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CyanoNetwork Workshop 2012

nospam@example.com (Administrator ) — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:00:00 +0200

3rd CyanoNetwork workshop was held from 8th until 11th May 2012 in Mikulov, Czech Republic.

Following workgroups have been formed:

WG 1: Photobioreactor/Ocean to Cell

WG 2: Photosyntesis and CCM

WG 3: Metabolism - stoichiometry

WG 4: Computation and annotation

2nd CyanoWorkshop at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

nospam@example.com (Administrator ) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:25:45 +0200

From 28th to 30th June 2011 second informal meeting of CyanoTeam was held. New version of e-photosynthesis.org was presented there. Directions towards a comprehensive cyanobacteria model were discussed.

Presentation at Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis

nospam@example.com (Administrator ) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:20:16 +0200

On Wednesday 15th June 2011 the current stable version of e-photosynthesis was presented at an internationally high-acclaimed Gordon research conference focused on photosynthesis. Please follow this link for more information.

Harvest Network Course: "Systems Biology of Photosynthesis"

nospam@example.com (Administrator ) — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:48:57 +0100

The HARVEST Network Course "Systems Biology of Photosynthesis" was held in Brno, April 1-6, 2011. It has immediately preceeded the HARVEST International Workshop Mechanisms of Non-photochemical Quenching (registration site) in Passau and bus transport, including lunch in Český Krumlov, was provided.

The program of the course can be found here.

The course consisted of three elements: an introduction to systems biology in general (Sun, April 3), scientific talks from researchers working on computational or mathematical models of photosynthesis or photosynthetic organisms (Mon, April 4), and an experimental part at the PSI factory in Drasov (Sat, April 2 and Tue, April 5) where we will measure fluorescence of fast PS kinetics (OJIP) and/or O2/CO2/bicarbonate concentrations in Arabidposis mutants and a cyanobacterial bioreactor culture, each cultivated under a diurnal light regime.

On the tutorial day, Sun April 3, a broad range of topics from basic introduction to modeling in biology to advanced mathematical concepts from the field of dynamic systems modeling has been lectured, including cut topics such as metabolic network analysis. In the afternoon hands-on modeling session has been organized based on different available tools (CellDesigner, Copasi, SOSlib, e-photosynthesis, BIOCHAM, PRISM).

The experimental part started with an introduction on Sat, April 2, afternoon at the PSI factory after the "Innovation Strategies" course. A time-course experiment over three diurnal cycles was finalized on Tue, April 5. On Tuesday afternoon the students tried to interpret the logged online data and the manually acquired data in terms of existing mathematical models.