Day 1 Program: 20 March 2018 (Tuesday) 08:00 am - 09:00 am Registration 09:00 am - 09:10am Welcome address by Kok Khoo Phua (Director, Institute of Advanced Studies) 09.10am - 09.20am Chair s address by James Barber FRS (Imperial College London) Chairman: Bertil Andersson (Nanyang Technological University) 09:20 am - 10:05 am John Walker FRS (Nobel Laureate, University of Cambridge) Channels in ATP synthase 10:05 am - 10:50 am Rudy Marcus (Nobel Laureate, Caltech) Theoretical analysis of complex systems and the roles of phenomenology and of computer based calculations in treating the experimental data 10:50 am - 11:20 am Group Photograph & Coffee Break 11:20 am - 11:50 am Marten Wikstrom (Helsinki University, Finland) Catalytic mechanism of the respiratory enzyme 11:50 am - 12.20 pm Peter Rich (University College London) Distinguishing proton pathways and dielectric well functions of the hydrophilic channels in mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidases: mutational and simulation studies 12.20 pm 12.50 pm Ville Kaila (Technical University of Munich) 12:50 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch Exploring molecular mechanisms of redox-driven proton pumping 1
Afternoon Session Chairman: James Barber FRS 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Per Siegbahn (Stockholm University) Quantum chemical studies of redox enzymes 02:30 pm - 03:00 pm Jian-Ren Shen (Okayama University) Mechanism of photosynthetic water oxidation based on the structural analyses of photosystem II 03:00 pm - 03:30 pm Coffee Break 03:30 pm - 04:00 pm Junko Yano (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Water Oxidation Reaction of Photosystem II Studied with Crystallography and X-r Spectroscopy 04:00 pm - 04:30 pm Victor Batista (Yale University) via Skype Studies of Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis 04:30 pm 05:00 pm Johannes Messinger (Umeå University) Photosynthetic water oxidation the substrate s view 06:00 pm 8:30 pm Dinner Banquet (By Invitation Only) Bridge Room @ Raffles Marina Ltd (10 Tuas West Drive) Bus will leave from Nanyang Executive Centre, Guest Wing Lobby to Raffles Marina Club at 5.30pm for Dinner Banquet. Please assemble at the Guest Wing Lobby by 5.20pm 2
Day 2 Program: 21 March 2018 (Wednesday) Chairman: Gary Brudvig (Yale University) 09:00 am - 09:30 am Holger Dau (Free University of Berlin) Light-driven formation of manganese oxide nanoparticles by photosystem II and possib evolutionary implications 09:30 am - 10:00 am David Britt (UC Davis) Pulse EPR Studies of Substrate and Substrate Analog Binding at the Oxygen Evolving Complex 10:00 am 10.30 am Theodor Agapie (Caltech) Systematic synthesis of models of the Oxygen Evolving Complex: Effects of structure on reactivity 10:30 am 11:00 am Coffee Break 11:00 am 11:30 am Antoni Llobet (ICIQ) Understanding the main factors that influence the performance of molecular water oxidati catalysts 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Licheng Sun (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Uncovering the Secret of O-O Bond Formation in Photosystem II - A New Proposal for Water Oxidation with a Complete Catalytic Cycle and Experimental Proofs 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Yu Guo (Liaoning Normal University) DFT investigations on the mechanisms in photosynthetic water splitting 12:30 pm - 01:00 pm Chunxi Zhang (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences) 01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch Artificial Mn4Ca- and Mn4Sr- Clusters Mimicking the Oxygen-Evolving Center in Photosystem II 3
Afternoon Session Chairman: David Britt (UC Davis) 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Gary Brudvig (Yale University) Substrate water binding and hydrogen-bonding networks in the Oxygen Evolving Complex 02:30 pm - 03:00 pm James Murray (Imperial College London) Protecting nitrogenase from oxygen, the yin and yang of microbiology 03:00 pm - 03:30 pm Hiroshi Ishikita (The University of Tokyo) Proton release, O2 evolution, water incorporation, and recovery of the water-oxidizing enzyme 03:30 pm 04:00 pm Coffee Break 04:00 pm - 04:30 pm Holger Dobbek (Humboldt University of Berlin) Small molecule activation at the [NiFe4S4OH]-cluster of CODH : a structural relative of the [Mn4Ca2+O5]-cluster 04:30 pm - 05:00 pm Alain Boussac (Imperial College London) The low spin - high spin equilibrium in the S2-state of the water oxidizing enzyme 05:00 pm 05:30 pm Alison Telfer (Imperial College London) Characterization of photosynthetic protein complexes from a chlorophyll f containing cyanobacterium, Chroococcidiopsis thermalis PCC 7203 07:00 pm 09:00pm BBQ Dinner at Campus Clubhouse (All are welcome) 4
Day 3 Program: 22 March 2018 (Thursday) Chairman: Leslie Dutton FRS (University of Pennsylvania) 09:00 am - 09:30 am Richard Debus (UC Riverside) Attempts to Identify a Possible Substrate Water Molecule in Photosystem II with FTIR Difference Spectroscopy* 09:30 am - 10:00 am Jasper van Thor (Imperial College London) Femtosecond Infrared Crystallography of Photosystem II core complexes: watching excit dynamics and charge separation in real space and time 10:00 am - 10:30 am James Durrant (Imperial College London) Spectroscopic studies of the kinetics of water oxidation on photocatalysts and electrocatalysts 10:30 am 11:00 am Coffee Break Chairman: Wolfgang Junge (University of Osnabrueck) 11:00 am - 11:30 am Leslie Dutton FRS (University of Pennsylvania) Reorganization energy engineering in photosynthesis: adopted or adapted? 11:30 am - 12:00 pm Lydia Wong (Nanyang Technological University) Towards Artificial Photosynthesis by Bulk and Interface Modifications of Semiconductors 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Zhichuan J. Xu (Nanyang Technological University) Oxygen Electrocatalysis on Transition Metal Spinel Oxides 5
12:30 pm - 01:00 pm Overview and Open Discussion (Chairman, Wolfgang Junge) 01:00 pm - 02:00 pm Lunch Afternoon Session Chairman: Bengt Norden (Chalmers University of Technology) (Session to Honour Professor Bertil Andersson) 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Peter Nixon (Imperial College London) Repair and the evolution of photosystem II 02:30 pm - 03:00 pm Eva-Mari Aro (University of Turku) Regulation of oxygen evolving photosynthesis 03:00 pm - 03:30 pm Imre Vass (Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Singlet oxygen mediated photodamage of Photosystem II 03:30 pm - 04:00 pm Coffee Break 04:00 pm - 04:30 pm James Barber FRS (Imperial College London) Hydrogen derived from water as a sustainable solar fuel: Learning from biology 04:30 pm 05:00 pm Christer Jansson (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Advancing Utilization of Photosynthesis for Biomass Production & Soil Carbon Storage 05:00 pm 05:30 pm Bertil Andersson (Nanyang Technological University) A journey from experimental science to scientific administration 05:30 pm - 05.40 pm Poster Prize Presentation 05:40 pm - 05.50 pm Closing Remarks 6
Day 4 Program: 23 March 2018 (Friday) Organized tour of Singapore 10:00 am 05:00 pm City Tour Bus will depart from Nanyang Executive Centre, Guest Wing Lobby at 10.00am Please assemble at Guest Wing Lobby by 9.50am 7