报告题目：Unravelling the Structure of the Water Splitting Site of Photosynthesis and Implications for Mechanism of Catalysis
    报告人：James Barber FRS
            英国皇家学会会员   Imperial College London
    时间：1月20日 10：00
    地点：实验楼报告厅
    联系人:张立新研究员(zhanglixin@ibcas.ac.cn)

报告人简介：
    James (Jim) Barber is the Ernst Chain Professor Biochemistry at Imperial College London, working on the molecular processes of photosynthesis. After graduating from the University of Wales in Chemistry he gained a MSc and PhD in Biophysics from the University of East Anglia. After a postdoctoral year in Holland he joined the academic staff at Imperial College London as a Lecturer in 1968. He was promoted to Professor in 1979. In 1988-89 he was Dean of the Royal College of Science, and from 1989 to 1999 was Head of the Biochemistry Department at Imperial College. Much of his research has focused on the reactions and proteins involved in the photochemically driven splitting of water and has contributed greatly to this subject by elucidating the structure of the catalytic centre for this reaction. He was elected to the European Academy (Academia Europaea) in 1988 and awarded an Honory Doctors degree of Stockholm University in 1992. In 2002 he was awarded the Flintoff Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry and in 2003, was elected as a Foreign Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. Two years later he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society and awarded the 2005 Italgas Prize for energy and the environment. He was the winner of the 2006 Novartis Medal and Prize of the Biochemical Society and in 2007 awarded the Wheland Medal and Prize by the University of Chicago. In 2008 he gave the Arnon Lecture at UC Berkeley and was the Lee Kuan Yew Distiguished Lecturer in Singapore.
    He has published over 600 research and review articles and produced 14 books covering various aspects of photosynthesis research.

selected publications:
    Architecture of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving center.Ferreira KN, Iverson TM, Maghlaoui K, Barber J, Iwata S. Science. 2004 Mar 19;303(5665):1831-8. Epub 2004 Feb 5.
    Low-light-adapted Prochlorococcus species possess specific antennae for each photosystem.Bibby TS, Mary I, Nield J, Partensky F, Barber J. Nature. 2003 Aug 28;424(6952):1051-4.
    Iron deficiency induces the formation of an antenna ring around trimeric photosystem I in cyanobacteria.Bibby TS, Nield J, Barber J. Nature. 2001 Aug 16;412(6848):743-5.
    Three-dimensional structure of the plant photosystem II reaction centre at 8 A resolution.Rhee KH, Morris EP, Barber J, Kühlbrandt W. Nature. 1998 Nov 19;396(6708):283-6.

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