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Gordon research conference on photosynthesis: from evolution of fundamental mechanisms to radical re-engineering

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We provide here a News Report on the 2014 Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, with the subtitle “From Evolution of Fundamental Mechanisms to Radical Re-Engineering.” It was held at Mount Snow Resort, West Dover, Vermont, during August 10–15, 2014. After the formal sessions ended, four young scientists (Ute Ambruster of USA; Han Bao of USA; Nicoletta Liguori of the Netherlands; and Anat Shperberg-Avni of Israel) were recognized for their research; they each received a book from one of us (G) in memory of Colin A. Wraight (1945–2014), a brilliant and admired scientist who had been very active in the bioenergetics field in general and in past Gordon Conferences in particular, having chaired the 1988 Gordon Conference on Photosynthesis. (See an article on Wraight by one of us (Govindjee) at http://www.life.illinois.edu/plantbio/Features/ColinWraight/ColinWraight.html.)

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Acknowledgments

We end this News Report by expressing our appreciation to all the attendees of the 2014 Conference for contributing to discussions on various aspects of photosynthesis and advancing the frontiers of science. We thank David Kramer for chairing the 2014 Conference. For the description of the Awardees, we are grateful to Ute Armbruster, Han Bao, Nicoletta Liguori and Anat Shperberg-Avni, who provided us information on their academic activities. We thank Gennady Ananyev for providing us several photographs, as well as the GRC for allowing us the use of the of the 2014 group photograph. Govindjee thanks Ineke Ravesloot (Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands) for mailing the books to USA, and David Kramer for bringing the books to the Conference site. We give special thanks to Atsuko Kanazawa for the exquisite way she took the microphone to different participants who were asking questions of the speakers. Govindjee is thankful to his grandson Rajiv Govindjee for his help in preparing the collage of some of the photographs shown here.

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (Inst. Biol. Phys. Chim.), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR 7141, 13 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005, Paris, France

    Fabrice Rappaport

  2. Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, 371 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3102, USA

    Alizée Malnoë

  3. Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, and Center of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 265 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Govindjee

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Rappaport, F., Malnoë, A. & Govindjee Gordon research conference on photosynthesis: from evolution of fundamental mechanisms to radical re-engineering. Photosynth Res 123, 213–223 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-014-0058-9

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