Plenary Speakers

Toshiharu Shikanai (Kyoto University, Japan )

Structure, assembly and physiological function of the chloroplast NDH-PSI supercomplex

Jun Minagawa (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Photoprotection in Chlamydomonas : Mechanism and signal transduction

Jian-Ren Shen (Okayama University/Institute of Botany, CAS, Japan )

Mechanism of photosynthetic water-splitting catalyzed by the Mn₄CaO₅ metal cluster of photosystem II

Masato Nakai (Osaka University, Japan)

Evolution and mechanism of chloroplast protein import

Inhwan Hwang (University of Science and Technology Pohang 790-784 790-784 Korea)

Specific protein targeting to the chloroplast in plant cells

Zhenfeng Liu (Institute of Biophysics, CAS, Beijing,China )

Structures of the supramolecular machineries for light harvesting in plants

Han Min Woo (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU),  Republic of Korea)

Metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria for production of value-added chemicals from CO₂

Wim Vermaas (Arizona State University, USA)

Cyanobacteria as blue-green biofactories

Wei Chi(Institute of Botany, CAS, China)

Mechanisms and significant of retrograde signaling in higher plants

Min Chen (University of Sydney, Australia)

Molecular mechanism of photosynthesis driven by redshifted chlorophylls