Program of Workshop Matsuyama 2017

Thursday, the 7th of December
 
9h30: Reception with coffee and tea
 
10h00-10h10: Introduction by Miwa Sugiura, Jian-Ren Shen and Alain Boussac
 
 
 
10h10-12h10: First session chaired by Miwa Sugiura
 
10h10-10h40 (25+5): Miwa Sugiura
New insights in PSII functions from the study of donor side and acceptor side mutants.
 
10h40-11h00 (15+5): Yuki Takegawa
Effects of the ligand modification of the ChlD1 on the Photosystem II photochemistry
 
11h00-11h20 (15+5): Itsuki Takachi
The binding of herbicides to the different Photosystem II variants.
 
11h20-11h40 (15+5): Makoto Nakamura
Structural modifications of Cytb559 and their effects on its redox properties
 
11h40-12h10 (25+5): Alain Boussac
The S2 to S3 transition: a key step in the oxygen evolving mechanism + Spectroscopic characterizations of Photosystem II mutants.
 
 
12h10-13h00: Lunch
[lunch boxes will be delivered close to the meeting room]
 
13h00-15h00: Second session chaired by Rainer Hienerwadel
 
13h00-13h30 (25+5): Lidia Zuccarello
Study of the Mn4-cluster in the water oxidation process in the very-far infrared domain + study of the different ferredoxins from T. elongatus and from other species.
 
13h30-14h00 (25+5): Tania Tibiletti
The low spin to high spin transition in the S2 state: a very-far infrared study at the Synchrotron Soleil + spectroscopic studies of the V185N mutant affecting the water oxidation process.
 
14h00-14h30 (25+5): Yuki Kato
FTIR spectroelectrochemical study on the redox potentials of the primary quinone QA and the secondary quinone QB in Photosystem II
 
14h30-15h00 (25+5): Takumi Noguchi
Infrared analysis of electron transfer and water oxidation reactions in Photosystem II
15h00-15h30: Coffee break
 
 
15h30-17h00: Third session chaired by Alain Boussac
 
15h30-16h00 (25+5): Hiroshi Isobe.
Geometric and Electronic Structures of the Mn4CaO5 in the Oxygen-Evolving Complex
 
16h00-16h30 (25+5): Rainer Hienerwadel
Spectro-Electrochemistry of hemoproteins with a His/Cys heme axial ligation.
 
16h30-17h00 (25+5): Catherine Berthomieu
Better understanding of the structure-properties relationship in engineering metal sites in proteins for the affine and selective binding of lanthanide and actinides.
 
 
17h00-17h45: General discussion
 
 
18h00: departure for dinner (Yamatoya hotel) including a traditional Noh theater presentation
 
[Due to our limited budget for the meeting a contribution of 2000 yens/person will be asked for the banquet]
 
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Friday, the 8th of December
 
8h30: Reception with coffee and tea
 
9h00-12h00: session chaired by Jian-Ren Shen 
 
9h00-9h30 (25+5): Yasufumi Umena
Mn-oxidation states in PSII
 
9h30-9h55 (20+5): Taiki Motomura
Structure and properties of soluble proteins, a hemo-protein Tll0287 expressed when D1 is PsbA2 and the minor ferredoxin Fd2
 
9h55-10h20 (20+5): Yoshiki Nakajima
Structure of a PSII SQDG-deletion mutant: functional implications
 
10h20-10h50 (25+5): Longjiang Yu
Structure of a RC-LH1 super-complex from a purple sulfur bacterium
 
10h50-11h10 (15+5): Jian-Ren Shen
Structures of PSII with herbicides bound
 
11h10-11h40 (20+10): Keisuke Kawakami
Bond distances in the intact Mn4CaO5-cluster of oxygen-evolving photosystem II based on coordinate error
 
 
11h30-13h30: Lunch
 
 
 
13h30-16h00: General discussions
 
-Analysis of the structure-function relationship of metalloproteins involved in photosynthesis.
-Mechanism of water oxidation.
- Structure-properties relationship of lanthanide and radionuclide binding sites in proteins for remediation.
-New projects to do in collaboration
-etc…
 
16h00 : End of the meeting