ESF-EMBO Symposium
MOLECULAR BIOENERGETICS OF CYANOBACTERIA: TOWARDS SYSTEMS BIOLOGY LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING
Invited Papers
Name | Affiliation | Lecture |
Iwona Adamska | University of Konstanz, DE | The family of Deg proteases in cyanobacteria |
Natalia Battchikova | University of Turku, FI | |
Egbert Boekema | University of Groningen, NL | Photosynthetic membrane supercomplexes studied by electron microscopy |
| Laurent Cournac | CEA Cadarache | Photosynthetic and respiratory gas exchange characteristics of Synechocystis PCC 6803 ndh(1-4) mutants |
William Cramer | Purdue University, US | |
Maria Fillat | University of Zaragosa, ES | Fur (ferric uptake regulator) proteins in cyanobacteria: new roles for a master regulator |
Enrique Flores | University of Seville, ES | Cell differentiation and multicellularity in cyanobacteria |
Karl Forchammer | Giessen University, DE | Towards global understanding of the nitrogen starvation response of Synechococcus elongates |
Martin Hagemann | Rostock University, DE | Pathways and function of cyanobacterial phosphoglycolate metabolism |
Wolfgang Hess | University of Freiburg, DE | Analyses of regulatory RNA in cyanobacteria for a systems biology level of understanding |
Hideo Iwasaki | Waseda University, JP | Systems analyses on cyanobacterial spatio-temporal pattern formations and responses to light-dark cycles |
Aaron Kaplan | Hebrew University, IL | |
Cheryl Kerfeld | University of California, US | Progress in elucidating the structural basis of carboxysome function |
Jan Kern | Technische Universtiät Berlin | Lipids, Quinones and Channels - current state of the structural model of cyanobacterial Photosystem II |
Diana Kirilovsky | CNRS, FR | The orange carotenoid protein, a new photoactive protein involved in photoprotection in cyanobacteria |
David Knaff | Texas Tech University, US | NMR studies of protein/protein interaction in the ferredoxin/thioredoxin systems of Synechocystis |
Joseph Komenda | Academy of Sciences, CZ | The role of small subunits in the biogenesis of cyanobacterial Photosystem II |
Peter Lindblad | Uppsala University, SE | Transcriptional regulation of the cyanobacterial bidirectional hydrogenase |
Hans Matthijs | University of Amsterdam, NL | The dynamics of bioenergetic processes in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803: conclusions from transcriptomes of intercepts between nitrogen or light limited cultures in chemostats |
| Klaus-Peter Michel | University of Bielefeld, DE | Transcript profiling reveals new insights into the acclimation of the mesophilic fresh-water cyanobacterium Sunechococcus elongates PCC 7942 and two Synechococcus mutant strains to iron starvation |
Conrad Mullineaux | Queen Mary University of London, UK | Intercellular molecular exchange in filamentous cyanobacteria |
| Ladislav Nedbal | Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology CAS, CZ | A photobioreactor for precision cultivation of cyanobacteria and for high-content analysis of suspension dynamics |
Peter Nixon | Imperial College London, UK | |
| Itzhak Ohad | Hewbrew University, IL | Light stress resistance of the dessication-tolerant Microcoleus sp. |
Himadri Pakrasi | Washington University, US | Systems approach to understanding molecular mechanisms of photosynthetic systems |
Matthias Rögner | Bochum University, DE | Basics of Photosytem II function and applications for biohydrogen production |
Rakefet Schwarz | Bar Ilan University, IL | |
| Enrico Schleiff | JWG University, DE | Beta-barrel proteins of Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, the beauty of outer membranes |
Kaarina Sivonen | University of Helsinki, FI | Genome of Anabaena 90 |
Karin Stensjö | Uppsala University | Proteome dynamics in Nostoc sp. PCC 7120 and Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133 |
Imre Vass | Biological Research Center, HU | The role of non-radiative charge recombination processes in the photodamage and photoprotection of PSII |
Wim Vermaas | Arizona State University, US | |
Annegret Wilde | Humboldt University, DE | The function of non-coding RNAs in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 |
Xudong Xu | Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN |
