PHYSSunday, April 6, 2008

8:00 AM-12:00 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 344, Oral
Optical Probes of Dynamics in Complex Environments
Protein Dynamics
Organizer:Andrei Tokmakoff
Organizer, Presiding:Roseanne J. Sension
8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:10 AM2-D Optical spectroscopy of photosynthetic light harvesting complexes
Gregory S. Engel
8:50 AMFemtosecond dynamic-absorption studies of intermolecular vibrational coherence in bacteriochlorophyll and Zn–porphyrin charge-transfer dynamics
Warren F. Beck, Kevin L. Dillman, Sanela Lampa-Pastirk, Katherine R. Shelly
9:10 AMResolving the excited and ground state reaction coordinates in the green fluorescence protein and mutants with dispersed pump-dump probe spectroscopy
Delmar S. Larsen, Jie Pan, Mikas Vengris, Deborah Stoner-Ma, Peter J. Tonge
9:30 AMNanoparticle induced light-harvesting membrane protein deformation (LH2) revealed by ultrafast spectroscopic study of the excitonic states
Yu-Xiang Weng
10:10 AMIntermission
10:20 AM2-D Electronic spectroscopy studies of energy transfer
Jennifer P Ogilvie, Myers Jeffrey, Kristin LM Lewis, Patrick F Tekavec
11:00 AMHidden electronic excited state of enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) by new multiplex two-photon absorption spectroscopy
Haruko Hosoi, Shoichi Yamaguchi, Hideaki Mizuno, Atsushi Miyawaki, Tahei Tahara
11:20 AMComputational insights into the mechanism of water splitting in photosystem II
Eduardo M. Sproviero, Jose A. Gascon, James McEvoy, Gary W. Brudvig, Victor S. Batista

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