ISPR PRIZE WINNERS PS18 – New Zeeland , 2022

(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

(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

(Award prize money from ISPR sustaining sponsor Springer)

Prof Martin Jonikas
Princeton University (USA)

Awarded for his outstanding work on pirenoids

(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

(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