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International conference on “Photosynthesis Research for Sustainability-2016”

In honor of Nathan Nelson and Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu

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During June 19–26, 2016, an international conference (http://photosynthesis2016.cellreg.org/) on “Photosynthesis Research for Sustainability-2016” was held in honor of Nathan Nelson and Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu at the Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, formerly Institute of Photosynthesis, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Pushchino, Russia. Further, this conference celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Institute. We provide here a brief introduction and key contributions of the two honored scientists, and then information on the conference, on the speakers, and the program. A special feature of this conference was the awards given to several young investigators, who are recognized in this Report. Several photographs are included to show the excellent ambience at this conference. We invite the readers to the next conference on “Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability-2017”, which will honor A.S. Raghavendra (of University of Hyderabad), William Cramer (of Purdue University) and Govindjee (of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); it will be held during the Fall of 2017 (from October 30 to November 4), at the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. See <https://prs.science>.

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Acknowledgments

We express our appreciation to all the attendees for valuable discussions and interactions on various aspects of photosynthesis at the 2016 conference, presented here. We thank all the members of the International organizing committee for their help with the various sections, and the committees, mentioned in this report for the selection of the Awardees; further, we are grateful to all the chairpersons of the poster sessions for their help. We thank the International Society of Photosynthesis Research (ISPR), International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE), Agrisera-Antibodies for Plant Sciences, Russian Photobiological Society, and three Russian companies (“OOO Fitosila”, “Pushchinskie laboratorii”, and “Speclabproekt”) for their support. We are thankful to T. Nejat Veziroğu and Ineke Ravesloot (on behalf of Govindjee and Tom Sharkey) for mailing books to the conference for the awards given to the young scientists. We thank all the members of the local organizing committee for their wonderful work that led to a very smooth running of our conference. Our special thanks go to Dmitry A. Los for the creation and support for the conference web site, and to Toshiyuki Shinoda and Alexander Shitov for most of the photographs used here. We thank many attendees and friends for sending additional messages to the organizers of the conference (see electronic supplementary material). This Conference, as well as the preparation of this News Report, was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Grant #15-14-30007, AAT and SIA).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia, 142290

    Anatoly A. Tsygankov & Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev

  2. Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Street 35, Moscow, Russia, 127276

    Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev

  3. Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1-12, Moscow, Russia, 119991

    Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev

  4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Kagurazaka 1-3, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 162-8601, Japan

    Tatsuya Tomo

  5. PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan

    Tatsuya Tomo

  6. Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, and Center of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Govindjee

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This manuscript was read, edited, and approved for publication in Photosynthesis Research, on September 11, 2016, by Thomas D. Sharkey. The photographs in the paper were taken by Toshiyuki Shinoda (of Japan) and Alexander Shitov (of Russia) and were chosen by two of the authors (A. A. Tsygankov and T. Tomo).

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Appendices

Appendix 1: List of all speakers (in alphabetical order by last name)

There were 78 speakers and chairpersons. These included (in alphabetical order): Azat Abdullatypov; Seiji Akimoto; Suleyman Allakhverdiev; James Barber; Vinzenz Bayro-Kaiser; Natalie Belyaeva; Barry Bruce; Dmitry Cherepanov; Robert Corkery; William Cramer; Dmitry Dunikov; Leslie Dutton; Julian Eaton-Rye, Zinaida Eltsova; Arvi Freiberg, Thomas Friedrich; Henrich Frielinghaus; Gyozo Garab; Christopher Garvey; John Golbeck; Vasiliy Goltsev; Maksym Golub; Govindjee; Patrick Hallenbeck; Peter Hegemann; Yukako Hihara; Michael Hippler; Hiroshi Ishikita, Kentaru Ifuku; Hisashi Ito; Alexey Kazakov; Ilya Kovalenko; Marina Kozuleva; Alexander Krasnovsky (Jr); Olaf Kruse; Jianguo Liu; Eugene Lysenko; Eugene Maksimov; Mahir Mamedov; Mariko Miyachi; Norio Murata; Viktor Nadtochenko; Gergely Nagy; Jose A, Navarro; Rachel Nechushtai; Nathan Nelson; Konstantin Neverov; Daisuke Nii; Marc Nowaczyk; Jorg Pieper; Roman Pishchalnikov; Agepati S. Raghavendra; Alexander Ramenskiy; Andrey (Andrew) B. Rubin; Keisuke Saito; Avigdor Scherz; Franz-Josef Schmitt; Gadi Schuster; Alexey Semenov; Daisuke Seo; Vladimir Shuvalov; Evelina Slavcheva; Alexey Solovchenko; Kintake Sonoike; Rajagopal Subramanyam; Miwa Sugiura; Vladimir Sukhov; George Sytchev; Alexander Tikhonov; Arjun Tiwari; Tatsuya Tomo; Giuseppe Torzillo; Lyudmila Vasilieva; T. Nejat Veziroğu; Martin Winkler; Iftach Yacoby; Ada Yonath; Adam Zach; and Dmitry Zlenko.

Appendix 2: List of all poster presenters (in alphabetical order by last name)

Azat V. Abdullatypov; Mina Agatsuma; Durna Aliyeva; Tofig Allahverdiyev; Alexander Ashikhmin; Alexey Baikov; Alexander S. Belov; Oren Ben-Zvi; Dmitry Blinov; Maksim Bolshakov; Yulia V. Bolychevtseva; Valentina Brailko; Marián Brestič; Gennadiy Bulatkin; Nadezhda I. Chernova; Nina Djapic; Olga Dymova; Haviva Eilenberg; Kaichiro Endo; Bulat Fatkhullin; Tatyana Fedorchuk; Vladimir Fedorov; Zoya Fetisova; Thomas Friedrich; Richard L. Garcia; Anastasia Gavrisheva; Irina Gette; Sergey Golovastov; Vasilij N. Goltsev; Daniil Gvozdev; Lilit Hakobyan; Volker Hartmann; Irada Huseynova; Lyudmila Ignatova; Maria Ivanova; Dainius Jakubauskas; Hazem M. Kalaji; Andrey Khorobrykh; Anton Khristin; Mikhail Khristin; Sergei S. Khruschev; Aleksandra Khudyakova; Konstantin Klementiev; Alena Konôpková; Liliya Koshkarova; Tatyana Laurinavichene; Vladimir Lavrenov; Ilya Kovalenko; Marina Kozuleva; Pini Marcu; Sonal Mathur; Ayumi Matsuhashi; Georgy Milanovsky; Maria Morgunova; Sigal Y. Netzer-El; Vladimir Z. Paschenko; Anastasia Petrova; Ekaterina P. Petushkova; Marina Pikulenko; Jörg Pieper; Tatiana Plyusnina; Eva Pšidová; Andrei Razjivin; Margarita Rodionova; Ivan Romanov; Natalia Rudenko; Tatyana Savchenko; Boris Semin; Toshiyuki Shinoda; Alexander Solov’ev; Lyubov Surova; George Sytchev; Yoshifumi Ueno; Daria Vetoshkina; Tatiana Vlasova; Roman Voloshin; Andrey Yakovlev; Denis Yanykin; Milrad Yuval; Aleksey Zabelin; Victor Zaitchenko; Marek Živčák; Elena Zhurikova; Nikolay A. Zorin.

Appendix 3: List of titles of presentations of the young scientist awardees

Photosynthesis:

Kaichiro Endo, Koichi Kobayashi, and Hajime Wada. Roles of anionic lipids clarified with an SQDG-deficient mutant of Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1.

Marina Kozuleva. A new insight into mechanisms of oxygen photoreduction in the photosynthetic chain.

Pini Marcu and Iftach Yacoby. Characterization of the putative ferredoxin binding sites on photosystem I.

Sonal Mathur and Anjana Jajoo. Investigation of deleterious effects of chromium phytotoxicity on photosynthesis in wheat plant.

Gergely Nagy. Structure and dynamics of photosynthetic membranes as studied by neutron scattering.

Eva Pšidová, Jana Majerová, Srdjan Stojnić, Ľubica Ditmarová, Marek Ježík, Katarína Střelcová, and Dušan Gömöry. Physiological state of selected beech population during peak of growing season.

Margarita V. Rodionova, Mehmet S. Karacan, Turgay Tunc, Kubra Venedik, Serhat Mamas, Aleksandr Shitov, Nurcan Karacan, Sergey K. Zharmukhamedov, Vyacheslav V. Klimov, and Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev. New antimony(III) complexes as potent inhibitors of photosystem II, carbonic anhydrase, and glutathione reductase.

Lyubov Surova, Vladimir Vodeneev, and Vladimir Sukhov. Variation potential influences the resistance of photosynthetic machinery to the thermal stress in pea.

Yoshifumi Ueno, Shimpei Aikawa, Akihiko Kondo, and Seiji Akimoto. Excitation energy transfer processes among photosynthetic complexes in cyanobacterial cells.

Arjun Tiwari. Photosystem I in photochemical and non-photochemical quenching of excitation energy.

Hydrogen:

Azat V. Abdullatypov. Oxygen diffusion pathways through HydSL hydrogenase from Thiocapsa roseopersicina.

Vinzenz Bayro Kaiser. Temperature-sensitive PSII: toward a sustainable bioreactor for photosynthetic hydrogen production.

Oren Ben-Zvi and Iftach Yacoby. The in vitro enhancement of [FeFe] hydrogenase activity by [Fe] superoxide dismutase.

Zinaida Eltsova. Hydrogen production by Rhodobacter sphaeroides mutants without LHII complex.

Lilit Hakobyan, Lilit Gabrielyan, and Armen Trchounian. Advantages of mixed carbon fermentation in biological hydrogen production by Rhodobacter sphaeroides.

Volker Hartmann, Tobias Vöpel, Fangyuan Zhao, Felipe Conzuelo, Simon Ebbinghaus, Marc M. Nowaczyk, Nicolas Plumeré, Wolfgang Schuhmann, and Matthias Rögner. Optimization of a photosystem 1 and 2 based photovoltaic cell.

Victor Zaitchenko, Mikhail Ivanov, and Anna Smygalina. Detonation mitigation in hydrogen-fueled spark ignition engine by adding low-energetic components.

Milrad Yuval and Yacoby Iftach. Novel approaches to simultaneously combat the oxygen sensitivity of hydrogenase and its poor electron acceptance.

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Tsygankov, A.A., Allakhverdiev, S.I., Tomo, T. et al. International conference on “Photosynthesis Research for Sustainability-2016”. Photosynth Res 131, 227–236 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-016-0311-5

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