PARENT SESSION

Symposium S3A Bacteriochlorophyll based antenna systems
Tuesday August 31st, 2004 10:20 AM-12:20 PM Room 511D
Chair: Neil Hunter
Co-Chair: Richard Cogdell

10:20 AM
() Chair's Introduction. (Abstract )

10:30 AM
(S3A-1) Excitation migration in purple bacterial and cyanobacterial photosynthesis. (Abstract 46)
Klaus Schulten1, Melih Sener*,1, 1 Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

11:00 AM
(S3A-2) Observation of the energy level structure of Light Harvesting complex 4 (LH4). (Abstract 47)
Ward de Ruijter*,1, Silke Oellerich1, 2, Jean-Manuel Segura1, 3, Anna Lawless4, Miroslav Papiz3, Thijs Aartsma1, 1 Leiden University, Department of Biophysics, Leiden, Netherlands2 Experimentalphysik IV, Universität Bayreuth, Germany3 ISIC-LCPPM, Faculté des Sciences de Base, EPFL, Switserland4 Department of Synchrotron Radiation, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, United Kingdom

11:20 AM
(S3A-3) Solution structures of the LH1 and polypeptides from Rhodospirillum rubrum. (Abstract 48)
Zheng-Yu Wang*,1, Kazutaka Gokan1, Masayuki Kobayashi1, Tsunenori Nozawa1, 1 Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Sendai, Japan

11:40 AM
(S3A-4) Self-organization of BChl c in chlorosomes studied by MAS NMR of aggregated Cd-chlorins. (Abstract 49)
Ido de Boer*,1, Joerg Matysik1, Shin-ich Sasaki2, Tomohiro Miyatake2, Shiki Yagai2, Hitoshi Tamiaki2, Alfred Holzwarth3, Huub de Groot1, 1 Biophysical Organic Chemistry, Leiden, the Netherlands2 Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Kusatsu, Japan3 Max-Planck-Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

12:00 PM
(S3A-5) Cryo-electron microscopy and x-ray scattering of chlorosomes from green sulfur bacteria: evidence for lamellar organization of bacteriochlorophyll aggregates. (Abstract 50)
Jakub Psencik*,1, Teemu Ikonen2, Pasi Laurinmäki3, Michael Merckel4, Sarah Butcher3, Ritva Serimaa2, Roman Tuma3, 1 Department of Chemical Physics and Optics, Prague 2, Czech Republic2 Division of X-ray Physics, Helsinki, Finland3 Institute of Biotechnology & Department of Biosciences, Helsinki, Finland4 Helsinki Bioenergetics Group, Helsinki, Finland


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