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Thursday, August 15 • 10:15am - 12:45pm
Addressing Inefficiencies of Rubisco and Photorespiration Symposium

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10:15 Martha Ludwig
The C2 and C4 photosynthetic pathways – identifying molecular components and strategies evolution has used to mitigate the shortcomings of Rubisco and photorespiration on
carbohydrate production

10:45 Bob Spreitzer
Engineering Rubisco in Chlamydomonas

11:15 Martin Hagemann
Evolution of photorespiration – from cyanobacteria via algae toward plants

11:45 Manajit Hayer-Hartl
AAA+ chaperones required for rubisco maintenance

12:15 Spencer Whitney (Chair)
Advances in bioengineering Rubisco in leaf chloroplasts.

This symposium explores research seeking to understand the molecular detail of natures’ physiological and biochemical solutions for circumventing the inadequacies of Rubisco catalysis and photorespiration. Presented will be innovative fundamental studies that span phylogentics, protein-protein interactions, enzyme kinetics and novel bioengineering platforms in vitro, in plastids and in algae that are targeted towards developing practical strategies for improving plant carbon fixation and growth.
Moderators
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Spencer Whitney

ARC Future Fellow, The Australian national university
The primary foci of my groups research is to utilise recent technological and conceptual breakthroughs to study Rubisco biogenesis, modify its catalysis, understand its regulation by Rubisco activase and generally tackle the challenges faced in developing strategies for enhancing... Read More →

Speakers
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Martin Hagemann

University of Rostock
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Manajit Hayer-Hartl

Independent Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Molecular chaperones and Rubisco biogenesis. My group investigates molecular chaperone functions in protein folding and assembly. One major focus is the mechanism by which the GroEL/GroES chaperonin of E. coli promotes protein folding. The other is to understand the machinery required... Read More →
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Martha Ludwig

Univ. Western Australia
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Bob Spreitzer

Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska

Thursday August 15, 2013 10:15am - 12:45pm CDT
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