Sponsored by the American Society for Photobiology
10:15 Harry Frank (Chair) Spectroscopic properties and dynamics of the excited states of polyenes and carotenoids
10:45 Tomas Polivka Variability of carotenoid-chlorophyll energy transfer pathways in light-harvesting complexes of microorganisms
11:15 Diana Kirilovsky The cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein (OCP) Interactions with the phycobilisome and the Fluorescence Recovery Protein (FRP)
11:45 Luca Dall'Osto Control of thylakoid membrane composition by xanthophylls
12:15 Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción Regulation of plant carotenoid biosynthesis: learning from a weed
The Symposium on Carotenoids will feature talks on the photochemistry and photophysics of carotenoids and will deal with the mechanisms by which these molecules accomplish light-harvesting and photoprotection. Information on how carotenoids control the composition of pigment-protein complexes in thylakoid membranes and the manner in which carotenoid biosynthesis is regulated in plants will also be presented.
