Biophysical Techniques in Photosynthesis

1. Imaging

1. The Supramolecular Architecture of the Bacterial Photosynthetic Apparatus Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
Simon Scheuring

2. Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy. A Gateway to Photosynthetic Structure
Martin F. Hohmann-Marriott, Allison M. L. Meene, Robert W. Roberson

3. Non-Linear Contrast Mechanisms for Optical Microscopy
Virginijus Barzda

4. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Plants: Water Balance and Water Transport in Relation to Photosynthetic Activity
Henk As, Carel W. Windt

2. Structure

5. Crystallization Methods of Membrane Proteins: Practical Aspects of Crystallizing Plant Light-Harvesting Complexes
Zhenfeng Liu, Wenrui Chang

6. X-ray Crystallography of Photosynthetic Proteins
Petra Fromme, James P. Allen

7. Electron Crystallography in Photosynthesis Research
Paula C. A. Fonseca, Edward P. Morris, Claudia Büchel

8. X-ray Scattering for Bio-Molecule Structure Characterization
David M. Tiede, Xiaobing Zuo

9. Mass Spectrometry-Based Methods for Studying Kinetics and Dynamics in Biological Systems
Lars Konermann, Johannes Messinger, Warwick Hillier

3. Optical Spectroscopy

10. Femtosecond Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy
Marie Louise Groot, Rienk Grondelle

11. Nonlinear Femtosecond Optical Spectroscopy Techniques in Photosynthesis
Donatas Zigmantas, Ying-Zhong Ma, Elizabeth L. Read, Graham R. Fleming

12. (Sub)-Picosecond Spectral Evolution of Fluorescence Studied with a Synchroscan Streak-Camera System and Target Analysis
Ivo H. M. Stokkum, Bart Oort, Frank Mourik, Bas Gobets, Herbert Amerongen

13. Optical Spectroscopy of Individual Light-Harvesting Complexes
Thijs J. Aartsma, Jürgen Köhler

4. Magnetic Resonance

14. High-Field/High-Frequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Involving Single- and Multiple-Transition Schemes
Klaus Möbius, Daniella Goldfarb

15. High-Time Resolution Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of Quantum Beat Oscillations Observed in Photosynthetic Reaction Center Proteins
Gerd Kothe, James R. Norris, Oleg G. Poluektov, Marion C. Thurnauer

16. Distance Measurements in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers by Pulsed EPR
Andrei V. Astashkin, Asako Kawamori

17. Spin Labeling of Photosynthetic Systems
Igor V. Borovykh, Heinz-Jürgen Steinhoff

18. Magic Angle Spinning (MAS) NMR for Structure Determination in Photosynthesis
Huub J. M. Groot

19. Photochemically Induced Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (Photo-CIDNP) Magic-Angle Spinning NMR
Eugenio Daviso, Gunnar Jeschke, Jörg Matysik

5. Theory

20. Calculations of Electrostatic Energies in Proteins Using Microscopic, Semimicroscopic and Macroscopic Models and Free-Energy Perturbation Approaches
William W. Parson, Arieh Warshel

21. Theory of Excitation Energy Transfer and Optical Spectra of Photosynthetic Systems
Thomas Renger, Alfred R. Holzwarth

22. Molecular Dynamics Methods for Bioelectronic Systems in Photosynthesis
Ioan Kosztin, Klaus Schulten

23. Equilibrium and Dynamical Path Integral Methods in Bacterial Photosynthesis
Nancy Makri

24. Density Functional Theory and Car-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics Methods
Francesco Buda

Nyckelord: Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Plant Physiology