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Physical Principles of Photosynthesis - NBCM033
Title: Fyzikální základy fotosyntézy
Guaranteed by: Department of Chemical Physics and Optics (32-KCHFO)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2020
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Jakub Pšenčík, Ph.D.
Mgr. Jan Alster, Ph.D.
Classification: Physics > Biophysics and Chemical Physics
Annotation -
Last update: PSENCIK/MFF.CUNI.CZ (10.01.2008)
Overview of photosynthetic processes. Photosynthetic pigments and their physical properties, excitonic interactions. Function of photosynthetic light harvesting systems: photon capture and excitation energy transfer. Function of photosynthetic reaction centres: charge separation and electron transfer. Electron transport chain, cyclic and non-cyclic electron transfer. Energy transduction in membranes. Non-photochemical quenching. Carbon metabolism. Evolution of photosynthesis.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Jakub Pšenčík, Ph.D. (14.05.2020)

Oral exam in the extent of the syllabus

Literature - Czech
Last update: PSENCIK/MFF.CUNI.CZ (21.12.2007)

1. Blankenship: Molecular mechanisms of photosynthesis, Blackwell Science

2. Cramer, Knaff: Energy Transduction in Biological Membranes, Springer-Verlag

3. Mathews, van Holde, Ahern: Biochemistry, Addison-Wesley

4. Šetlík, Hála: Biofyzika fotosyntézy, připraveno k tisku

5. van Amerongen, Valkunas, van Grondelle: Photosynthetic excitons, Word Scientific

Syllabus -
Last update: PSENCIK/MFF.CUNI.CZ (10.01.2008)

Overview of photosynthetic processes. Photosynthetic pigments and their physical properties, excitonic interactions. Function of photosynthetic light harvesting systems: photon capture and excitation energy transfer. Function of photosynthetic reaction centres: charge separation and electron transfer. Electron transport chain, cyclic and non-cyclic electron transfer. Energy transduction in membranes. Non-photochemical quenching. Carbon metabolism. Evolution of photosynthesis.

 
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