Abstracts
(Listed alphabetically by first author)

ASSOCIATION OF LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEINS WITH PSI AND PSII IN THE BROWN TIDE ALGA AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERENS.
Meriem Alami, Jessica J. McSeveney and Beverley R. Green.

PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND THE RISE OF O2: CONSTRAINTS FROM THE GEOLOGIC RECORD (late abstract, does not appear in the online program).
Ariel D. Anbar.

STRAIN DEVELOPMENT OF NON-MODEL PHOTOSYNTHETIC MICROBES FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION.
Shaun Bailey, Jeffrey Moseley, Oliver Kilian and Bertrand Vick.

FLUX BALANCE ANALYSIS OF CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII: A PREDICTIVE TOOL FOR INVESTIGATING METABOLIC RESPONSES TO NITROGEN LIMITATION.
Nanette R. Boyle and John A. Morgan.

A SUPPRESSOR SCREEN IN PSBS-DEFICIENT PLANTS FOR RESTORED NON-PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING.
Matthew D. Brooks and Krishna K. Niyogi.

A BIOINFORMATICS/GENETIC APPROACH TO IDENTIFY CHLOROPLAST PROTEASES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO CHLOROPLAST PROTEIN DEGRADATION DURING LEAF SENESCENCE IN ARABIDOPSIS.
Judy A. Brusslan, Eileen M. Belanger, John V. Belletto, Robert D. Hoiness, Maryann Kimoto, Francisco Rodriguez, Yu-tou Tai, Scott W. van de Wetering.

CARBONYL SULFIDE AS A TRACER OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
J. Elliott Campbell and Joseph A. Berry.

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NATIVE CP12 COMPLEX OF CALVIN CYCLE ENZYMES FROM ARABIDOPSIS AND TOBACCO.
A. Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Lucia Marri, Francesca Sparla and Michael E. Salvucci.

DIFFERENTIAL SEQUENCE SPECIFICITY OF TRANSIT PEPTIDE RECOGNITION DURING BINDING AND IMPORT INTO PLASTIDS.
Prakitchai Chotewutmontri, L. Evan Reddick and Barry D. Bruce.

FTIR STUDIES OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC OXYGEN PRODUCTION.
Richard J. Debus.

STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE BIDIRECTIONAL HOX HYDROGENASE IN THE UNICELLULAR CYANOBACTERIUM, SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803.
Carrie Eckert, Jianping Yu, and Pin-Ching Maness.

IDENTIFICATION OF THE CIS REGIONS MEDIATING HIGH LIGHT RESPONSIVENESS IN THE ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA ELIP1 PROMOTER.
Daisy Flores, Ana M. Rus Alvarez, Francisco Rodriguez, and Judy A. Brusslan.

NEW INSIGTHS INTO THE SYMBIOSIS OF CYANOBACTERIA WITH MARINE INVERTEBRATES.
Petra Fromme, Raimund Fromme, Anthony Larkum and Min Chen.

LIGHT HARVESTING AND ITS ADAPTATION OF MARINE CYANOBACTERIA AND GREEN ALGAE FROM SAMPLES COLLECTED AT HERON ISLAND (GREAT BARRIER REEF, AUSTRALIA).
Raimund Fromme, MinChen, Tony Larkum  and Petra Fromme.

HOW THE CP29 MINOR LIGHT HARVESTING COMPLEX ACTS AS ENERGY COLLECTOR, CONDUIT, AND QUENCHER IN PHOTOSYSTEM II.
Naomi S. Ginsberg, Jeffrey A. Davis, Matteo Ballottari, Yuan-Chung Cheng, Roberto Bassi and Graham R. Fleming.

ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION OF PHOTOSYSTEM I & PHOTOSYSTEM II OF THE RED ALGA GALDIERIA SULPHURARIA.
Jason Greyslak, Balakumar Thangaraj and Petra Fromme.

EFFICIENT LIGHT-HARVESTING BY PHOTOSYTEM II REQUIRES AN OPTIMIZED PROTEIN PACKING DENSITY IN GRANA THYLAKOIDS.
Silvia Haferkamp, Winfried Haase, Herbert van Amerongen and Helmut Kirchhoff.

VERIFYING THE USE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES AS A ROBUST REPLACEMENT FOR SOUTHERN BLOT ANALYSIS OF MITOCHONDIRAL DNA TRANSFER IN STREPTOPHYTA.
Arlene L.M. Haffa, W. Kent Kovac and Monica Montano.

PASSING THE PLASTOCYANIN FOOTBALL.
Chris C. Hall, David M. Kramer and Helmut Kirchhoff.

GROWTH AND PHYLOGENETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CYANOBACTERIUM CHROOCOCCIDIOPSIS SP. STRAIN TS-821.
Danielle K. Harrell, Barry D. Bruce and Gladys Alexandre.

ANALYSIS OF GREEN CUT MUTANTS OF UNKNOWN FUNCTION IN THE UNICELLULAR GREEN ALGA CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII.
Blaise Hamel, Mark Heinnickel, David Dewez, Rachel Dent, Krishna Niyogi and Arthur R. Grossman.

ANALYSIS OF TWO GREEN CUT GENES CPLD38 AND CGL73.
Mark Heinnickel, David Dewez, Blaise Hamel, Xenie Johnson, Jean Alric, Francis-André Wollman, Rachel Dent, Krishna Niyogi, Steven J. Karpowicz, Sabeeha S. Merchant and Arthur R. Grossman.

IMPROVED ELECTRON TRANSPORT FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION BY DIRECT ELECTRON TRANSFER FROM CYANOBACTERIAL PHOTOSYSTEM I TO A [NI-FE] HYDROGENASE.
Ifeyinwa J. Iwuchukwu, Khoa Nguyen, Natalie Myers, Danielle Harrell, Lauren Johnson, Barry D. Bruce and Paul Frymier.

COORDINATE TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC LIGHT HARVESTING GENE EXPRESSION BY LIGHT COLOR.
David M. Kehoe, Ryan P. Bezy and Andrian Gutu.

THE BROMIDE BINDING SITE IN THE CATALYTIC CENTER OF PHOTOSYSTEM II STUDIED BY X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY.
Jan Kern, Megan Shelby, Yulia Pushkar, Naoko Ishida, Thanh-Lan Lai, Junko Yano, Alain Boussac and Vittal Yachandra.

ENGINEERING THE LIGHT-HARVESTING CHLOROPHYLL ANTENNA SIZE TO IMPROVE SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION EFFICIENCY.
Henning Kirst and Anastasios Melis.

THE LIGHT REACTIONS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS ARE CONTROLLED BY STARCH SYNTHESIS VIA REGULATION OF THE CHLOROPLAST ATP SYNTHASE.
Kaori Kohzuma, Yasuko Nagai, Atsuko Kanazawa, Jeffrey A. Cruz and David M. Kramer.

CLUSTERING OF BASE PAIRINGS (GC/AT) IN SMALL CIRCULAR GENOMES.
W. Kent Kovac and Arlene L. M. Haffa.

ELECTROCHEMICAL STUDIES OF PHOTOSYSTEM II.
B. B. Lassalle, W. Leibl and A. W. Rutherford.

RECOMBINANT PRODUCTION OF THE C SUBUNIT FROM THE CHLOROPLAST ATP-SYNTHASE.
Robert M. Lawrence and Petra Fromme.

LUTEIN ACCUMULATION IN THE ABSENCE OF ZEAXANTHIN RESTORES NONPHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING IN THE ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA NPQ1 MUTANT.
Zhirong Li, Tae Kyu Ahn, Thomas J. Avenson, Matteo Ballottari, Jeffrey A. Cruz, David M. Kramer, Roberto Bassi, Graham R. Fleming, Jay D. Keasling and Krishna K. Niyogi.

CYCLIC ELECTRON TRANSFER AND PHOTOSYNTHETIC ENERGY BALANCE.
Aaron Livingston, Atsuko Kanazawa, Jeffrey A. Cruz, Kaori Kohzuma, Heather Enlow, Amelia Barhanovhich, Amit Dhingra and David M. Kramer.

GENETIC ENGINEERING OF SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC6803 FOR SUSTAINED HYDROGEN PRODUCTION.
Pin-Ching Maness, Jianping Yu, Gary Vanzin, and Sharon Smolinski.

REGULATION OF THE CHLOROPHYLL ANTENNA SIZE IN CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII BY TLA1 GENE OVER-EXPRESSION AND RNA INTERFERENCE
Mautusi Mitra, Henning Kirst, David Dewez,Sam Ng and Anastasios Melis.

DESIGN SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TETRAPYRROLIC–ACETYLACETONATE LINKERS FOR ROBUST FUNCTIONALIZATION OF TiO2 IN DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS.
Gary F. Moore, James D. Blakemore, Hee-eun Song, Rebecca L. Milot, Victor S. Batista, Charles A. Schmuttenmaer, Robert H. Crabtree and Gary W. Brudvig.

CONDITIONS FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY ELECTROPORATION OF THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS BP-1.
Khoa Nguyen, Natalie Myers, Barry D. Bruce and Danielle Harrell.

COPPER DELIVERY FOR PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN PLANTS.
Marinus Pilon, Salah Abdel-Ghany, Chris Cohu, Katie Gogolin, Karl Ravet and Wiebke Tapken.

REGULATION OF IRON-SULFUR CLUSTER FORMATION IN PLASTIDS.
Elizabeth Pilon-Smits, Doug Van Hoewyk, Narayana Murthy and Marinus Pilon.

CONSTRUCTION OF A PS1-HYDROGENASE FUSION FOR DIRECT AND CONTINUOUS PHOTOPRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN IN VIVO.
Kiera T. Reifschneider and Kevin Redding.

ENGINEERING OF A BACTERIAL REACTION CENTER FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS.
Rafael Saer, Arash Takshi, Ali Mahmoudzadeh, John D. Madden and J. Thomas Beatty.

PROSPECTS FOR IMPROVING PHOTOSYNTHETIC PERFORMANCE AT HIGHER TEMPERATURES BY RE-ENGINEERING RUBISCO ACTIVASE.
Michael E. Salvucci, Csengele Barta, A. Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Alison Chausse and Rebekka M. Wachter.

SPECTROSCOPIC EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE PRESENCE OF A SEMIQUINONE ANION RADICAL IN THE ELECTRON TRANSFER CHAIN OF REACTION CENTERS FROM HELIOBACTERIUM MODESTICALDUM.
Josephine Sarrou, Zahid Khan, Marco Flores and Kevin Redding.

THERMOPHILIC CYANOBACTERIA - FOSSILS OF OXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHESIS; EVOLUTIONARY CLUES PRESENT IN PS II PROTEIN SEQUENCES.
Kenneth Sauer.

ELUCIDATION OF THE STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP IN LHCII USING POLARIZED 2D ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY
Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen, Tessa R. Calhoun, Naomi S. Ginsberg, Matteo Ballottari, Roberto Bassi and Graham R. Fleming. 

FTIR STUDIES OF THE WATER OXIDIZING COMPLEX IN PHOTOSYSTEM II.
Rachel J. Service and Richard J. Debus.

STUDIES OF THE CATALYTIC CYCLE OF LIGHT INDUCED WATER OXIDATION IN PHOTOSYSTEM II USING X-RAY EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY.
Megan Shelby, Jan Kern, Henning Schroeder, Vittal Yachandra, Uwe Bergmann and Junko Yano.

PROTEOMICS OF THE GREEN ALGA, CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII, UNDER HYDROGEN-PRODUCING CONDITIONS.
Michael Seibert, Venkataramanan Subramanian, Alexandra Dubini, Arthur R. Grossman and Matthew C. Posewitz.

THE EFFECTS OF PHOTOINHIBITION ON THE PROTON CIRCUIT OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
Deserah D. Strand and David M. Kramer.

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AS A NEW TOOL FOR VISUALIZING PROTEIN ARRANGEMENT IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA THYLAKOIDS.
Stefanie Tietz and Helmut Kirchhoff.

INTRAGENIC ENHANCERS AND SUPPRESSORS OF PHYTOENE DESATURASE MUTATIONS IN CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII.
Phoi T. Tran, Marina N. Sharifi, Subhajit Poddar, Marilyn C. Kobayashi, Rachel M. Dent and Krishna K. Niyogi.

LHCSR: A NOVEL PLAYER IN NPQ IN CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII.
Thuy B. Truong, Graham Peers, Dafna Elrad, Arthur Grossman, Marilyn Kobayashi, William Inwood, Sydney Kustu, Giulia Bonente, Roberto Bassi, Tae K. Ahn, Graham Fleming and Krishna Niyogi.

BIOPHYSICAL STUDIES OF HIGHER PLANT RUBISCO ACTIVASE.
Rebekka M. Wachter, Csengele Barta, Alison Chausse and Michael E. Salvucci.

INVOLVEMENT OF A PUTATIVE FO SYNTHASE GENE IN SINGLET OXYGEN SIGNALING OF CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII
Setsuko Wakao, Brian Chin, Heidi K. Ledford, David Casero, Rachel M. Dent, Matteo Pellegrini and Krishna K. Niyogi.

DESIGN OF A PBS-PSI FUSION FOR EXTENDED SPECTRAL RESPONSE: IN VITRO PHYCOBILISOME DISASSEMBLY, CPCG2-PSI FUSION PROTEINS AND IN VITRO REASSAMBLY.
Paul Willard, Andrew Herget, Khoa Nguyen, Danielle Harrell and Barry D. Bruce.

ROLE OF LIGANDS IN THE OXYGEN-EVOLVING COMPLEX IN PHOTOSYSTEM II.
Junko Yano, Jan Kern, Megan Shelby, Vittal K. Yachandra and Richard J. Debus.

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