2012 Quantum Effects in Biological Systems

Workshop | June 4 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m. |  Stanley Hall

Organizer: K. Birgitta Whaley, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Organizer: Mohan Sarovar, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore

Sponsor: Department of Chemistry

The fourth in the annual "Quantum Effects in Biological Systems" workshops, this meeting will cover the latest developments in the inter-disciplinary field studying quantum mechanical effects in biological and chemical structures central to life. This year's workshop will be a three-day meeting with invited presentations, contributed presentations and a poster session covering a variety of topics including: (1) Energy and charge transfer in photosynthetic light harvesting
(2) Magnetoreception in animals
(3) Quantum tunneling phenomena in chemical and biological systems
(4) Vibrational assisted theory of olfaction
(5) Single molecule spectroscopy of biologically relevant systems
(6) Electro-chemical processes in neuroscience

Invited Speakers include:

Paul Brumer (University of Toronto)
Dmitri Chklovskii (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Roberta Croce (University of Groningen)
Jahan Dawlaty (University of California, Berkeley)
Matthew Francis (University of California, Berkeley)
Rienk van Grondelle (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Niek van Hulst (ICFO Barcelona)
Judith Klinman (University of California,Berkeley)
Henrik Mouritsen (University of Oldenburg)
Klaus Schulten (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Spiros Skourtis (University of Cyprus)
Luca Turin (Fleming Institute, Athens)

Event Contact: 510-643-0572