The meeting will take place online on Thursday (March 24th) and Friday (March 25th) 2022 from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. All times are in California Time (PDT). Program for Poster sessions can be found here and here.

Thursday March 24th

8:30 AM (Pacific Time)	Welcome to the Western Photosynthesis Conference 2022	Jan Kern, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Silvia Ramundo, Gregor Mendel Institute
	Session 1: New Frontiers and Methods for Photosynthesis Research	Chair: Jennifer Johnson, Carnegie Institution for Science
8:45	A Pan-Plant Protein Complex Map Reveals Deep Conservation and Novel Assemblies	Claire McWhite, Princeton University
9:05	Functional Reconstitution of a Bacterial CO₂ Concentrating Mechanism in E. coli	Avi Flamholz, California Institute of Technology
9:20	Xanthophyll-Cycle Based Model for Rapid Photoprotection	Audrey Short, University of California, Berkeley
9:35	Structural Dynamics of the Water and Proton Channels in Photosystem II during the S₂->S₃Transition	Philipp Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
	Session 2: Electron Transport and Bioenergy	Chair: Helmut Kirchhoff, Washington State University
9:50	Light-driven Electron Transport in Heliobacteria	Kevin Redding, Arizona State University
10:10	Coffee Break (20 min)
10:30	Energetic Robustness to Large Scale Structural Dynamics in a Photosynthetic Supercomplex	Dvir Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:50	Design Principles of Photosystem II Acclimated to Absorb Far-Red Light	Christopher Gisriel, Yale University
11:05	The Algal CO₂ Concentrating Mechanism is Driven by Alternative Electron Pathways of Photosynthesis	Adrien Burlacot, Carnegie Institution for Science
11:20	LHCII Protein Phosphorylation as a Plant Stress Indicator – Is State Transition Always Beneficial?	Malgorzata Krysiak, University of Warsaw
11:35	Single-Photon Studies of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting	Quanwei Li, University of California, Berkeley
	Session 3: Chloroplast Structure and Function	Chair: Jesse Woodson, University of Arizona
11:55	Systematic Characterization of Genes Required for Photosynthesis	Moshe Kafri, Princeton University
12:10 PM	Lunch Break (45 min)
12:55	Poster Blitz (15 min)
1:10	Poster Session (Presenters with surname A – L)
2:35	Break (15 min)
	Session 3: Chloroplast Structure and Function (continued)
2:50	A Dual-Function Chaperone Coordinates Biogenesis of the Light Harvesting Complex	Shu-ou Shan, California Institute of Technology
3:10	Green algal septin associates with evolutionarily related components of the chloroplast translocon	Samed Delic, Duke University
3:25	Role of Ion Transporters in Thylakoid Architecture Dynamics in Plant Tissue	Roma Mukhopadhyaya, Washington State University
3:40	Life Cycle of a Thylakoid Membrane	Jeffrey Cameron, University of Colorado, Boulder
4:00	Keynote Talk: What are the Prospects for Measuring Photosynthesis from Space?	Joe Berry, Carnegie Institution for Science

Friday March 25th

8:30 AM (Pacific Time)	Keynote Talk: Evolution and evolvability of Photosystem II	Tanai Cardona, Imperial College London
	Session 2: Electron Transport and Bioenergy(continued)	Chair: Helmut Kirchhoff, Washington State University
9:00	Structure and Function of the CO₂ Uptake NDH-1 Complexes in Cyanobacteria	Robert Burnap, Oklahoma State University
9:20	Kinetic Properties of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase and Its Role in Driving Photosynthesis	Asaph Cousins, Washington State University
	Session 4: Photoprotection and Stress Response	Chair: Setsuko Wakao, University of California, Berkeley
9:40	Light Acclimation Interacts with Thylakoid Ion Transport to Govern the Dynamics of Photosynthesis in Arabidopsis	Thekla Von Bismarck, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
9:55	Transcriptional Regulation of Photoprotection in Dark-to-Light Transition – More Than Just a Matter of Light –	Petra Redekop, Carnegie Institution for Science
10:15	Coffee Break (20 minutes)
10:35	Understanding Mechanisms of Thermal Adaptation in a Desert Extremophile Tidestromia Oblongifolia	Sue Rhee, Carnegie Institution for Science
10:55	MEcPP Initiates Stress Signal Transduction from Plastid to Nucleus	Jin-Zheng Wang, University of California, Riverside
11:10	Photosynthesis Dynamics under Moderate and Acute High Temperatures in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	Ru Zhang, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
11:30	Autophagosome Formation is Dispensable to Chloroplast Singlet Oxygen-Mediated Cell Death in Arabidopsis Fc2 Mutant	Matthew Lemke, University of Arizona, Tucson
11:45	Identifying the Genes Responsible for NPQ reversal in Phaeodactylum tricornutum	Maxwell Ware, Colorado State University
12:00 PM	Lunch Break (45 min)
12:45	Poster Blitz (15 min)
1:05	Poster Session (Presenters with surname M – Z)
	Session 3: Chloroplast Structure and Function (continued)	Chair: Jesse Woodson, University of Arizona
2:35	Structural-Function Chloroplast Strategies to Assure Death or Survival in a Biotic or Abiotic Stress	Marina Gavillanes-Ruiz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2:55	Kinetics and Targeting of Vipp1 Aggregation in Cyanobacteria	Colin Gates, Loyola University Chicago
	Session 1: New Frontiers and Methods for Photosynthesis Research (continued)	Chair: Jennifer Johnson, Carnegie Institution for Science
3:10	Photosynthetic and Foliar Phenotypic Plasticity Reflects Adaptation to Different Levels of Environmental Variability	William Adams III, University of Colorado, Boulder
3:25	Shedding Light on the Dimeric Nature of the Primary Acceptor in Photosystem I	Michael Gorka, The Pennsylvania State University
3:40	Quieting a Noisy Light Harvesting Antenna	Nathaniel Gabor, University of California, Riverside
4:00	Break (15 min)
4:15	Announcement of Awards for Best Oral and Poster Presentations, and Concluding Remarks	Jan Kern, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Silvia Ramundo, Gregor Mendel Institute