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Mon. 22 Oct, 2012

Half-time Seminar - Edward Businge

Mon. 22 Oct, 2012 15:00 - 16:00
UPSC Seminar Series
Half-time Seminar

Speaker:
Edward Businge

Title: The regulation of embryo development in conifers

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9, KBC

Tue. 23 Oct, 2012

There are no events on this day.

Wed. 24 Oct, 2012

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Thu. 25 Oct, 2012

Seminar - Martin Hagemann: Evolutionary origin of photorespiration

Thu. 25 Oct, 2012 14:00 - 15:00
Seminar

Speaker:
Martin Hagemann
Universität Rostock, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Abteilung Pflanzenphysiologie

Title
Evolutionary origin of photorespiration: Phylogenetic and biochemical studies of enzymes involved in the 2-phosphoglycolate metabolism

Place: Lilla hörsalen, KB3A9


Abtract:The photorespiratory pathway is essential for organisms performing oxygenic photosynthesis, cyanobacteria, algae and plants, in the present day O2-containing atmosphere. The presence of a plant-like 2-phosphoglycolate cycle in cyanobacteria indicated that not only genes of oxygenic photosynthesis but also genes encoding photorespiratory enzymes were endosymbiotically conveyed from ancient cyanobacteria to eukaryotic oxygenic phototrophs. BlastP analyses with plant photorespiratory proteins identified several proteins in cyanobacteria and algae with surprisingly high sequence similarities. To verify that not only the sequence but also the biochemical activity of these enzymes is conserved, selected proteins from the cyanobacteria Synechocystis PCC 6803, Anabaena PCC 7120 and Cyanothece sp. PCC 7822, as well as from the algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Cyanidioschyzon merolae were overexpressed in E. coli and biochemical analyzed. As examples, data will be presented on our recent analyses of glycolate oxidases and hydroxypyruvate reductase, which allowed to date the origin of photorespiration back to the protoalgae

Fri. 26 Oct, 2012

Thesis Defence - Tania Tibiletti - Department of Chemistry

Fri. 26 Oct, 2012 10:00 - 12:00
Thesis Defence - Tania Tibiletti - Department of Chemistry

Title: Functional studies on the Light-harvesting-Like (LiL) proteins in Cyanobacteria and Cryptophytes

Opponent: Prof. Dr. Martin Hagemann, University of Rostock, Plant Physiology, Germany.

Supervisor: Christiane Funk

Lilla hörsalen , KB3A9

Sat. 27 Oct, 2012

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Sun. 28 Oct, 2012

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