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Photochemistry
July 5-10, 2009
Bryant University
Smithfield, RI
Chairs:
Michael R. Wasielewski & Bruce A. Armitage

Vice Chairs:
Cornelia Bohne & Gerald J. Meyer

The impact of photochemistry on diverse fields ranging from materials and environmental science to biology and medicine has never been greater. The 2009 Gordon Conference on Photochemistry will highlight recent advances in these key areas while also presenting the latest research on new photochemical reactions and mechanistic studies. Session topics will include: development of new chromophores, light harvesting materials, solar energy conversion, photocontrolled biomolecules, light-triggered amplification reactions, and advanced bioimaging techniques. The Conference will continue its 45 year history of promoting interactions between fundamental and applied scientists, a hallmark of the Gordon Conferences. In addition, oral presentations, poster sessions and informal discussions will provide opportunities for junior scientists and students to present their own work and discuss their results with leaders in the field. Applicants to the Conference are encouraged to submit abstracts for poster presentations in order to gain visibility and feedback on their research. In addition, a number of poster abstracts will be selected for presentation as short talks. The conference chairs (Michael Wasielewski, m-wasielewski@northwestern.edu and Bruce Armitage, army@cmu.edu) can be contacted with questions relating to the program and poster sessions and look forward to an engaging and dynamic conference.

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION
Discussion Leader: Ana Moore (Arizona State University)
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm Leif Hammarström (Uppsala University)
"Controlling Electron Transfer for Artificial Photosynthesis"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:50 pmDevens Gust (Arizona State University)
"Photochromic Control of Photochemical Processes: From Photosynthesis to Molecule-Based Signal Transduction"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pmEmily Weiss (Northwestern University)
"The Surface Chemistry of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:30 amGroup Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm REACTIONS AND MECHANISMS (In Memory of N.C. Yang)
Discussion Leader: Anthony Trozzolo (University of Notre Dame)
9:00 am - 9:30 am Samir Farid (University of Rochester)
"Quantum Amplification via an Adiabatic Triplet Reaction"
9:30 am - 9:40 am Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am Andrei Kutateladze (University of Denver)
"Detection and Massive Photoamplification of Molecular Recognition Events"
10:10 am - 10:20 am Discussion
10:20 am - 10: 40 am Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:10 amIgor Alabugin (Florida State University)
"The Many Faces of Alkyne Photochemistry"
11:10 am - 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am - 11:50 am Willie Leigh (McMaster University)
"Group 14 Reactive Intermediates. Photochemical Methods for the Study of Silylenes, Germylenes and Stannylenes - the Heavy Cousins of Singlet Carbenes"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Deepak Shukla (Eastman Kodak Co.)
"Chain Amplification in Photoreactions of N-alkoxypyridinium Salts in the Presence of Bases"
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm SUPRAMOLECULAR PHOTOCHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Linda Shimizu (University of South Carolina)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm J. Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University)
"Light-Gated STOP-GO Molecular Shuttles and Shuttles"
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm Discussion
8:25 pm - 9:05 pmFrank Würthner (University of Würzburg)
"Dye Assemblies for Supramolecular Electronics and Photovoltaics"
9:05 pm - 9:20 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm BIOLOGICAL PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND IMAGING
Discussion Leader: Sarah Schmidtke (College of Wooster)
9:00 am - 9:30 am Linda Johnston (National Research Council - Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences)
"Fluorescence Imaging and Dynamics on the Nanoscale"
9:30 am - 9:40 am Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am Alexander Deiters (North Carolina State University)
"Photochemical Regulation of Gene Expression"
10:10 am - 10:20 am Discussion
10:20 am - 10: 40 am Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:10 am Bern Kohler (Ohio State University)
"UV Photoproduct Formation in Free and Nucleosomal DNA"
11:10 am - 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am - 11:50 am Dmitry Matyushov (Arizona State University)
"Energetics of Protein Charge Transfer and Bacterial Photosynthesis"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Cristian Strassert (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
"Photoactive Hybrid Nanomaterials For Targeting, Labeling And Killing Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria"
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm SINGLE MOLECULE PHOTOCHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Jason Kahn (University of Maryland)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Marcel Bruchez (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Photorobust and Regularly Blinking Fluorogen-Activating Peptides for Super-resolution Imaging"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm Johan Hofkens (KU Leuven)
"Performant Dyes for Demanding Microscopy Applications"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm Dongho Kim (Yonsei University)
"Excitation Energy Delocalization Processes of Various Porphyrin Arrays Probed by Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm SPECTROSCOPY AND DYNAMICS
Discussion Leader: Torsten Fiebig (Boston College)
9:00 am - 9:30 am David McCamant (University of Rochester)
"Ultrafast Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy of Charge Transfer Compounds"
9:30 am - 9:40 am Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am Lin Chen (Argonne National Laboratories)
"Structural Dynamics of Transition Metal Complexes for Solar Energy Conversion"
10:10 am - 10:20 am Discussion
10:20 am - 10: 40 am Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:10 am David Jonas (University of Colorado)
"Nonadiabatic Electronic Dynamics at Conical Funnels and in Quantum Dots"
11:10 am - 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am - 11:50 am Niels Damrauer (University of Colorado)
"Manipulating Electron Transfer Phenomena through Structure and Quantum Control"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Karen Mulfort (Argonne National Laboratory)
"Correlating ground and excited-state solution X-ray structures with ultrafast transient optical spectroscopy for cobaloxime-based H2 photocatalysts"
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm SPIN EFFECTS IN PHOTOCHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Tijana Rajh (Argonne National Laboratories)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Christiane Timmel (University of Oxford)
"A Bird’s Eye View of Molecular Compasses"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm David Shultz (North Carolina State University)
"A Lecture in Two Parts: I. Electronic Coupling in Donor-Acceptor Biradicals. II. Photo-switchable Valence Tautomers"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pmMalcolm Forbes (University of North Carolina)
"Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions: The Radicals Behind the Ru(bpy)3"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm MATERIALS PHOTOCHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Pavel Anzenbacher (Bowling Green State University)
9:00 am - 9:30 am Uwe Bunz (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Cruciform Fluorophores in Blue, Green and Yellow"
9:30 am - 9:40 am Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am Elizabeth Harbron (College of William and Mary)
"Photoswitchable Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles"
10:10 am - 10:20 am Discussion
10:20 am - 10: 40 am Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:10 amDirk Guldi (University Nürnberg-Erlangen)
"Carbon Nanostructures - Supramolecular Approach to Power Solar Energy Conversion"
11:10 am - 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am - 11:50 am Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (University of California at Santa Barbara)
"Organic Semiconducting Nanostructures for Solar Energy Conversion"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Jye-Shane Yang (National Taiwan University)
"Pentiptycene-Derived Oligo(p-phenyleneethynylene)s: Conformation, Chain-Length Effect, and Intrachain Energy transfer"
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness Meeting
(Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm FRONTIERS OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY
Discussion Leader: Francisco Raymo (University of Miami)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm Klaus Hahn (University of North Carolina)
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pmValentina Emiliani (University of Paris-Descartes)
"Good Shape Photolysis"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDeparture
 
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