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International conference on “Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability-2023”: in honor of Robert Blankenship, Győző Garab, Michael Grätzel, Norman Hüner and Gunnar Öquist

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The 11th International Photosynthesis Conference on Hydrogen Energy Research and Sustainability 2023 was organized in honor of Robert Blankenship, Győző Garab, Michael Grätzel, Norman Hüner, and Gunnar Öquist, in Istanbul, Türkiye at Bahçeşehir University Future Campus from 03 to 09 July 2023. It was jointly supported by the International Society of Photosynthesis Research (ISPR) and the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE). In this article we provide brief details of the conference, its events, keynote speakers, and the scientific contribution of scientists honored at this conference. Further, we also describe the participation of young researchers, their talks, and their awards.

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Acknowledgements

We thank each of the honored awardees for helping us produce the description of their research. We thank Dr. Yücel Batu Salman, Dir. Girayhan Yilmaz and all staff members, as well as the staff and the many student volunteers for making the entire event a grand success. We thank the following sponsors: International Society of Photosynthesis Research (ISPR), International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE), WALZ, and PhytoAB. We recognize all the members of the International Organizing and Local Organizing and Program Committees for their hard work for this conference. SIA was supported within the state assignment of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (theme No. 122050400128-1).

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  1. Department of Plant Science, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500046, India

    Rajagopal Subramanyam

  2. Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8601, Japan

    Tatsuya Tomo

  3. Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand

    Julian J. Eaton-Rye

  4. Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Girayhan Yilmaz & Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev

  5. К.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya St. 35, Moscow, Russia, 127276

    Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev

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List of the titles of the presentations by young scientists who were selected for poster talks (arranged alphabetically, with the titles of their papers):

  • Avratanu Biswas (Hungary), “Modelling of energy transfer from phycobilisomes to PS I in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803”

  • Kinga Ilona Böde (Hungary), “Evidence for the role of isotropic lipid phase in the fusion of PS II membranes”

  • Sabit Mohammad Aslam (Hungary), “Differences in the heat susceptibility and involvement of NDH-2 in alternative electron transport in coral endosymbiont algae, Symbiodiniaceae”

  • Pavithra Ramachandran (India), “Photosynthetic efficiency and transcriptome analysis of Dunaliella salina under hyper saline: a retrograde signalling mechanism in the chloroplast”

  • Daria V Vilyanen (Russia), “New insight into inhibitory activity of dinitrophenol ether of iodonitrothymol and the functional properties of cytochrome b6f complex”

  • Elena V. Zadneprovskaya (Russia), “Biotechnological potential of the green microalgae Coelastrella sp. IPPAS H-626”

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Subramanyam, R., Tomo, T., Eaton-Rye, J.J. et al. International conference on “Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability-2023”: in honor of Robert Blankenship, Győző Garab, Michael Grätzel, Norman Hüner and Gunnar Öquist. Photosynth Res (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-024-01087-5

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