Program Overview



Monday
2.4.12
Tuesday
3.4.12
Wednesday
4.4.12
Registration and
poster setup
9:00 h
Sunlight conversion

Electrical
Thermal and Photochemical
Biomass
Artificial Biosynthesis
8:30 h
Sunlight conversion

Artificial Biosynthesis
10:00 h
Light Controlled Biosystems

Blue Light Receptors
Channelrhodopsin/Optogenetics
13:25 h
Biological Photosynthetic Systems

Photosynthetic Systems - Overview
Structure and Function Analysis
19:00 h
Conference Dinner
18:40 h
Dinner
21:00 h
Evening Session
20:30 h
Social Event



Harvesting Light Program in Detail

Monday

10:00 Registration

12:00

Lunch

13:25

N. Hampp
Welcome and opening
13:30 E. Dreisigacker
About the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
 
Biological Photosynthetic Systems
Reviews on Photosynthetic Systems
13:45 W. Kühlbrandt
Molecular Mechanisms of Light Harvesting in Green Plants
14:20 N. Nelson
Structure and Function of Viral, Cyanobacterial and Plant Photosystem I

14:55

Coffee Break

15:15

D. Oesterhelt
Harvesting light by the Second Photosynthetic System: Bacteriorhodopsin
15:50 M. Engelhard
tba

16:25

Coffee Break
 
Biological Photosynthetic Systems
Structure and Function Analysis
16:45 L.-O. Essen
Light Harvesting by DNA Photolyases: The Quest for the Right Antenna
17:20 R. van Grondelle
Lessons from Nature for Light Harvesting
17:55 M. Motzkus
Analysis and Control of Ultrafast Energy Flow in Polyenic Biochromophores

18:30

Break

19:00

Conference Dinner/Social Evening
 
Technical Applications of Sunlight Conversion
Photoelectrical
21:00 K. Leo
Organic solid state photovoltaics

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Tuesday

08:00 Breakfast
 
Technical Applications of Sunlight Conversion
Photoelectrical
09:00 G. Willeke
Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics: State of Industrial Realization and Future Perspectives
09:35 M. Grätzel
Optimized photon harvesting and charge carrier collection in mesoscopic solar energy conversion systems
10:10 A. C. Hübler
Printed Paper Photovoltaics - A New Technology

10:45

Coffee Break
 
Technical Applications of Sunlight Conversion
Photothermal and Photochemical
11:05 K.-H. Funken
Industrial Applications of Solar Radiation
11:40 T. Bach
Chirality and Light: Enantioselective Photochemical Reactions in Solution

12:15

Lunch

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Technical Applications of Sunlight Conversion
Biomass and Biofuel
13:35 G. Ghirlanda
De novo design of functional protein assemblies: towards hydrogen production
14:10 J. Ullmann
Tubular photobioreactors (PBR) for microalgae production - long term industrial operation of the world´s largest closed PBR in Klötze / FRG
14:45 L. Thomsen
Large scale production of microalgae

15:20

Coffee Break and Poster Session
 
Technical Applications of Sunlight Conversion
Artificial Biosynthesis
15:50 S. Reece
Low-cost renewable hydrogen from sunlight and water
16:25 M. Rögner
Metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria for the production of hydrogen from water

17:00

Break and Poster Session
 
Technical Technical Applications of Sunlight Conversion
Artificial Biosynthesis
17:30 J. Lupton
Light harvesting in single polymer chains and inorganic semiconductor nanostructures
18:05 S. Styring
Molecular science for solar fuels - recent results in natural and artificial photosynthesis

18:40

Dinner

20:30

Wine tasting

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Wednesday

07:30 Breakfast
 
Technical Applications of Sunlight Conversion
Artificial Biosynthesis
08:30 A. R. Holzwarth
Light-harvesting by supramolecular chlorin aggregates. From natural chlorosomes to artificial photosynthetic units
09:05 A. Kahnt
Low dimensional carbon allotropes as light harvester and reaction centers

09:40

Coffee Break
 
Light Controlled Biosystems
Blue Light Photoreceptors
10:00 W. Gärtner
Blue light photoreceptors - their role for bacterial lifestyle and their potential for biotechnological applications
Light Controlled Biosystems
Channelrhodopsin & Optogenetics
10:35 E. Bamberg
Light-gated ion channels and pumps as optogenetic tools in neuro- and cell-biology
11:10 P. Hegemann
Novel channelrhodopsin-based optogenetic approaches

11:45

Conference Photo

11:50

Lunch

13:30

End of Seminar

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