This session will focus on such topics as photosynthesis, light reactions, photosynthetic carbon fixation and metabolism, artificial photosynthesis and biofuels, plant photoreceptors, light signaling and photomorphogenesis, photochemistry, photomedicine and phototherapy, animal photoreceptors and bioimaging technologies.

Chairs

Dong Yuhui

Researcher, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Li Buhong 

Professor, Hainan University

Invited speakers & reports

Bruno Robert 

Professor, CEA Paris-Saclay Center, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France

Report: Carotenoids: From plant to human photoprotection

Weng Yuxiang

Professor, Institute of Physics, CAS

Report: Cyanobacterial photosynthetic antenna achieves long-lived coherent electronic states through quantum phase synchronization

Song Yin 

Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology

Report: Research on the photoregulatory dynamics of polaritons in light-harvesting systems

He Hao

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Report: Specific control of calcium channels solely by femtosecond laser in vitro and in vivo

Xu Xiaoling

Hangzhou Normal University

Report: Molecular mechanisms of the cyclic electron transport chains of an anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterium roseiflexus castenholzii

Jiang Huaidong

Professor, ShanghaiTech University

Report: Opportunities and challenges brought by FEL and new technologies

Li Mei

Researcher, Institute of Biophysics, CAS

Report: The structural basis for the adaptation of photosystem complexes to environmental regulation

Liu Cheng

Associate researcher, Institute of Botany, CAS

Report: The structure and spectral characteristics of FCP-based light-harvesting antenna of diatoms in different aggregation states

Lin Jie    

Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, CAS

Report: SERS nanobioprobe materials

Wang Pu

Beihang University

Report: Research on protein-protein interaction detection method based on transient absorption