The Sixth Nordic Congress on Photosynthesis 

Umeå, 25 – 27/10,

Organized by Umeå Plant Science Centre

Place: KB3B1, KBC

Friday, Oct. 25

13.00	Registration
16.00	Opening remarks
16.30	Opening Lecture	Chairman: Per Gardeström
	Mark Stitt, Max-Planck-Institute für Moleculare Planzenphysiologie
	Metabolite profiling: Learning by doing in the unclear world of reality
17.15	Session 1: Antenna Systems	Chairman: Stefan Jansson
	Roberto Bassi, University of Verona
	Interaction Between Xanthophylls And Lhc Proteins
	Jan Dekker, Vrije Universitet, Amsterdam
	Dynamics Of Light Harvesting In Photosystem I
	D. Zigmantas, R. G. Hiller, V. Sundström and T. Polívka
	Carotenoid peridinin as a light-harvesting pigment: a unique energy transfer pathway
	Brian G. Taylor, Steven H. Schwartz, and Gordon R. Gray
	The role of lipid desaturation and temperature on the generation of non-photochemical quenching in Arabidopsis thaliana
19.15	Poster session/welcome buffet

Saturday, Oct. 26

09.00	Session 2: PS I and PS II	Chairman: Petter Gustafsson
	Egbert Boekema, University of Gröningen
	Characterization Of The Peripheral Antenna Of PSI And PSII By Electron Microscopy
	Poul Erik Jensen, KVL, Copenhagen
	The Role Of Minor Subunits In The Regulation Of Photosystem I
	Christiane Funk and Iwona Adamska
	Family of deg/htr proteases in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC : investigations toward their expression and function
	Stefan Jansson, Jenny Andersson, Ulrika Ganeteg, Carsten Külheim, Jon Ågren
	All antenna polypeptides are important for plant growth and fitness
10.40	Coffee
11.10	Session 3: Proteomics and Genomics	Chairman: Wolfgang Schröder
	Brian Haas, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
	Arabidopsis Genome Annotation At TIGR: Past, Present And Future
	Dario Leister, Max-Planck-Institute, Köln
	From Genes To Photosynthesis In Arabidopsis
	M. Hansson, I. Carlberg, T. Kieselbach, W. P. Schröder, A. Harms, M. R. Sussman, R. D. Vierstra, B. Andersson and A.V Vener
	Systematic characterization of thylakoid protein phosphorylation by mass spectrometry
	Maria Schubert, Ulrika A. Petersson, Brian J. Haas, Christiane Funk, Wolfgang P. Schröder and Thomas Kieselbach
	Proteome map of the chloroplast lumen of Arabidopsis thaliana
12.50	Lunch
14.00	Session 4: Ecophysiology	Chairman: Gunnar Öquist
	Norman Huner, University of Western Ontario
	Photostasis And Energy Sensing
	Uli Shurr, Forschungszentrum, Jülich
	The Secret Dynamics Of Plants - Spatio-Temporal Patterns Of Growth And Gain Of Function
	Olav Keerberg, Per Gardeström, Vaughan Hurry, Hiie Ivanova, Hille Keerberg, Peeter Talts and Tiit Pärnik
	Photosynthetic carbon metabolism in leaves of cold-shocked and cold-developed winter rye and Arabidopsis
	D.A. Campbell and J. Porankiewicz
	Community proteomics using global antibodies quantitating the platonic ideals of protein families
15.40	Coffee
16.10	Poster session
17.50	Session 5: Assembly and Biogenesis	Chairman: Christiane Funk
	Eva-Mari Aro, University of Turku
	Photosystem II: Biogenesis, Assembly And Turnover Of Protein Subunits
	Colin Robinson, Warwick University
	Pathways For The Insertion Of Thylakoid Membrane Proteins
	Anna Andersson, Said Eshaghi, Alexander V. Vener and Bertil Andersson
	The major peptidyl-prolyl isomerase activity in thylakoid lumen of plant chloroplast is determined by a novel soluble cyclophilin tlp20 and the membrane-interacting cyclophilin TLP40
	Bo Zheng, Adrian K. Clarke
	Characterisation of CLP proteins in Arabidopsis
20.00	Dinner

Sunday, Oct. 27

09.00	Session 6: Stress and Metabolism	Chairman: Leszek Kleczkowski
	Javier Pozueta-Romero, Univ. Publ. Navarra
	Nucleotide-Sugar Pyrophosphatases On The Move: Do They Control Gluconeogenesis In Plants, Bacteria And Animals
	Christine Foyer, IACR-Rothamsted
	Unravelling C/N Sensing In Sugar-Signalling Mutants
	Per Gardeström, Natalia Bykova, Abir Igamberdiev, Tiit Pärnik, Olav Keerberg
	Respiration in the light is inhibited by photorespiration
	Päivi Martinsuo, Saijaliisa Pursiheimo, Eva-Mari Aro, and Eevi Rintamäki
	Dynamic regulation of LHCII protein phosphorylation via chloroplast redox potential: a search for regulatory compounds
10.40	Coffee
11.10	Sesssion 7: Oxygen Evolution/Artificial Photosynthesis	Chairman: Göran Samuelsson
	V. V. Klimov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino
	Bicarbonate Requirement For The Water-Oxidizing Complex Of Photosystem II
	Stenbjörn Styring, Lund University
	The Molecular Function Of Tyrosine-Z And The Water-Oxidizing Complex In Photosystem II Studied At Different pH
	A.N.Macpherson, P.A.Liddell, E Mariño-Ochoa, E.Durantini, R.Palacios, T. Gillbro, D. Gust, T. A. Moore and A. L. Moore
	Biomimicry of the antenna function of carotenoids
	Fikret Mamedov, Ravi Danielsson, Rena Gadjieva, Per-Åke Albertsson and Stenbjorn Styring
	Photosystem II in different domains of the thylakoid membrane - an EPR study
12.50	Closing
13.00	Lunch and departure