ISPR PRIZE WINNERS PS18 – New Zeeland , 2022
Lifetime Achievement Award
(Conferring honorary lifetime membership of ISPR)
Prof Eva-Mari Aro
University of Turku (Finland)
Awarded for her outstanding contribution to understand the molecular mechanism of photosynthetic acclimation
Prof Govindjee
University of Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Awarded for his lifelong contribution to understand photosynthesis and in particulary Photosystem II
Innovation Prize
(Award prize money from ISPR sustaining sponsor LiCor Inc.)
Prof Maureeen Hanson
Cornell University (USA)
and
Prof Martin Perry
University of Lancaster (UK)
Awarded for their successful replacement of Rubisco in tobacco with the enzyme from Synechococcus elongatus
Melvin Calvin-Andrew Benson Award
(Award prize money from ISPR sustaining sponsor Springer)
Prof Martin Jonikas
Princeton University (USA)
Awarded for his outstanding work on pirenoids
Robin Hill Award
(Award prize money from ISPR sustaining sponsor Springer)
Prof Michihiro Suga
Okayama University (Japan)
For his oursending work on on the strcuture of Photosystem II and the mechanism of water oxidation
Poster Prizes
(Award sponsored by Agrisera)
Pierrick Bru Absence of Lhcb6 partially prevents non-photochemical quenching qH to occur, Poster 38
Tanya Skinner Tailoring E. coli expression system for the directed evolution of a golden Rubisco, Poster 101
Soichiro Seki Carotenoid interconversion in LHCII of Codium fragile stimulated by blue-green irradiation, Poster 110
Afshan Begum Elucidating the oligomerisation mechanism of Methanococcoides burtonii Rubisco (MbR), Poster 72