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A selection of recent conferences featuring talks by Dr. Ruban:

  • “Optimization of light harvesting by xanthophylls in higher plants”. Light Harvesting and Solar Energy Conversion, International Bunsen discussion meeting, April 2010, Stuttgart, Germany.
  • “Photosynthesis research at Queen Mary” and “The physics of NPQ quencher”. November 2009, First international meeting of EU FP7 “HARVEST” network, Naantali, Finland.
  • "Photoprotective energy dissipation involves the alteration of the terminal emitter chlorophyll energy and configuartion of lutein 1 in intact chloroplasts and isolated light harvesting complexes of photosystem II". March 2009, International Workshop on non-photochemical quenching and photoprotection, Parsberg, Germany.
  • "The role of xanthophylls in the optimisation of light harvesting". March 2009, Light Harvesting Processes, Banz, Germany.
  • “Fluorescence lifetime analysis of molecular events leading to establishment of efficient photoprotective state in the Photosystem II antenna”. October 2008, European LASERLAB User Meeting: Frontiers in the generation of short laser pulses and laser-matter interactions, Heraklion, Greece.
  • “Xanthophyll-modulated control of light harvesting in photosystem II”. July 2008, 1st Queen Mary Photosynthesis Symposium, London.
  • "Molecular events triggering efficient photoprotective energy dissipation in the photosynthetic antenna of plants". November 2007, LASERLAB User Meeting: Frontiers in the generation of short laser pulses and laser-matter interactions, Madrid, Spain.
  • "Molecular events leading to the efficient and flexible energy dissipation in the photosystem II antenna" Photosynthesis Gordon Research Conference June 2008, Mount Holyoke College, Boston, USA.
  • “Spectroscopy of state transitions: analyzing dynamics of antenna cross-section”. July 2007, State Transitions Satellite Meeting of the XIVth International Congress in Photosynthesis, London.
  • "Plasticity of the light harvesting antenna of higher plants: the evidence of resilient design". May 2007, International Conference “Photosystem II macroorganization” in Röjtökmuzsaj. Hungary.
  • “Photoprotective conformational switch in the light harvesting antenna of higher plants”. April 2007, International Symposium on Molecular Response to Electronic Excitation, Bad Münstereifel, Germany.
  • “NPQ without zeaxanthin”. September 2006, International Workshop on the Nonphotochemical Quenching and Photoprotection in photosystem 2, Parsberg, Germany.
  • “Introduction to NPQ. Orientation. Current concepts. Xanthophyll cycle.” September 2006, International Course on photoprotection in photosystem II, Parsberg, Germany.
  • “Plasticity of the light harvesting antenna of higher plants”. September 2006, Vth annual LAMPS meeting, Rothamsted research station, UK.
  • “Molecular events underlying excitation energy control in the photosystem II antenna”, September 2005, XI th Congress of the European Society for Photobiology, Aix-les-Bains, France.
  • Xanthophylls of higher plants: identification, localization and structural properties”, Keynote lecture, July 2005, XIVth International Symposium on Carotenoids, Edinburgh, UK.
  • “Xanthophylls of higher plants: identification, localization and structure”, June 2005, Bioorganic Chemistry Meeting, Chemical Research Center, Budapest, Hungary.
  • “Light harvesting in plants: molecular patterns of adaptability”, August 2004, Session opening lecture at the XIIIth International Congress in Photosynthesis, Montreal, Canada.
  • “Physiological trends in the current research of light harvesting”, May 2004, International meeting on the structure and function of photosystem II. Trento, Italy
  • “Control of the chlorophyll excitation density in the photosynthetic membrane”, March 2004, Annual Society of Experimental Biology Meeting, Edinburgh, UK.
  • “Xanthophylls in photosynthesis of higher plants: identification, localization and dynamics”, October 2003, Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung Seminar “Excited State Processes of Carotenoids in Photosynthesis”, Bad Honnef, Germany.
  • “Excess energy dissipation in diatom algae: photosynthetic antenna with super-NPQ”, October 2003, International conference on tetrapyrrole photoreceptors, Passau, Germany.
  • “Xanthophylls of higher plant photosynthesis: identification, localisation and dynamics”, October 2002, ESF Conference “Femtochemistry and Femtobiology”, Antalya, Turkey.
  • “Fluorescence quenching in isolated light harvesting complexes” October 1999, ESF Conference on the Nonphotochemical Quenching, Rehovot, Israel.