Research Area A: Electron-driven protonation dynamics – redox proteins

A1	Electron-driven protonation dynamics in cytochrome c oxidase	Prof. Dr. Joachim Heberle (FU), Prof. Dr. Inez Weidinger (TU)
A2	Surface protonation and conformational dynamics in cytochrome c oxidase and photoreceptors	Prof. Dr. Ulrike Alexiev (FU)
A4	Tracking protonation dynamics in photosynthetic water oxidation in wild-type and mutated photosystem II	Prof. Dr. Holger Dau (FU)
A5	Structural basis of proton release from the water-oxidizing complex in cyanobacterial photosystem II	Prof. Dr. Athina Zouni (HU), Prof. Dr. Holger Dobbek (HU)
A6	Proton turnover rates of single heme copper oxidases operating against electrochemical gradients	Dr. Stephan Block (FUB)

 

Research Area B: Chromophore-driven protonation dynamics - photoreceptors

B1	Proton exchange processes in phytochromes and retinal proteins investigated by MAS NMR	Prof. Dr. Hartmut Oschkinat (FMP)
B2	Gating and ion transport dynamics in channelrhodopsins and light-driven pumps	Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann (HU)
B3	Identification of proton and hydrogen bond dynamics in channelrhodopsin and related systems	Prof. Dr. Joachim Heberle (FU)
B4	Hydrogen bonding network in channel- and other rhodopsins and phytochromes analyzed by site-directed mutagenesis and labeling	Dr. Ramona Schlesinger (FU)
B5	Spectroscopic investigations of proton transfer processes and hydrogen bonded networks in channelrhodopsins and phytochromes	Prof. Dr. Franz Bartl (Charité)
B6	Proton-coupled conformational changes in photoreceptors	Prof. Dr. Peter Hildebrandt (TU), Dr. Patrick Scheerer (Charité)
B7	Ultrafast dynamics and structural studies of prokaryotic and plant phytochromes	Prof. Dr. Karsten Heyne (FU) Prof. Dr. Jon Hughes (JLU)
B9 (N)	Dissecting the mechanism of proton and cation conductance in viroporins using vibrational spectroscopy	Dr. Jacek Kozuch (FU)
B10 (N)	Atomic structure and conduction mechanism of viral proton channels in liposomes studied by solid-state NMR	Prof. Dr. Adam Lange (FMP)

 

Research Area C: The bridge toward fundamental processes - theory

C1	Large-scale and small-scale diffusive and dielectric aspects of proton motion	Prof. Dr. Roland Netz (FU)
C2	Understanding proton transfer in phytochrome and cytochrome c oxidase	Prof. Dr. Maria Andrea Mroginski (TU)
C6 (N)	Protonation depending photochemistry in rhodopsin and phytochrome photoreceptors	Prof. Dr. Igor Schapiro (HUJI)
C7 (N)	Structural bases of proton dynamics in viroporins by multiscale modelling and simulation	Prof. Dr. Cecilia Clementi (FU)
C8 (N)	Proton permeation pathway and ion selectivity of viroporins investigated by atomistic molecular dynamics simulations	Dr. Han Sun (FMP)