Meeting Program

26 May

12:30 PM – 12:55 PM: Registration — Sorbonne Université – Campus Pierre et Marie Curie (Jussieu)

12:55 PM – 1:00 PM: Welcome

Session 1

Chair: Francis-André Wollman

1:00 PM – 1:05 PM: Introduction

1:05 PM – 1:45 PM: Alizée Malnoë (Indiana University, USA)
Regulation and mechanism of photoprotective qH in Arabidopsis

1:45 PM – 2:00 PM: Eva Cavallari (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Molecular insights into LHCSR1-mediated quenching in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

2:00 PM – 2:25 PM: Catherine de Vitry (IBPC, France)
CCB pathway for heme c_i assembly within cytochrome b6f complexes

Session 2

Chair: Francis-André Wollman

2:25 PM – 3:05 PM: Reimo Zoschke (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Assembly-dependent translational feedback regulation of photosynthetic proteins in land plants

3:05 PM – 3:20 PM: Barbara Bourgade (University of Uppsala, Sweden)
Coordination of thylakoid lipid remodelling and photoprotection under high light in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

3:20 PM – 3:45 PM: Yves Choquet (IBPC, France)
Sequence-specific recognition of plastid mRNAs by OPR proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

3:45 PM – 3:50 PM: Aurélie Crépin (Aix-Marseille University, France)
Journey to the Heart of the Plant Cell : a hands-on, 3D-printed model for photosynthesis popularization

3:50 PM – 4:30 PM: Coffee break

Session 3

Chair: Francis-André Wollman

4:30 PM – 5:10 PM: Rory Craig (University of Melbourne, Australia)
The Chlamydomonas pan-genome: insights from chromosome-level assemblies of 20 laboratory and wild strains

5:10 PM – 5:25 PM: Benoit de Pins (University of Naples, Italy)
Exploring biological carbon fixation on Earth

5:25 PM – 5:50 PM: Olivier Vallon (IBPC, France)
OPR-RAP proteins as sequence-specific endoribonucleases in the chloroplast

Session 4

5:50 PM – 6:20 PM: Poster Flash Presentations

6:20 PM – 7:15 PM: Drinks & Snacks at Jussieu

7:30 PM: Buffet Dinner at IBPC (optional - €32 – registration required)

27 May

Session 5

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM: Poster Session at IBPC & Coffee break

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Move to Sorbonne Université – Campus Pierre et Marie Curie (Jussieu)

Session 6

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Dimitris Petroutsos (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Environmental signal integration in Chlamydomons reinhardtii

12:00 PM – 12:15 PM: Anna Santin (University of Padova, Italy)
Exploring the interplay between Nitrogen and Carbon metabolism in diazotrophic cyanobacteria

12:15 PM – 12:30 PM: Hirono Suzuki (BIAM, France)
Mitochondrial bicarbonate transport supports carbon recycling and CCM efficiency in Chlamydomonas

12:30 PM – 12:45 PM: Nour Zaher (University of Tuscia, Italy)
Assisted regeneration of Quercus robur (L.) from laboratory to the field in the Castelporziano Presidential Estate (Roma, Italy)

12:45 PM – 2:00 PM: Lunch at Jussieu

Session 7

2:00 PM – 2:05 PM: Information on PhotoINC network webinars and the 2027 Summer School: “Understanding and Monitoring Photosynthesis Across Scales in a Changing Environment”

2:05 PM – 2:20 PM: SFPhi General Assembly

Session 8

2:20 PM – 2:50 PM: Dimitri Tolleter (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Sustaining the cell energy in dynamic environments requires photosynthetic electron flows with diverse bandwidths

2:50 PM – 3:05 PM: Melvin Rodriguez-Heredia (Queen Mary University, UK)
Thylakoid Rhodanase Like 1 is required for Photosystem I resilience in barley

3:05 PM – 3:20 PM: Albert Buenos (I2BC, France)
Lessons from Nature: Can Electrostatics Unlock Artificial Photosynthesis?

3:20 PM – 3:35 PM: Elizaveta Grishaeva (LRS, France)
Time-resolved spectroscopic studies on natural and artificial Orange Carotenoid Protein

Closing Session

3:35 PM – 3:50 PM: Concluding remarks & talk and poster prizes