Confirmed Speakers

  • Alistair McCormick, University of Edinburgh, UK
    • Functionalising pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in C3 plants
  • Ben Engel, Biozentrum – University of Basel, Switzerland
    • Exploring the molecular architecture of photosynthetic organelles with cryo-electron tomography
  • Christine Foyer, University of Birmingham, UK
    • Chloroplast ROS production and stress tolerance
  • Emilie Demarsy, University of Geneva, Switzerland
    • UVR8-induced photoprotection of the photosynthetic machinery
  • Felix Kessler, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    • Proteomic evidence for the breakdown of Photosystem assembly in chloroplast biogenetic mutants
  • Hans-Henning Kunz, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
    • Chloroplast ion flux and its emerging role for plant stress signaling
  • Ralf Bernd Klösgen, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
    • How to get a camel through the eye of a needle? -Transport of folded proteins across the thylakoid membrane
  • Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
    • Taming plastids for biotechnology and synthetic biology
  • Samuel Zeeman, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    • Proteins controlling granule initiation and phase transition during starch biosynthesis
  • Silvia Ramundo, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austria
    • Unveiling the Functions of Two Evolutionarily Conserved Proteins in Chloroplast Membrane Maintenance and Photoprotection
  • Susann Wicke, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
    • Evolution and relevance of plastids and their genomes in parasitic plants