ISPR PRIZE WINNERS PS18 – New Zealand, 2022

(Conferring honorary lifetime membership of ISPR)

Prof Eva-Mari Aro

University of Turku (Finland)
Awarded for her outstanding contribution to our understanding of the molecular mechanism of photosynthetic acclimation

Prof Govindjee

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Awarded for his lifelong contribution to understand photosynthesis and in particular Photosystem II

(Award prize money from ISPR sustaining sponsor LI-COR Biosciences)

Prof Maureen Hanson
Cornell University (USA)

and

Prof Martin Parry
University of Lancaster (UK)

Awarded for their successful replacement of Rubisco in tobacco with the enzyme from Synechococcus elongatus

(Award prize money from ISPR sustaining sponsor Springer)

Prof Martin Jonikas
Princeton University (USA)

Awarded for his outstanding work on pyrenoids

(Award prize money from ISPR sustaining sponsor Springer)

Prof Michihiro Suga
Okayama University (Japan)

For his outstanding work on the structure of Photosystem II and the mechanism of water oxidation

(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