Engineering and Computational Insights into Photosynthesis

The list of sessions, with presenters’ names, elevator pitches, titles, and presentation PDFs, is available below.  This will be supplemented later by summaries and seed questions from session moderators and workshop participants. 

The sessions will continue remotely here in 2026 via video conferences.  

Session #1: DREAM and AC Biology

Maarten SCHOUKENS:

  • Estimating Frequency Response Functions. Link 
  • Nonlinear Systems Identification.  Link
  • Frequency-Domain System Identification: Dronpa2 Case Study. Link

Tim NIES: A comparative overview of system identification approaches for complex phenomena in photosynthesis. Link

  • Alfred HOLZWARTH: Which novel information on non-photochemical quenching and regulation do we get from modulated light measurements?
  • Herbert van AMERONGEN: Identifying and quantifying different processes during induction and relaxation of non-photochemical quenching?  
  • Marcelo ORLANDO:  A frequency domain analysis of NPQ dynamics across different photosynthetic species. Link 
  • Alexander RUBAN: The site and formation of the qE state in plants. Link 
  • Maximiliano CAINZOS: Beyond two-dimensional NPQ: Exploring the spectral properties of NPQ by time-resolved spectroscopy. Link  
  • Yuxi NIU: Plant acclimation to fluctuating light frequencies influences plant antenna size and NPQ dynamics.   
  • Benjamin BAILLEUL: Lecture not available.  
  • Makio YOKONO: Lecture not available.  
  • Radek KAŇA: Thylakoid membrane heterogeneity, proteins trafficking and its role in photosynthetic function. PDF
  • Eleonora MEZZADRELLI: Thylakoid membrane heterogeneity, proteins trafficking and its role in photosynthetic function. PDF
  • Marcelo ORLANDO: Lecture not available.  
  • Uwe RASCHER: Putting Frequency Domain Fluorescence Measurements Into Context: A Short Overview on Commonly Used Fluorescence Approaches. Link 
  • Zuzana BENEDIKTY: The Sound of Photosynthesis: From Signal Patterns and Frequency Analysis to Practical Applications. Link 
  • Andrea LODETTI: Sensing the dynamic response of photosynthesis to abiotic stressors with forced oscillating light.
  • Christof KLUGHAMMER: Measuring chlorophyll fluorescence induction during single turnover flashes in intact leaves. Link 
  • Alexey SHAPIGUZOV: Measuring chlorophyll fluorescence induction during single turnover flashes in intact leaves. Link 
  • David COLLIAUX: Community-driven science for agroecology. Link 
  • David KRAMER: Understanding the responses of photosynthesis under global, real-world dynamic environmental fluctuations using the OpenJII science platform.
  • David COLLIAUX: Introduction to machine learning in the time and frequency domains.
  • Aliénor LAHLOU: Application of machine learning to fluorescence data.