of the Collaborative Research Center Sfb-498

Protein-Cofactor Interactions in Biological Processes"

September 13–16, 2009

in Berlin

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Programm::

	Sunday, September 13, 2009
16:00 – 17:00	Arrival, Registration
17:00 – 17:10	Opening and Introductory Remarks by the Sfb-498 Chairman
17:10 – 17:55	Opening Lecture: Wolfgang Lubitz (MPI für Bioanorganische Chemie, Mülheim): Active sites of [FeFe] and [NiFe] hydrogenases: blueprints for catalytic model systems?
17:55 – 18:40	Bärbel Friedrich (C1/C9): A fine-tuned protein-cofactor interaction allows hydrogen catalysis in air
18:45 – 21:00	Buffet, Snacks – Restaurant Harnack-Haus

	Monday, September 14, 2009
9:00 – 9:45	Marc Rousset (BIP; CNRS Marseille): Improving oxygen tolerance of [NiFe] hydrogenases is possible
9:45 – 10:30	Michael Haumann (C6/C8): XAS on activation, inhibition and catalysis of hydrogenases
10:30 – 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:35	Alfred Holzwarth (MPI für Bioanorganische Chemie, Mülheim): Excited state quenching in light-harvesting complex II of photosystem II in vitro and in vivo
11:35 – 12:20	Eberhard Schlodder (A6/A7): Deciphering the spectral properties of the PSII reaction centre
12:20 – 12:50	Karsten Heyne (B11): Polarization resolved femtosecond spectroscopy: A new angle on structural information
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 15:15	Wolfram Saenger (A4/C7): Structure of the cyanobacterial photosystem II at 2.9 Å resolution with novel insights on the role of lipids, quinones, channels and chloride
15:15 – 15:45	Christian Teutloff (C5): EPR/ENDOR on the donor side of PSII
15:45 – 16:30	James Barber (Imperial College London): Photosystem II structure: from black box to atomic model
16:30 – 16:50	Coffee Break
16:50 – 17:35	Arieh Warshel ( University of Southern California ): Simulating proton transfer and electron transfer reactions biology
17:35 – 18:05	Gernot Kieseritzky (A5): Energetics of proton transfer in the EcCLC chloride-proton exchanger
18:05 – 20:00	Poster Viewing and Snacks

	Tuesday, September 15, 2009
9:00 – 9:45	ElizabethGetzoff ( The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla ): tba
9:45 – 10:30	Erik Schleicher (A2/B7): Radicals and radical pairs in blue light photoreceptors
10:30 – 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:35	Klaus Schulten ( University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign ): Cryptochrome: universal magnetic compass in animal navigation
11:35 – 12:20	Maria-Andrea Mroginski (B6/B9): Advances in the theoretical description of the resonance Raman spectra of phytochromes
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 14:45	Clark Lagarias ( University of California , Davis ): From near-UV to far-red: photochemical diversity of bilin-GAF photosensory proteins
14:45 – 15:15	Tilman Lamparter (B2): Photobiology of Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58
15:15 – 17:00	Coffee and Poster Viewing
17:00	Departure
18:00 – 21:00	Boat Trip and Conference Dinner

	Wednesday, September 16, 2009
9:00 – 9:45	Antonio Baptista ( Universidade Nova de Lisboa Oeiras ): Molecular dynamics simulations at constant reduction potential and pH: application to a cytochrome c 3
9:45 – 10:15	Inez Weidinger (A8): Electric field effects on the electron transfer dynamics of cytochrome c
10:15 – 11:00	Nediljko Budisa(MPI, Martinsried): Expressed protein modification in residue-specific and site-directed mode
11:00 – 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 – 11:50	Klaus-Peter Hofmann (B3): Signal transfer from receptor to G protein: Insights from spectroscopic and structural studies on rhodopsin
11:50 – 12:20	Peter Hegemann (B10): Photochemistry of channelrhodopsin
12:20 – 13:05	Wolfgang Buckel ( Philipps-Universität Marburg ): Cofactors of radical enzymes
	Closing of Symposium