Session: Excited Electronic States in Chemistry and Biology: Theory and Experiment


PHYS		Monday, August 20, 2007

8:20 AM-11:50 AM BCEC -- 160A, Oral
Excited Electronic States in Chemistry and Biology: Theory and Experiment
Protein Environments and Extended Systems
Organizers:	Todd J. Martinez Spiridoula Matsika
Presiding:	Marcus Elstner
8:20 AM	112	Computer simulations of photobiological reactions: Advances and problems Arieh Warshel
9:00 AM	113	Radiationless decay and protein structural transitions in Zn(II)-substituted cytochrome c Warren F. Beck, Sanela Lampa-Pastirk, Kenneth J. Barns
9:20 AM	114	Direct QM/MM simulations of the excited state dynamics of retinal protonated Schiff base in isolation and complex environments Chutintorn Punwong, Jane M. Owens, Todd J. Martínez
9:40 AM		Intermission
9:50 AM	115	Excited state, proton transfer and solvation dynamics in green fluorescent protein (GFP) Steven G. Boxer
10:30 AM	116	Computational modeling and design of fluorescent dyes for bioimaging David J. Yaron, Volkan Ediz, Jihoon Lumen Lee, Gloria L Silva, Bruce A. Armitage
10:50 AM	117	Exciton-bath modeling and computation of the energy transfer dynamics in bacterial light harvesting complex 2 Seogjoo Jang
11:10 AM	118	Computational design and characterization of a biomimetic photochemical switch Massimo Olivucci

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