Photosynthesis Journal Club
This
is an ongoing journal club open to anyone interested in reading and discussing
recent papers on the topic of photosynthesis.
Every week during the semester, individuals take turns selecting a paper
and presenting an informal talk. Participants are also welcome to present old
(but important) papers, in addition to papers on topics related peripherally to
photosynthesis (eg, signalling,
techniques, environment, etc). We
occasionally welcome visitors from other universities to speak about their
research.
Emails are sent out every week, announcing the next paper and sending a reminder. If you would like to be added to this email list, please contact Graham Peers,
g*p*e*e*r*s* AT n*a*t*u*r*e DOT
*b*e*r*k*e*l*e*y DOT e*d*u
For the Spring 2007 semester, we are meeting in Koshland Hall, room 438 (the small conference room on the fourth floor on the west hallway next to the autoclave room)
We are meeting on Wednesdays at 2:30 PM.
SPRING 2007 SCHEDULE:
February 14: Roberto
Bassi (
"On the phsyiological function of xanthophylls in higher plants"
February 21: Barry
Osmond (
"Some aspects of NPQ in avocado; a species rich in lutein epoxide"
February 28: Beat
Fisher (Niyogi Lab)
“Singlet Oxygen Induced Photooxidative Stress Response in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”
March 7: Setsuko Wakao (Niyogi Lab)
"Nonenzymatic Lipid Peroxidation Reprograms Gene Expression and Activates Defense Markers in Arabidopsis Tocopherol-Deficient Mutants"Sattler et al. (2006)http://www.plantcell.org/cgi/reprint/18/12/3706
March 14: Tom Avenson (Niyogi Lab)
“Two lutein molecules in LHCII have different conformations and functions: Insights into the molecular mechanism of thermal dissipation in plants"
by Chang et al. (2007)
FALL 2006 SCHEDULE:
September 13: Professor Roberto De Philippis
(Visiting from
“Heavy metal sorption
with exopolysaccharide-producing cyanobacteria”
September 20: Matt Melnicki
"Conservation of
Distantly Related Membrane Proteins: Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Share a
Common Structural Core"
Sadekar S, Raymond J, Blankenship RE (2006)
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Advance Access
[LINK]
September 27: NO MEETING
October 4: Professor Refat Abdel-Basset (
“Photosynthetic Control of Hydrogen Evolution in Oscillatoria”
October 11: Setsuko Wakao
“Rice NTRC is a high-efficiency redox system for chloroplast protection against oxidative damage”
Perez-Ruiz JM, Spinola MC, Kirchsteiger K,
Plant Cell 18:2356-2368 (2006)
[LINK]
(also look at: Kim et al 2006: “Mitochondria-associated hexokinases play a role in the control of programmed cell death in Nicotiana benthamiana”)
Plant Cell 18:2341-2355 (2006)
[LINK]
October 18: Mautusi Mitra
"An Arabidopsis chloroplast-targeted Hsp101 homologue, APG6, has an essential role in chloroplast development as well as heat-stress response"
Fumiyoshi Myouga, Reiko Motohashi, Takashi Kuromori, Noriko Nagata, and Kazuo Shinozaki
The Plant Journal, Volume 48 Page 249 - October 2006
[LINK]
October 25: Lucia
Bianchi (
“Hydrogen production
in the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris”
November 1: Pia Lindberg
“Remote control of
photosynthetic genes by the mitochondrial respiratory chain”
Mitsuhiro Matsuo and Junichi Obokata, The Plant Journal Volume 47, Issue 6, Page 873 (September 2006)
[LINK]
November 8: Professor Christer Sundqvist (visiting from Göteborg University "Pchlide, POR and the formation of prolamellar bodies during chloroplast development."
November 15: Dale Aromdee
"Pigment Shuffling in Antenna Systems Achieved by Expressing Prokaryotic Chlorophyllide a Oxygenase in Arabidopsis"Masumi Hirashima, Soichirou Satoh, Ryouichi Tanaka, and Ayumi TanakaJ. Biol. Chem., Vol. 281, Issue 22, 15385-15393, June 2, 2006
[LINK]
November 22: Professor Inci Eroglu (visiting from Middle East TechnicalUniversity, Ankara , Turkey
November 29: NO MEETING
December 6: NO MEETING
December 13: Graham Peers
Sweetlove et al.
"Mitochondrial uncoupling protein is required for efficient photosynthesis"
[LINK]
December 20: SEMESTER ENDS
* * *
(Past presentations)
SPRING 2006 SCHEDULE:
January 25: Professor Inci Eroglu (Visiting from
“Aspects of Hydrogen Production by Photofermentative Bacteria”
February 1:
Professor Hartmut Lichtenthaler
(Visiting from
“Evolution of the plastidic DOXP/MEP pathway of isoprenoid biosynthesis”
February 8: Mautusi Mitra (Melis Lab)
“NAB1 Is an RNA Binding Protein Involved in the Light-Regulated Differential Expression of the Light-Harvesting Antenna of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”
Jan H. Mussgnug,
The Plant Cell 17:3409-3421 (2005)
February 15: NO
MEETING
February 22: Setsuko
Wakao (Niyogi Lab)
"Peroxiredoxin Q of
Arabidopsis thaliana is attached to the thylakoids
and functions in context of photosynthesis"
Lankemeyer et al 2006
Plant Journal - Online Early
[LINK]
March 1: Matt Melnicki (Melis Lab)
"Divergent
pathways of photosynthetic electron transfer: the autonomous oxygenic and anoxygenic photosystems"
Arnon, DI (1995)
Photosynthesis Research 46:47-71
[LINK]
March 8: NO MEETING
March 15: Professor
Kris Niyogi – SPECIAL TIME – 2 PM (CANCELLED)
“The Arabidopsis
vitamin E pathway gene5-1 Mutant Reveals a Critical Role for Phytol Kinase in Seed Tocopherol Biosynthesis”
Valentin HE et al.
Plant Cell (2006), 18:212-224
[LINK]
March 22: Hae Youn Lee (visiting) – SPECIAL
TIME – 2 PM
March 29: SPRING RECESS
April 5: Talila Golan (Niyogi Lab) – TIME
CHANGE: 2 PM (rest of semester)
“PsbS enhances nonphotochemical fluorescence quenching in the absence of zeaxanthin”
Crouchman S, Ruban A, Horton
P
FEBS Letters (2006) v.580(8):2053-2058
April 12: NO MEETING
April 19: Ben Gutman (Niyogi Lab) – TIME CHANGE: 2 PM
“Elimination of
deleterious mutations in plastid genomes by gene conversion”
Olga Khakhlova and Ralph Bock
The Plant Journal, Volume 46 Page 85 - April 2006
[LINK]
April 26: NO MEETING
May 3: Pia Lindberg (Niyogi Lab) – 2 PM
“An internal antisense RNA regulates
expression of the photosynthesis gene isiA”
Duhring U, Axmann IM, Hess WR, Wilde A.
PNAS 2006 Apr 24; [Epub ahead of print]
[LINK]
May 10: Heidi
Ledford
May 17: LAST WEEK OF SEMESTER
* * *
FALL 2005 SCHEDULE:
September 14: Talila Golan, Niyogi Lab
“Control of the light harvesting
function of chloroplast membranes: The LHCII-aggregation model for
non-photochemical quenching”
Peter Horton, Mark Wentworth, Alexander Ruban
FEBS Letters 579 (2005): 4201-4206
September 21: Anchalee Sirikhachornkit, Niyogi Lab
“Tocopherol as singlet oxygen scavenger in photosystem II”
Jerzy Kruk, Heike
Holländer-Czytko, Walter Oettmeier and Achim Trebst
Journal of Plant Physiology,Volume 162, Issue 7, 1 July 2005, Pages 749-757
September 28:
“Psb29, a Conserved
22-kD Protein, Functions in the Biogenesis of Photosystem
II Complexes in Synechocystis and Arabidopsis”
Nir Keren,
Plant Cell Preview
Published online September 9, 2005
October 5: Mautusi Mitra, Melis Lab
"The N-Terminal
Domain of Chlorophyllide a Oxygenase
Confers Protein Instability in Response to Chlorophyll b Accumulation in
Arabidopsis"
Akihiro Yamasato, Nozomi
Nagata, Ryouichi Tanaka and Ayumi
Tanaka
The Plant Cell 17:1585-1597 (2005)
[LINK]
October 12: Matt Melnicki, Melis Lab
"Transcriptome Analysis of the Rhodobacter
sphaeroides PpsR Regulon: PpsR as a Master
Regulator of Photosystem Development"
Oleg V. Moskvin, Larissa Gomelsky,
and Mark Gomelsky
J.Bacteriol. Vol. 187, Nol.
6, Mar. 2005, p.2148-2156
[LINK]
October 19: Klaus Apel, visiting from
October 26: Pia Lindberg, Melis Lab
“Plant Circadian Clocks Increase Photosynthesis, Growth, Survival, and Competitive Advantage”
Dodd AN, Salathia N, Hall A, Kevei E, Toth R, Nagy F, Hibberd JM, Millar AJ, Webb AAR.
Science, Vol 309, Issue 5734, 630-633 , 22 July 2005
November 2: Tasios Melis
"Improved photobiological
H2 production in engineered green algal cells"
Kruse O, Rupprecht J, Bader KP, Thomas-Hall S, Schenk PM, Finazzi G, Hankamer B.
J Biol Chem. 2005 Aug 12; [Epub ahead of print]
November 9: Kris Niyogi
Michel Havaux, Françoise Eymery, Svetlana Porfirova, Pascal Rey , and Peter Dörmann
Plant Cell Preview, Published online October 28, 2005
November 16: Bob Buchanan
“S-Glutathionylation: from redox
regulation of protein functions to human diseases”
Daniela
Giustarini, R. Rossi, A. Milzani, R. Colombo, Isabella Dalle-Donne
J. Cell. Mol. Med. Vol 8, No 2, 2004 pp. 201-212
November 23: (THANKSGIVING)
November 30: Amy Harris, Zambryski Lab
“Differential use of
two cyclic electron flows around photosystem I for
driving CO2-concentration mechanism in C4 photosynthesis”
Atsushi Takabayashi, Masahiro Kishine,
Kozi Asada, Tsuyoshi Endo, and Fumihiko Sato
PNAS | November 15, 2005 | vol. 102 | no. 46 | 16898-16903
[LINK]
December 7: Heidi Ledford, Niyogi Lab
December 14: (no speaker planned)
December 21: (