| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Artificial Light Harvesting |
| Discussion Leader: Charusheela Ramanan (VU University) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Dorthe Eisele (MIT)
"Robust Excitons Inhabit Soft Supra-Molecular Nanotubes"
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| 4:00 pm - 4:05 pm | Discussion |
| 4:05 pm - 4:20 pm | Charusheela Ramanan (VU University)
"The Role of Excitons in Mediating Energy Transfer in LHCII"
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| 4:20 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Photosystem Engineering |
| Discussion Leader: Katharina Brinkert (Imperial College) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Leslie Dutton (University of Pennsylvania)
"Engineering Manmade Photosystems In Vitro and In Vivo"
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| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Sarah Soltau (Argonne National Laboratory)
"Ferredoxin-Catalyst Complexes for Artificial Photosynthetic Hydrogen Production"
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| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Patrick Saboe (Pennsylvania State University)
"Two-Dimensional Protein Crystals for Solar Energy Conversion"
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| 8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Diana Cedeno (Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis)
"Using Molecular Design to Control the Performance of Hydrogen Producing Polymer-Modified Photocathodes"
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| 9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Katharina Brinkert (Imperial College London)
"(Spectro-)Electrochemical Investigations of Photosystem II and the Effect of Oxygen"
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| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Alternative Pathways |
| Discussion Leader: Orly Levitan (Rutgers University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Derek Loveley (University of Massachusetts)
"Artificial Photosynthesis: Wiring Acetogens to Solar-Powered Electrodes for Efficient Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Organic Commodities"
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| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | Daniel Canniffe (University of Sheffield)
"Engineered Biosynthesis of Bacteriochlorophyll B in Rhodobacter sphaeroides"
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| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Luca Bersanini (University of Turku)
"Dissecting the Photoprotective Mechanism Encoded by the flv4-2 Operon in Cyanobacteria"
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| 10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:35 am | Srividya Ganapathy (Leiden Institute)
"Spectral Modulation of Rhodopsin-Proton Pumps"
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| 10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 10:55 am | Orly Levitan (Rutgers University)
"The Intelligent Design of Algal Biofuels"
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| 10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Photoprotection |
| Discussion Leader: Nicoletta Liquori (VU University Amsterdam) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Anat Shperberg Avni (Weizmann Institute of Science)
"Electron Microscopy Study of State Transitions in Cyanobacteria"
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| 1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Discussion |
| 1:50 pm - 2:05 pm | Michal Gwizdala (VU University Amsterdam)
"Switching Fluorescence of a Single Phycobilisome Off and On - New Mechanistic Details of the OCP-Induced Photoprotective Mechanism"
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| 2:05 pm - 2:10 pm | Discussion |
| 2:10 pm - 2:25 pm | Nicoletta Liquori (VU University Amsterdam)
"The C-Terminus of LHCSR Drives a Peculiar pH-Dependent Quenching Which is Absent in All Related PSII Antennae"
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| 2:25 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
