
Fred Kavli Auditorium, Tata Building, Revelle College, UC San Diego
9:00 am – Introduction
Melvin Okamura (UC San Diego, emeritus)
9:30 am – Bioenergetics
Overview by M arilyn Gunner (CUNY)
Richard Debus (UC Riverside)
From the bacterial reaction centers to O2 evolution in photosystem II
Peter Brzezinski (Stockholm)
Supramolecular interactions in the mitochondrial respiratory chain
Ana and Thomas Moore (ASU)
Proton-coupled electron transfer in artificial photosynthesis: One e– oxidation
coupled to multiple proton transfers in bioinspired H-bonded networks
11:30 am – Keynote lecture
Daniel Nocera (Harvard)
Proton-coupled electron transfer: From biology to global energy
1:30 pm – Structure
Overview by James Allen (ASU)
Petra Fromme (ASU)
Time-resolved femtosecond crystallography studies of light driven
photosynthetic systems with X-ray free electron lasers
Douglas Rees (Caltech)
Electrons, protons, and proteins from photosynthesis to nitrogen fixation
2:45 pm – Spectroscopy
Overview by Marco Flores (ASU)
Wolfgang Lubitz (MPI Mülheim/Ruhr, emeritus)
Water oxidation in photosynthesis: An enzyme that changed the world
David Britt (UC Davis)
Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of solar fuel enzymes and
catalysts
4:15 pm – Frontiers: Neurophysics and industrial biophysics
Overview by David Kleinfeld (UC San Diego)
Michael Graige (Illumina)
Developing technology to explore the genome