Seminars and contributions to scientific meetings.

Lund. Looking South towards the Cathedral, early evening.

27-29 February. 28th National Institute for Basic Biology Conference "Dynamics of thylakoid membrane assembly", Okazaki, Japan. Invited lecture "Protein phosphorylation and control of protein-protein interactions in photosynthetic membranes" in session "Regulation of photosynthetic membrane composition".

30 March-1 April. AFRC Robert Hill Symposium on Photosynthesis, Imperial College, London, U.K. Invited speaker. "Protein structural implications of LHC II phosphorylation".

29 June. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Laboratory of Microbiology. Seminar ìRedox control of protein phosphorylation in photosynthesis: structural effects and implications for the evolution of organelle genomesî.

27-30 August 1992. International Symposium on Molecular Structure and Regulation of Photosynthetic Pigment Systems, Sanda Conference Center, Osaka, Japan. Oral presentation "Protein structural implication of LHC II phosphorylation".

30 August - 4 September. XIth International Congress on Photosynthesis, Nagoya, Japan. Invited discussion leader in session on "Light Acclimation". Three poster presentations: "Molecular structural effects of protein phosphorylation in regulation of photosynthesis"; "Partial purification of the 15 kDa phosphoprotein of Synechococcus 6301"; "A photodamage process which is distinguishable from photoinactivation is characterized as inactivation of multiple sites".

5-7 September 1992. Meeting on Evolution of Photosynthetic Systems. National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan. Poster presentation "Redox control of gene expression in chloroplast evolution".

27 September-1 October 1992. IIIe cycle romand en sciences biologiques, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland: Signal Transduction in Biological Systems. Invited lecture "Regulation of photosynthesis by protein phosphorylation". Chairman and organiser of Journal Club.

2 October. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland. Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics. Seminar ìProtein phosphorylation in regulation of photosynthesisî.

2 October. Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Department of Microbiology. Seminar ìProtein phosphorylation in regulation of photosynthesisî.

16 November. The Linnean Society of London, London, U.K.. Educational Lectures for Sixth Form Students. Invited lecture. "Photosynthesis and Molecular Evolution".

26 November. Umeå University, Sweden. Department of Plant Physiology. Seminar ìPhosphorylation of LHC II: membrane and protein structural implicationsî.

5-7 December. Scheele Symposium on Oxygen, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. Participant.

18 January. Plant Biochemistry Laboratory, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark. Seminar ìCyclic photophosphorylationî.

24 February. Lund University, Sweden. Lund Molecular Biology Seminar Series. ìProtein phosphorylation in redox control of photosynthesis: structural and evolutionary predictionsî.

20-23 May. Ruhr Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany. DFG Forschergruppe meeting Expression und interaktion von funktionselementen in der biogenese pflanzlicher organellen. Guest speaker on ìMolecular biology of thylakoid functionî. ìThylakoid protein phosphorylation in regulation of chloroplast function and assemblyî.

3 June. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. Botanisches Institut. Seminar ìRegulation of photosynthesis by protein phosphorylation in chloroplasts and cyanobacteriaî.

28 June-2 July. Conference Jacques Monod de la CNRS, Aussois, France, ìProtein-protein interactions in the photosynthetic apparatusî. Poster and verbal presentation ìPhosphorylation determines the structure of the N-terminus of chloroplast LHC II: NMR studies of synthetic peptidesî. Chairman of session.

4-6 November. Second Nordic Conference on Photosynthesis, Oslo, Norway. Eight poster presentations, including single-author poster ìAn hypothesis for the function of chloroplast genomesî. Chairman of session ìPhotosystem IIî.

8 March. Research Seminar ìProtein phophorylation in regulation of photosynthesisî, Department of Biochemistry, Odense University, Denmark

19-21 March. 3rd German-Swedish Symposium on ìStructure and Function of Photosynthetic Reaction Centresî Schloß Reinach, Freiburg-Munzingen, Germany. Invited speaker ìProtein phosphorylation and energy distributionî.

27-29 March. Plant Cell Biology Workshop on Thylakoid Protein Phosphorylation, Lund University, Sweden. This meeting grew from an extended research seminar invitation to a workshop with fifteen speakers from seven countries. The external speakers were Bertil Andersson, Stockholm University), Eva-Mari Aro, Turku University), Andrew Cuming, Leeds University), Doris Godde, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum), Erika Liker, Hungarian Academy, Szeged), Itzhak Ohad,, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Francis-André Wollman, Institut de biologie physico-chimique, Paris). The Lund University contributors were Per-Åke Albertsson, Hreinn Stefansson and Cecilia Sundby-Emanuelsson, from Biochemistry), and Lüling Cheng, Gunilla Håkansson, André Struglics, Dalibor Stys and myself from Plant Cell Biology. Krassimir Alexciev, Gunilla Håkansson and Carin Jarl-Sunesson chaired the sessions. My own title was ìProtein phosphorylation in regulation of photosynthesis - past and future tensesî. The Procedings of the meeting are published in the journal Physiologia Plantarum:- ìProceedings of a Plant Cell Biology workshop on thylakoid protein phosphorylation. Lund University, Sweden, 27-29 March, 1994. Physiologia Plantarum 93: 171-205, 1995î

27-30 April. Phytochemical Society and Federation of European Societies for Plant Physiology Meeting ìPlant Membrane Biologyî, Lund, Sweden. Member of organising committee. Invited lecture ìRedox control of protein phosphorylation in photosynthesis and gene expressionî.

1-6 May. Gordon Research Conference, Volterra, Italy, ìExtrachromosomal Elements: Mitochondria & Chloroplastsî. Invited speaker. ìProtein phosphorylation and redox homeostasis in chloroplasts and, other) prokaryotesî.

2 November. Research Seminar, Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, U.K. ìRedox signals in photosynthesis: a paradigm for chloroplast and mitochondrial gene expression?î

3 November. Nature 125th Anniversary Symposium ìOur Place in Natureî, The Royal Institution, London, U.K. Participant.

4 November. Research Seminar, Department of Biological Sciences, Warwick University, U.K. ìRedox signals in photosynthesis: structural and evolutionary implicationsî.

10-12 December. 34th National Institute for Basic Biology Conference ìResponses of the photosynthetic apparatus to environmental light conditionsî, Okazaki, Japan. Invited speaker. ìEffects of redox potential on thylakoid protein phosphorylation and on chloroplast and mitochondrial protein synthesisî.

17 January. Planning Meeting for Strategic Research Foundation Proposal ìMolecular Redox Signallingî, Biochemistry Department, Stockholm University, Sweden.

9 March. Research Seminar ìRedox signals in photosynthesis: structural and evolutionary implicationsî. Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Mülheim, Germany.

10 March. Research Seminar, Department of Botany, University of Münster, Germany

11 March. German Physiological Society International Symposium ìMechanisms of oxygen sensing to regulate ion channel activity and gene expressionî, Münster, Germany. Invited speaker: ìRedox control of gene expression in chloroplasts and mitochondriaî.

25 April. Research Seminar ìRedox signals in photosynthesis: implications for chloroplast and mitochondrial genomesî. Glynn Research Foundation, Bodmin, Cornwall, U.K.

16-20 August. International Workshop on Light-Harvesting Systems, satellite meeting). Nant, France. Two poster presentations.

20-25 August. Xth International Congress on Photosynthesis, Montpellier, France. Eight poster presentations and contributions to two discussion sessions.

19-21 November. Swedish Natural Science Research Council Symposium ìMolecular structure, function and dynamics, Lund, Sweden.

24-29 March. Conference Jacques Monod de la CNRS, Aussois, France, ìSynthesis and function of photosynthetic complexesî. Invited speaker ìRedox control of synthesis and phosphorylation of chloroplast proteinsî. Three poster presentations, and chairman of session ìStructure and function of light-harvesting systemsî.

17-20 April. 15th Annual Missouri Symposium on Current Topics in Plant Biochemistry, Physiology and Molecular Biology, ìPhosphorylation-Dephosphorylation of Plant Proteinsî, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, U.S.A. Invited lecture ìRedox control of chloroplast thylakoid protein phosphorylation: structural and evolutionary implicationsî.

17 May. Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Biology Graduate School, International Scientific Symposium ìDevelopmental Signalingî, Bochum, Germany. Invited lecture ìRedox signalingî.

24-26 May. Universität Regensburg. "The Cytochrome b6f-Complex - Electron Transfer, Proton Translocation and Redox Sensing" Workshop within the ESF-program "Biophysics of Photosynthesis". Invited speaker. ìRedox signals from the chloroplast thylakoid: structural and evolutionary implicationsî.

27-29 September. European Science Foundation Workshop ìMolecular Recognition in Photosynthesisî, Jaca, Spain. Invited speaker. ìPhosphorylation directs molecular recognition through helix formation at the N-terminus of chloroplast light-harvesting complex IIî.

25-27 October. Third Nordic Congress on Photosynthesis, Sigtuna. Joint chairman of session Structural and Dynamic Aspects of Natural and Artificial Photosynthetic Membranes.

7 November. Seminar Redox control of chloroplast thylakoid protein phosphorylation and regulation of light-harvesting function: structural and evolutionary implications. University of Wuerzburg.

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