron and proton transfer reactions?!
 
Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Dr. Przemyslaw Nogly,
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Synergy between synchrotrons and free electron lasers in studying ion transport with serial crystallography
Dr. Dimitrios Fotiadis,
University of Bern, Switzerland
Proteorhodopsin: From structure to bionanotechnological applications
 
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Dr. Stefano Santabarbara
Istituto di Biofisica Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR (Milan, Italy)
Steps towards a general coarse-grained modelling description of excited state energy and electron transfer in Photosystem I
Dr. Johanna Baldus,
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Photocycle intermediates of microbial rhodopsins observed by cryo-tapping and DNP-NMR

  

Seminars

Wed, 23 Oct. 2019, 14:00 -- Seminar room 1.1.33 (AG Heberle), Physics Dept. FU Berlin
Dr. Tatiana Domratcheva,
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg

Computational insight in double-bond isomerization of ionic chromophores in photosensory proteins [-abstract-]

 
Tue, 19 Nov. 2019, 15:15 
Seminar Room 03.007, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (CCM - Mitte), Virchowweg 24 -- [program]
Dr. Jan Kern,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Watching enzymes at work: room temperature diffraction and spectroscopy studies utilizing femtosecond X-ray pulses

 

Summer semester 2019

Colloquia    

Mon, 29 April 2019, 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Henrike Müller-Werkmeister,
Universität Potsdam
Time resolved serial crystallography: Watching proteins in action
Prof. Michael Börsch,
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Fast subunit rotation in FoF1-ATP synthase by single-molecule FRET in an ABELtrap
 
Mon, 20 May 2019, 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Peter Hamm,
University of Zurich, Switzerland

A Nonequilibrium Approach to Allosteric Communication


Dr. Gregor Hagelüken,
Universität Bonn

Towards structure and function of sialic acid TRAP transporters involved in lipopolysaccharide sialylation of pathogenic bacteria

 
Mon, 17 June 2019 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Karin Busch,
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

pH Sensors in respiring mitochondria report different pH gradients

Dr. Dennis Nürnberg,
Freie Universität Berlin

Oxygenic photosynthesis at its energy limit: Membranes and proteins for growth in the infrared

 
Mon, 08 July 2019 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Claudia Steinem,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Proton translocation processes across lipid bilayers: How model membranes contribute to our current understanding

Dr. Sabine Oldemeyer,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Impact of the antenna pigment 8-HDF on red light-induced processes in the cryptochrome aCRY from C. reinhardtii

 

Seminars    

Mon, 03 June 2019, 14:15 -- Seminar room 1.1.33, Arnimallee 14 -- [host: Joachim Heberle]
Dr. Edoardo D’Imprima,
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics,
Structural Biology Department, Frankfurt am Main
Present and future challenges in electron cryo-microscopy
 
Wed, 10 July 2019, 14:15 -- Lecture Hall A, Physics Dept. FU Berlin, Arnimallee 14 -- [host: Joachim Heberle, Ana-Nicoleta Bondar]
Prof. Hai Lin,
University of Colorado Denver, USA
Tracking Proton Traveling through Titratable Amino Acid Side Chains in Adaptive QM/MM Simulations
Dr. Elena Lesca,
ETH Zürich, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
The dark structure of the Jumping Spider Rhodopsin-1

 

Mon, 02 September 2019, 11:00 -- Hörsaal A, Arnimallee 14 -- [host: Joachim Heberle] -- [abstract]

Prof. Gary Hastings
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Time resolved FTIR Difference Spectroscopy for the Study of Solar Energy Conversion Processes in Photosynthetic Protein Complexes



Winter semester 2018/19

Colloquia    

Mon, 15 Oct 2018, 16:30 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Johannes Messinger,
Uppsala Universy, Sweden
Studying biological water oxidation by room-temperature serial crystallography
Prof. Leonardo Guidoni,
University of L'Aquila, Italy
Ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations on water oxidation catalysis in biology and synthetic oxides
 
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Towards the first atomic movie of water oxidation in Photosystem II
 
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Jürgen Köhler,
Universität Bayreuth
Photophysics of molecular aggregates
Dr. Samantha Hardman,
University of Manchester, UK
Protonation dynamics and protein function
 
Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Massimo Olivucci,
University of Siena, Italy, and Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA
Recent progress in automatic rhodopsin modeling and its application to the search for fluorescent rhodopsins
Prof. Tobias Kampfrath,
Fritz-Haber-Institut & FU Berlin
Ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy: probing and controlling fundamental motions of electrons and molecules in condensed matter

Summer semester 2018

Colloquia    

Mon, 23 April 2018, 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Dr. Frank Bernhard,
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany
Folding of cell-free synthesized membrane proteins in defined lipid environments
 
Mon, 28 May 2018, 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Sandra Luber,
Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Advanced ab initio simulations for spectroscopy and artificial water splitting
Prof. Jasper van Thor,
Imperial College London, UK
Photosynthetic Exciton Dynamics and Charge Separation in Time and Space
 
Mon, 25 June 2018 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Martin Zanni,
University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
Cats but not rats? Hominids but not Hamsters? A study into the molecular mechanism of Type 2 diabetes using 2D IR spectroscopy
Prof. Bettina Keller,
FU Berlin
A pH-sensitive allosteric network modulates the Ca2+-affinity in C-type lectin receptor Langerin 
 

Seminars

Tue, 31 July 2018, 15:00 -- Room 1.2.28, Physics Dept. FU Berlin
Prof. Nick Oliver
Imperial College London
Polyhistidine-tag mutagenesis in cyanobacteria and Root Electrotropism in Arabidopsis thaliana



Winter semester 2017/18

Colloquia    

Mon, 27 Nov. 2017, 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Dr. Han Sun,
FMP Berlin
Dynamics of ion channel regulation and selectivity
 
Mon, 11 Dec. 2017, 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Dr. Renu Batra-Safferling,
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
LOV (Light-Oxygen-Voltage) proteins: Structures, Mechanism and Applications
 
Mon, 22 Jan. 2018 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Dr. Marc Nowaczyk,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Biogenesis and Adaptation of Cyanobacterial Photosystem II
 
Mon, 12 Feb. 2018 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Dr. Vitaly Sineshchekov,
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Structural and functional heterogeneity of phytochrome A

  

Seminars

Mon, 11 Dec. 2017, 10:15 -- Seminar Room (AG Heberle) 1.1.33, Physics Dept., FU Berlin  
Prof. Martin Hof,
J. Heyrovsky Institute
for Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Use of fluorescence spectroscopy in synthetic biology

Mon, 12 Feb. 2018, 16:00 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin 
Prof. Huan-Xiang Zhou,
University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Integrated computational and experimental studies on the structure and function of ion channels
Prof. Ioan Andricioaei,
University of California, Irvine, USA
Methods for the enhanced sampling of (i) long-time kinetics and (ii) large-scale dynamics of biomolecules

 

Summer semester 2017

Colloquia    

Mon, 24 April 2017, 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Horst Vogel,
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Ligand-gated ion channels: From 3D structure to transmembrane signaling [abstract]
Dr. Stephan Block,
FU Berlin
Quantification of proton pumping and weak, multivalent interactions using single-proteoliposome assays [abstract]
 
Mon, 29 May 2017 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Georg Nagel,
Universität Würzburg, Germany
Channelrhodopsin et al.: Microbial optogenetic actuators
Dr. Roger Jan Kutta,
Universität Regensburg, Germany
Key difference between type I and type II cryptochromes and implication for their role in magnetoreception [abstract]
 
Mon, 26 June 2017 15:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Matthias Rögner,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Engineering cyanobacterial photosynthesis for biotechnological applications: Design cells and model systems [abstract]
Dr. Chen Song,
Universität Leipzig, Germany
MAS NMR on GAF-domain photoreceptors with bilin chromophores

 

Seminars    

Tue, 25 April 2017, 11:00 -- Seminar room 003, first floor, Takustrasse 6 -- [host: Ernst-Walter Knapp]
Dr. Ariche Berkane,
Department of Chemistry, University of Saida, Algeria
Acidities of Cyclic Hydrocarbons and Nitrogen-containing Heterocycles in DMSO: a Theoretical Investigation
 
Tue, 30 May 2017, 14:15 -- Dahlem Center Seminar Room (1.4.08), Physics Department, FU Berlin -- [host: Petra Imhof]
Dr. Jan Götze,
Universität Potsdam, Germany
The photochemistry of the peridinin-chlorophyll a-protein using a new carotenoid model
 

 

Winter semester 2016/17

Mon, 10 Oct. 2016, 17:15 -- Lecture Hall PC 203, PC Building, TU Berlin (Str. des 17. Juni 135, Berlin-Charlottenburg)
Dr. Hernán R. Bonomi,
Fundación Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Structure and function of a bacterial phytochrome involved in virulence [abstract]
  
Workshop on IR Spectroscopy of Peptides and Proteins
Wed, 19 Oct. 2016, 10:00 - ca. 16:00 -- Library Room PC 305, PC Building, TU Berlin (Str. des 17. Juni 135, Berlin-Charlottenburg) -- [full program]
Prof. Timothy A. Keiderling,
University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Calculation of amide modes
Dr. Jacek Kozuch / Prof. Maria Andrea Mroginski, TU Berlin Peptide-membrane interactions – a theoretical approach
Dr. Marius Horch, TU Berlin Side chain modes
Prof. Karin Hauser,
University of Konstanz, Germany
Protein dynamics and amide band changes
Dr. Francisco Velazquez Escobar, TU Berlin Secondary structure changes in phytochromes
Prof. Maria Andrea Mroginski /
Dr. Tillmann Utesch, TU Berlin
MD approaches towards secondary structure changes
Jan Daldrop, FU Berlin Theoretical approach towards the IR continuous bands of hydrogen-bonded water
 
Thu, 17 Nov. 2016 17:15 -- Room 1.1.16, Physics Dept., FU Berlin
Dr. Angela Falciatore,
CNRS-UMR 7238, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Light sensing in marine diatoms
 
Mon, 12 Dec. 2016 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Aba Losi,
University of Parma, Italy
Novel photosensors for visible light: from biological functions to biophysical applications
Prof. Lars-Oliver Essen,
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Light-driven electron (and proton) transfer by cryptochromes and photolyases: common structures, common mechanisms?
 
Mon, 13 Feb. 2017 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept. FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Marc Brecht,
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
Tuning the optical properties of Photosystem I with subwavelength microcavities and plasmonic nanoparticles [abstract]
Dr. Erik T. J. Nibbering,
Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Berlin, Germany
Hydrogen bond and proton transfer dynamics: using IR and soft-x-ray local spectroscopic probes

 

Summer semester 2016

Colloquia

SFB colloquia generally take place during the lecture period on every first Monday of a month.

2 May 2016, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Bernd Ludwig,
Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Biogenesis of Metal Centers in Cytochrome c Oxidase
Prof. Rolf Diller,
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

Photoinduced processes of bilins in solution and as protein-bound cofactor

 
6 June 2016, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall A, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Dr. Christian Bamann,
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
Light-induced ion transport in microbial rhodopsins
Dr. Carmen Domene,
King's College London, UK
Computational approaches to the molecular thermometers of the human body
 
4 July 2016, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Werner Mäntele,
Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Spectroscopists do it with light: On the development of infrared sensors for medical diagnostics [abstract]
Prof. Adam Lange,
Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Berlin, Germany
Structures of bacterial molecular machines by solid-state NMR, EM, and other techniques

  

Seminars

Thu, 23 June 2016, 14:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin  

Dr. Igor Schapiro,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 

Theory and application of excited state molecular dynamics 

Wed, 6 July 2016, 10:15 -- Meeting Room No. 1.1.33, Physics Dept., FU Berlin 

Prof. Leonid Brown,
University of Guelph, Canada 

Understanding the mechanism of novel light-driven chloride pumps of cyanobacteria by infrared spectroscopy
Tue, 20 Sept. 2016, 14:15 -- Meeting Room No. 1.1.16, Physics Dept., FU Berlin
Prof. Michael Feig,
Michigan State University, USA

Dynamics of biological macromolecules in cellular environments

Dr. Yuji Sugita,
RIKEN, Wako, Japan

Role of proton countertransport in membrane transporting proteins

 

Winter semester 2015/16

Colloquia

SFB colloquia generally take place during the lecture period on every second Monday of a month.

Tuesday (!!) 13 Oct. 2015, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall A, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Keiichi Inoue,
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Photochemistry of sodium pump rhodopsin
Dr. Jyotishman Dasgupta,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Photoregulation of Photosynthetic Apparatus by Isomerization Chemistry of Conjugated Chromophores: Insights from Time-resolved Spectroscopy
 
9 Nov. 2015, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Marloes Groot,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
How does a protein achieve functionality?
and
Third harmonic generation imaging enables fast, label-free characterization of human brain tumors
[abstract]
Prof. Daniel Sebastiani,
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 
Ion mobility in complex hydrogen bond networks from combined ab-initio molecular dynamics and kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations
 
14 Dec. 2015, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. John Christie,
University of Glasgow, UK
What is LOV? From plant growth to optogenetics.
Dr. Tatiana Domratcheva,
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Computational studies of photoreceptor flavoprotein BLUF: From spectral assignments to understanding functional mechanisms
 
11 Jan. 2016, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Dr. Syma Khalid,
University of Southampton, UK
Capturing the Complexity of Bacterial Membrane-Protein Interactions by Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Dr. Nicholas Cox,
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mühlheim a.d.R., Germany
Spin state as a marker for the structural evolution of Nature’s water splitting catalyst

  

Seminars

Wed, 21 Oct. 2015, 10:15 -- Seminar Room PC 305, PC Building, TU Berlin (Str. des 17. Juni 135, Berlin-Charlottenburg) 

Prof. Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel,
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany 

A heme-based redox sensor in Methanosarcina acetivorans

Fri, 11 March, 2016, 15:30 -- Lecture Hall, Building 6, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - BCCN (Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin)

Prof. Keith Moffat,
University of Chicago, IL, USA

Femtosecond time-resolved crystallography of a signalling photoreceptor

Thu, 17 March, 2016, 16:00 -- Maud-Menten-Saal (no. 410-412), Leonor Michaelis Building (no. 18), Institute of Biology, HU Berlin (Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin)
Prof. Nathan Nelson,
Tel Aviv University, Israel

High-resolution structures of plant and cyanobacterial photosystem I - Implications for sustainable hydrogen production

 

Summer semester 2015

Colloquia

SFB colloquia generally take place during the lecture period on every first Monday of a month.

4 May 2015, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
PD Tilman Kottke,
Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Electron and proton transfer in cryptochrome photoreceptors [abstract]
Dr. Mounir Tarek,
CNRS-UMR 7565, Université de Lorraine, France
On the activation and modulation of voltage gated ion channels [abstract]
 
1 June 2015, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Jürgen Köhler,
Universität Bayreuth, Germany
Conformational Memory of Single Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes. A Precursor of Non-Photochemical Quenching? [abstract]
Dr. Gerhard Hummer,
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt a.M., Germany 
Water wires, water gates, and water locks
 
6 July 2015, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Philipp Kukura,
University of Oxford, UK

What happens after a molecule absorbs a photon [abstract]

Prof. Massimo Olivucci,
University of Siena, Italy, and Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA
Electronic progression during the photoisomerization of microbial and vertebrate light-sensing rhodopsins

  

Seminars

Wed, 8 Apr. 2015, 10:00 -- Room PC 305 (Library), PC Building, TU Berlin (Str. des 17. Juni 135, Berlin-Charlottenburg)

Dr. Hernán R. Bonomi,
Fundación Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Crystallization and X-ray characterization of the full-length bacteriophytochrome from the plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestris
Thu, 11 Juni 2015, 17:15 -- Seminar room on 3rd floor, Villa BEL, TU Berlin (Marchstr. 6-8, Berlin-Charlottenburg)

Prof. Delmar S. Larsen,
UC Davis, California, USA

Novel Photodynamics in Phytochrome & Cyanobacteriochrome Photosensory Proteins [abstract]

Mon, 22 June 2015, 10:00 -- Seminar room no. 323, Chemistry Dept., FU Berlin (Takustr. 6, Berlin-Dahlem)

Prof. Snezana Zaric,
Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Interactions of aromatic rings

Thu, 9 July 2015, 16:00 -- Seminar room no. 323, Chemistry Dept., FU Berlin (Takustr. 6, Berlin-Dahlem) 

Prof. Matthias Ullmann,
University of Bayreuth, Germany

Life is About Potentials

 

Winter semester 2014/15

Colloquia

SFB colloquia generally take place during the lecture period on every second Monday of a month.

10 Nov. 2014, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Thomas Happe,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Electron-proton coupling in the catalytic mechanism of hydrogenases
Prof. Klaus-Peter Hofmann,
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Precision and flexibility in G protein coupled receptor function
 
8 Dec. 2014, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall A, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Sebastian Westenhoff,
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Signal amplification and transduction in phytochrome photosensors disclosed by time-resolved X-ray scattering [abstract]
Prof. Johannes Neugebauer,
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany 
Beyond QM/MM: Quantum Chemical Methods for Spectroscopy, Energy-, and Electron-Transfer in Proteins
 
12 Jan. 2015, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Andreas Dreuw,
Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Proton-transfer steered mechanism of DNA damage repair by (6-4)-photolyases

Prof. Martina Havenith,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
New Insights into the Role of Water in Biological Function: Terahertz Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of the Solvation Dynamics of Biomolecules [abstract]
 
9 Feb. 2015, 16:30 -- Great Lecture Hall, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program] [news]
Prof. Menachem Gutman,
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Special Lecture on the Occasion of the Honorary Doctorate in Biophyscis for Prof. Wolfgang Junge
Prof. Ernst Bamberg,
Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Laudation to Prof. Wolfgang Junge for the Honorary Doctorate Awarded by the Physics Department of Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Wolfgang Junge,
Universität Osnabrück, Germany
Testimonial Lecture

 

Seminars

Fri, 14 Nov. 2014, 16:30 -- Meeting Room no. 1.1.33, Physics Dept., FU Berlin 

Dr. Marc Delarue,
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Structural studies of a bacterial pentameric proton-gated ion-channel
Mon, 17 Nov. 2014, 17:15 -- Room PC 203, PC Building, TU Berlin (Str. des 17. Juni 135, Berlin-Charlottenburg)
Prof. Mordechai (Mudi) Sheves,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 
The mechanism of light-induced retinal protein activation

 

Summer semester 2014

Colloquia

SFB colloquia generally take place during the lecture period on every first Monday of a month.

5 May 2014, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Biosynthesis and assembly of unusual phycobiliproteins
Prof. Peter Brzezinski,
Stockholm University, Sweden
Dynamics of proton transfer in respiratory oxidases
 
2 June 2014, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Alfred Holzwarth,
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (CEC),
Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany
Light-harvesting, antenna quenching, and ultrafast charge separation in reaction centers: A unified view
Dr. Stefan Kubick,
Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT), Potsdam, Germany
Eukaryotic Cell-free Systems: Novel Strategies for the Synthesis of Membrane Proteins [abstract]
 
30 June 2014, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Josef Wachtveitl,
Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Photoinitiated functional dynamics of retinal proteins
Prof. Claudio M. Soares,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal 
Redox enzymes for biotechnology: modelling (and other) studies of laccases and hydrogenases [abstract]
 
Wednesday (!!) 1 Oct. 2014, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall, Inst. of Computer Science, FU Berlin (Takustr. 9, Berlin-Dahlem) -- [program]
Prof. Robert G. Griffin,
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA

Magic Angle Spinning NMR Studies of Membrane Proteins: M218-60, VDAC, and bR

Prof. Wayne L. Hubbell,
University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA
Revealing protein conformational substrates and dynamics with site-directed spin labeling and high pressure EPR 

 

Seminars

Wed, 9 April 2014, 14:15 -- Fachbereichsraum (room no. 1.1.16), Physics Dept., FU Berlin

Dr. Cosmin Ionel Sicora,
Biological Research Center Jibou, Romania

Functional analysis of different psbA variants in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 

Wed, 16 April 2014, 11:15 -- Lecture Hall A, Physics Dept., FU Berlin

Prof. Elena Pohl, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria

Prof. Peter Pohl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

New insights in transport mechanism, structure and subcellular distribution of uncoupling proteins.

Proton migration along membranes.

Mon, 16 June 2014, 16:15 -- Seminar Room no. 1.1.33, Physics Dept., FU Berlin

Prof. Andrei Tokmakoff,
University of Chicago, USA

2D IR spectroscopy of protein structure and dynamics
Thu, 10 July 2014, 10:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin

Prof. Leonid S. Brown,
University of Guelph, Canada

Microbial Rhodopsins and Aquaporin - Spectroscopic Insights into the Inner Workings of Membrane Proteins [abstract
Mon, 25 Aug. 2014, 16:15 -- Lecture Hall A, Physics Dept., FU Berlin

Prof. Sin Urban,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

Signaling from inside the membrane: mechanism of rhomboid proteases [abstract]
Tue, 16 Sept. 2014, 17:15 -- Room PC 203, PC Building, TU Berlin (Str. des 17. Juni 135, Berlin-Charlottenburg)
Prof. Katrina Forest,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 
Structure Meets Function in a Knotted Photoreceptor 

 


Winter semester 2013/14

Colloquia

SFB colloquia take place during the lecture period on every third Monday of a month.

21 Oct. 2013, 14:30 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Bert de Groot,
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
Dynamics of permeation, inhibition and gating of ion and water channels
Prof. Lukas Tamm,
University of Virginia, 
Charlottesville, USA
Structure, Folding, and Function of β-Barrel Membrane Proteins
 
18 Nov. 2013, 14:30 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Stefan Weber,
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
New insights into nitrogenase and flavin-based photoreceptors from EPR
Prof. Matthias Ullmann,
University of Bayreuth, Germany
The Importance of Being Protonated: Considering the Right Protonation for Analyzing Enzymatic Reactions
 
16 Dec. 2013, 14:30 -- Lecture Hall A, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Karin Hauser,
University of Konstanz, Germany
Protein folding dynamics studied with IR-spectroscopy and residue-specific resolution
Prof. Juri Rappsilber,
TU Berlin, Germany
Protein conformation changes monitored by mass spectrometry
 
20 Jan. 2014, 14:30 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Marcus Elstner,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Classical Force Field and QM/MM simulations of retinal proteins

Prof. Don Lamb,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Germany
Pulsed Interleaved Excitation and Single Particle Tracking: Fluorescent Tools for Elucidating the Processes of Life

 

Seminars

Mon, 4 Nov. 2013, 14:30 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin

Prof. Matteo Levantino,
University of Palermo, Italy

Time-resolved X-ray scattering as a tool to probe the structural dynamics of proteins in solution

Fri, 22 Nov. 2013, 10:00 -- Meeting Room 1.1.33, Physics Dept., FU Berlin

Dr. Ana Patricia Gamiz-Hernandez,
University of Basel, Switzerland

Computation of redox potentials in proteins
Fri, 29 Nov. 2013, 10:00 -- Seminar Room T2 (room no. 1.4.03), Physics Dept., FU Berlin

Dr. Fraser MacMillan,
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Understanding movement and mechanism in molecular machines
Fri, 6 Dec. 2013, 14:00 -- Meeting Room AG Knapp, Chemistry Dept., FU Berlin (Fabeckstr. 36A, Berlin-Dahlem)

Dr. Roberta Petrella,
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Optimization Bias in Energy-Based Structure Prediction
Fri, 14 Feb. 2014, 14:00 -- Seminar room no. 328, Chemistry Dept., FU Berlin (Takustr. 6, Berlin-Dahlem)

Prof. Ville R.I. Kaila, Technical University Munich, Germany

Proton pumping in respiratory Complex I 
Thu, 13 March 2014, 14:00 -- Seminar room no. 328, Chemistry Dept., FU Berlin (Takustr. 6, Berlin-Dahlem) 
Prof. Joachim Schöberl,
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Fast finite element method to solve the Poisson equation 

 

Summer semester 2013

Colloquia

SFB colloquia take place once every month usually on a Monday afternoon.

15 April 2013, 14:30 -- Lecture Hall, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, FU Berlin -- [poster]
Prof. Johannes Messinger,
Umeå University, Sweden
On the possible role of structural dynamics in photosynthetic water oxidation
Dr. Felix Ho,
Uppsala University, Sweden
Investigation of a proton pathway in Photosystem II through parallel in vivo mutagenesis and in silico molecular dynamics studies
Prof. Leonardo Guidoni,
University of L'Aquila, Italy
Ab initio molecular dynamics in artificial and natural photosynthesis
  
13 May 2013, 14:30 -- Lecture Hall A, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [poster] [full program]
Prof. Klaus Gerwert,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Proton transfer via protein-bound water molecules in microbial rhodopsins
Prof. Mårten Wikström,
University of Helsinki, Finland
Proton translocation in cellular respiration
Prof. Per Siegbahn,
Stockholm University, Sweden
Proton transfer in photosystem II and cytochrome oxidase
Prof. Jon Hughes,
Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany
How does phytochrome work?
  
24 June 2013, 14:15 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin
Prof. Martin Kaupp,
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Quantum-Chemical Studies of Metalloenzyme Sites: From Spectroscopy to Mechanism
  
20 Sept. 2013, 14:30 -- Lecture Hall A, Physics Dept., FU Berlin -- [program]
Prof. Ute Hochgeschwender,
Duke University, Durham, USA
Bioluminescence Activation of Photoreceptors
Prof. Masahiko Ikeuchi,
University of Tokyo, Japan
Structure and Color Development Mechanism of Cyanobacteriochromes
Prof. J. Clark Lagarias,
University of California, Davis, USA
Color responses of an intrinsically protochromic in CBCRs

 

Seminars

Mon, 22 April 2013, 15:15 -- Seminar room E3, Physics Dept., FU Berlin 

Prof. Robert Burnap,
Oklahoma State University, USA

Genetic manipulation of amino acids in the second ligation sphere of the water-oxidizing Mn4Ca cluster of photosystem II

Mon, 17 June 2013, 14:30 and 16:00 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin  
Prof. Kalina Hristova,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Studies of protein interactions in membranes

Prof. Wolfgang Gärtner,
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim, Germany

Function of biological photoreceptors and potential biotechnological applications

Tue, 18 June 2013, 14:30 -- Seminar room E2, Physics Dept., FU Berlin

Prof. Vasilij Goltsev,
Sofia University, Bulgaria

Plant phenotyping by prompt and delayed chlorophyll fluorescence

Mon, 8 July 2013, 14:30 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin

Prof. Hemi Gutman,
Tel Aviv University, Israel

Can short molecular dynamics simulations be informative?

Fri, 9 Aug. 2013, 10:00 -- Seminar room no. 328, Inst. of Chemistry, FU Berlin

Dr. Ana Patricia Gamiz-Hernandez,
University of Basel, Switzerland

pH dependent redox potential in proteins: Rieske and Hydrogenase

Mon, 19 Aug. 2013, 14:30 -- Lecture Hall B, Physics Dept., FU Berlin
Prof. Minoru Sugihara,
Computional Biology Research Center, AIST, Tokyo, Japan
Dynamics of protein:protein interactions - bovine rhodopsin as a case study

 

Winter semester 2012

Mon, 25 Feb. 2013, 17:15 -- Fachbereichsraum, Physics Dept., FU Berlin
Hiroshi Ishikita, PhD,
Kyoto University, Japan

Proton transfer reactions mediated by hydrogen bonds in photosystem II

Thu, 21 March 2013, 15:15 -- Fachbereichsraum, Physics Dept., FU Berlin
Dr. Daniela Russo,
CNR-IOM, Grenoble, France

From reaction centres towards photosynthetic whole cells: Dynamics properties for biotechnological applications