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NEW:<\/strong> Click here<\/a><\/em> to download the schedule<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n ICRP2026 Program Schedule<\/title>\n <style>\n body {\n font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\n line-height: 1.5;\n margin: 20px;\n background-color: #f5f5f5;\n }\n\n h1 {\n text-align: center;\n color: #1a3d7c;\n margin-bottom: 40px;\n }\n\n .day {\n padding: 20px;\n border-radius: 12px;\n margin-bottom: 20px;\n box-shadow: 0 2px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);\n }\n\n \/* Alternanza dei colori per giorno *\/\n .day.day1, .day.day1-part { background-color: #e8f0fe; }\n .day.day2, .day.day2-part { background-color: #fef8e8; }\n .day.day3, .day.day3-part { background-color: #e8f0fe; }\n .day.day4, .day.day4-part { background-color: #fef8e8; }\n .day.day5, .day.day5-part { background-color: #e8f0fe; }\n .day.day6 { background-color: #fef8e8; }\n\n .day-header {\n display: flex;\n justify-content: space-between;\n align-items: center;\n margin-bottom: 15px;\n }\n\n .day-header h2 {\n color: #2a7ae2;\n font-size: 1.6em;\n margin: 0;\n }\n\n .badge {\n background-color: #ffb74d;\n color: white;\n padding: 5px 12px;\n border-radius: 20px;\n font-size: 0.9em;\n font-weight: bold;\n }\n\n ul.session {\n list-style-type: none;\n padding-left: 0;\n }\n\n ul.session li {\n background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7);\n padding: 10px 14px;\n margin-bottom: 8px;\n border-left: 5px solid #2a7ae2;\n border-radius: 5px;\n }\n\n hr {\n border: none;\n border-top: 2px dashed #ccc;\n margin: 40px 0;\n }\n\n ul.session li strong {\n color: #1a3d7c;\n }\n\n .time {\n font-weight: bold;\n color: #555;\n display: inline-block;\n min-width: 90px;\n }\n\n .talk-type {\n font-weight: bold;\n color: #2a7ae2;\n margin-right: 5px;\n }\n\n .speaker {\n font-weight: bold;\n color: #1a3d7c;\n }\n\n \/* Stile per sotto-programma della conference dinner *\/\n ul.sub-session {\n margin-top: 8px;\n margin-left: 20px; \n list-style-type: disc; \n background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.4); \n padding: 8px 15px; \n border-radius: 5px;\n }\n <\/style>\n\n\n\n <h1>ICRP 2026 – Final Program<\/h1>\n\n <!-- September 14 -->\n <div class=\"day day1\">\n <div class=\"day-header\">\n <h2>September 14 (Monday)<\/h2>\n <span class=\"badge\">Morning<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"session\">\n <li>\n <span class=\"time\">10:00 – 13:00<\/span> <strong>Conference Junior Session<\/strong><br>\n <em>Chairs \/ Organizers:<\/em> Filippo Sacchetta and Riccardo Carletti<br>\n <em>Title:<\/em> Computational Photobiology for Graduate Students and Postdocs: A discussion of Methods and Case Studies\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"day day1-part\">\n <div class=\"day-header\">\n <h2>September 14 (Monday)<\/h2>\n <span class=\"badge\">Afternoon\/Evening<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"session\">\n <li>\n <span class=\"time\">14:00 – 14:20<\/span> <strong>Conference Opening<\/strong> (M. Olivucci, A. Watts, S. Braslavsky, K. Inoue)\n <\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION A. Photochemistry and Spectroscopy I<\/strong> (Chair: Watts)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">14:20 – 15:00<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Keynote]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">J. Heberle<\/span> \u2013 <em>The contribution of infrared spectroscopy to the understanding of retinal proteins – an interdisciplinary and personal perspective<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:00 – 15:30<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">L. Pedraza-Gonz\u00e1lez<\/span> \u2013 <em>What controls excitation energy transfer in xanthophyll-binding microbial rhodopsins? Structural and spectroscopic insights from multiscale modeling<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:30 – 15:40<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">R. McDowell<\/span> \u2013 <em>How is protonation of the retinal Schiff base stabilised in melanopsin?<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:40 – 15:45<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">Z. Lyu<\/span> \u2013 <em>Mechanistic insights into indole-3-acetate-dependent modulation of the outward proton-pumping<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:45 – 16:15<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited (online)]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">I. Guschin<\/span> \u2013 <em>Engineering of soluble microbial rhodopsin analogs<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">16:15 – 16:40<\/span> <strong>Coffee Break<\/strong><\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION B. Biology, Diversity and Evolution I<\/strong> (Chair: Sakmar)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">16:40 – 17:20<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Keynote]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">B. Chang<\/span> \u2013 <em>Molecular Evolution of Visual Adaptations<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">17:20 – 17:50<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">M. Del Carmen<\/span> \u2013 <em>Novel light-driven schizorhodopsins from Antarctic Minisyncoccota (Patescibacteria) and cyanobacteria<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">17:50 – 18:00<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">G. Castiglione<\/span> \u2013 <em>Rhodopsin moonlights as a tunable capacitor buffering the toxic, desensitizing retinoids of the vertebrate eye<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">18:00 – 18:05<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">M. Sela<\/span> \u2013 <em>Design of Rhodopsin Variants with Targeted Absorption Maxima Using Deep Generative Models<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">18:05 – 18:35<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited (online)]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">A. Marchetti<\/span> \u2013 <em>Proton-pumping rhodopsin contributions to energy production under varying light quality in Southern Ocean diatoms<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">18:35 – 19:30<\/span> <strong>Poster Session I<\/strong> (Poster 1 a 31)<\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">19:30 – 22:00<\/span> <strong>Welcome Reception<\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <hr>\n\n <!-- September 15 -->\n <div class=\"day day2\">\n <div class=\"day-header\">\n <h2>September 15 (Tuesday)<\/h2>\n <span class=\"badge\">Morning<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"session\">\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION C. Photochemistry and Spectroscopy II<\/strong> (Chair: Wachtveitl)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">08:30 – 09:10<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Keynote]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">H. Kandori<\/span> \u2013 <em>Channel and Pump Rhodopsins<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:10 – 09:40<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">K. Inoue<\/span> \u2013 <em>AI-driven Exploration of Functional Rhodopsins<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:40 – 09:45<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">R. Misra<\/span> \u2013 <em>Elucidating Structure and Function of a Novel Dinoflagellate Bestrhodopsin<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:45 – 10:15<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">A. Bochenkova<\/span> \u2013 <em>Accurate excited-state potentials and dynamics of retinal proteins: from the gas phase to the protein solution<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">10:15 – 10:40<\/span> <strong>Coffee Break<\/strong><\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION D. Biology, Diversity and Evolution II<\/strong> (Chair: Terakita)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">10:40 – 11:10<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">T. Morizumi<\/span> \u2013 <em>Structural Insights into Xenopus Blue-Sensitive SWS2 Opsin<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:10 – 11:15<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">H. Takahashi<\/span> \u2013 <em>Identification of two key amino acid residues determining UV and visible absorption in Apusomonad rhodopsin from Singekia franciliensis<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:15 – 11:20<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">K. Fujimoto<\/span> \u2013 <em>Computational Insights into Protein-Controlled Chromophore Interactions in Microbial Rhodopsins<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:20 – 11:50<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">L. G\u00f3mez-Consarnau<\/span> \u2013 <em>Microbial Rhodopsins in the Global Ocean: An Environmental Perspective<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:50 – 12:20<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">T. Yamashita<\/span> \u2013 <em>Spectral tuning of UV-sensitive vertebrate non-visual opsin Opn5<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">12:20 – 12:50<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">V. H. Albarrac\u00edn<\/span> \u2013 <em>Light-driven adaptations in extreme andean microbiomes: the hidden diversity of microbial rhodopsins<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">12:50 – 14:00<\/span> <strong>Lunch<\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"day day2-part\">\n <div class=\"day-header\">\n <h2>September 15 (Tuesday)<\/h2>\n <span class=\"badge\">Afternoon<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"session\">\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION E. Photochemistry and Spectroscopy III<\/strong> (Chair: Bondar)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">14:00 – 14:40<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Keynote]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">B. Mennucci<\/span> \u2013 <em>Photoreceptors: Bridging Electronic Excitations to Functional Response through Multiscale Simulations<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">14:40 – 15:10<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">K. Heine<\/span> \u2013 <em>Electric-field jump triggers a protein response preceeding the ultrafast photoisomerization<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:10 – 15:20<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">S. Haacke<\/span> \u2013 <em>Ultrafast Stark shift of Trp absorption probes retinal’s excited state dipole moment in Archaerhodopsin-3<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:20 – 15:25<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">D. Carrasco-Busturia<\/span> \u2013 <em>Multiphoton Absorption Spectra of Channelrhodopsin-2 via Multiscale Simulation Methods<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:25 – 15:35<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">D. Nikolaev<\/span> \u2013 <em>Engineering of archaerhodopsin-3-based fluorescent genetically encoded voltage indicators<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:35 – 16:05<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">M. Garavelli<\/span> \u2013 <em>Modelling of Coherence and Photoactive-Modes Sensitive X-ray Spectroscopies in a Retinal Photoisomerization Model<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">16:05 – 16:30<\/span> <strong>Coffee Break<\/strong><\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION F. Structural Biology, Synthetic Biology and Physiology I<\/strong> (Chair: Schertler)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">16:30 – 17:10<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Keynote]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">K. Palczewski<\/span> \u2013 <em>The Eye’s Gatekeeper: The Structure and Logic of Rhodopsin<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">17:10 – 17:40<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">W. Huang<\/span> \u2013 <em>Artificial photosynthesis based on rhodopsin<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">17:40 – 17:50<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">H. Kato<\/span> \u2013 <em>Development of NOAH\/ARK1, a Structural Analysis Platform for Animal Rhodopsins, Reveals Molecular Mechanisms of Non-visual Opsins<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">17:50 – 17:55<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">S.-G. Cho<\/span> \u2013 <em>Heliorhodopsin PRISM: Functional Coupling of an ABC Transporter to Retinal-Related Substrate Handling<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">17:55 – 18:25<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">Y. Chii-Shen<\/span> \u2013 <em>Protein cinematographic analysis unveils the structural mechanism conferring the unique acid-tolerance properties of HwBR<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">18:25 – 18:55<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">F. Fanelli<\/span> \u2013 <em>Structural Network Analysis of Rhodopsin Mutants and Development of Therapeutic Pharmacological Chaperones<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <hr>\n\n <!-- September 16 -->\n <div class=\"day day3\">\n <div class=\"day-header\">\n <h2>September 16 (Wednesday)<\/h2>\n <span class=\"badge\">Morning<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"session\">\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION G. Biology, Diversity and Evolution III<\/strong> (Chair: Jung)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">08:30 – 09:10<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Keynote]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">P. Hegemann<\/span> \u2013 <em>SEEING RED by Algae, Fungi and Mantis Shrimp<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:10 – 09:40<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">T. Oakley<\/span> \u2013 <em>An Opsin Genotype-Phenotype Map Reveals Path-Dependent Functional Evolution of Animal Color Sensitivity<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:40 – 09:50<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">M. Broser<\/span> \u2013 <em>Structure of the 7-cis Retinal Chromophore in the UV-absorbing Photoproduct of Neorhodopsin<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:50 – 09:55<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">A. Chazan<\/span> \u2013 <em>Shedding light on rhodopsin-mediated phototrophy<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:55 – 10:25<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">A. Rozenberg<\/span> \u2013 <em>Dissecting microbial rhodopsins diversity<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">10:25 – 10:50<\/span> <strong>Coffee Break<\/strong><\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION H. Optogenetics and other Applications I<\/strong> (Chair: Karunarathne)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">10:50 – 11:20<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">J. Geiger<\/span> \u2013 <em>A Designed Retinal-Bound Fluorescent Protein Based on an hCRBPII Template<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:20 – 11:25<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">M. Paolino<\/span> \u2013 <em>Designing Xanthopsin Mimics via Site-Specific Click-Functionalization of a Retinoic Acid Binding Protein Platform<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:25 – 11:30<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">M. Ooka<\/span> \u2013 <em>Residue-Specific Assignment of Peptide Backbone Vibrations in KR2 by Lysine Isotope Labeling<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:30 – 11:35<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">S. Gao<\/span> \u2013 <em>When Channelopsins Miss Retinal: Intrinsic Ion Conductance of Apo-Channelopsins<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:35 – 12:05<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">A. Walker<\/span> \u2013 <em>Multiscale Simulations of Fluorescent Proteins for Rational Design<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">12:05 – 12:35<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">K. Kovalev<\/span> \u2013 <em>On structural model quality<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">12:35 – 14:00<\/span> <strong>Lunch<\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"day day3-part\">\n <div class=\"day-header\">\n <h2>September 16 (Wednesday)<\/h2>\n <span class=\"badge\">Afternoon<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"session\">\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION I. Photochemistry and Spectroscopy IV<\/strong> (Chair: Braslavsky)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">14:00 – 14:30<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">M. Ryazantsev<\/span> \u2013 <em>From voltage-dependent fluorescence mechanism elucidation to engineering of novel archaerhodopsin-3-based genetically encoded voltage indicators<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">14:30 – 15:00<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">S. Ruhman<\/span> \u2013 <em>Comparative survey of impulsive vibrational spectroscopy in diverse microbial retinal proteins<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:00 – 15:10<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">A. Hilditch<\/span> \u2013 <em>De novo design of retinal-based photoswitches<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:10 – 15:15<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">D. Hashimoto<\/span> \u2013 <em>Establishment of an AI- and Robotics-Assisted Experimental Pipeline for Protein Function Modeling and Optimization Using CapChR2<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:15 – 15:45<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">N. Ferr\u00e9<\/span> \u2013 <em>Modulating retinal photochemistry with pH or a static electric field<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:45 – 16:10<\/span> <strong>Coffee Break<\/strong><\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION J. Optogenetics and other Applications II<\/strong> (Chair: Ernst)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">16:10 – 16:40<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">D. Brinks<\/span> \u2013 <em>Voltage imaging with rhodopsin-based genetically encoded voltage indicators: Development and Applications<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">16:40 – 17:10<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited (online)]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">R. Liang<\/span> \u2013 <em>Elucidating Photochemical Structure-Activity Relationships in Photopharmacology via Multiscale Simulations<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">17:10 – 17:15<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">A. Kolesnikov<\/span> \u2013 <em>Rhodopsin expression renders mammalian M-cones resistant to retinoid deficiency in LCA2 model<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">17:15 – 17:20<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">P. Pirih<\/span> \u2013 <em>Reflection spectroscopy of LW rhodopsin\/metarhodopsin in living butterflies<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">17:20 – 17:30<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">A. Karunarathne<\/span> \u2013 <em>Tuning the Subcellular Localization, Spectral Properties, and Signaling Mechanisms of Mammalian Opsins<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">17:30 – 17:35<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">Y. Sakai<\/span> \u2013 <em>Spectroscopic properties and intracellular signalling of self-regenerating opsin from the reef-building coral<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">17:35 – 18:05<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">R. Stipp<\/span> \u2013 <em>“Rhodopsinizing” the \u03b22-adrenergic receptor using a synthetic efficacy photoswitch<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">18:05 – 18:35<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">Y. Sudo<\/span> \u2013 <em>Proton-pumping microbial rhodopsins for optogenetic manipulation in living cells<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">18:35 – 19:30<\/span> <strong>Poster Session II<\/strong> (Poster 32 a 63)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <hr>\n\n <!-- September 17 -->\n <div class=\"day day4\">\n <div class=\"day-header\">\n <h2>September 17 (Thursday)<\/h2>\n \n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"session\">\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION K. Structural Biology, Synthetic Biology and Physiology II<\/strong> (Chair: Isaikina)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">08:30 – 09:10<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Keynote]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">E. Govorunova<\/span> \u2013 <em>Channelrhodopsin Research: Outcomes and Perspectives<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:10 – 09:40<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">K. Katayama<\/span> \u2013 <em>Structural basis of spectral tuning in primate cone visual pigments<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:40 – 09:50<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">S. Ohashi<\/span> \u2013 <em>Structural insights into pore-mediated retinal exchange and chromophore dynamics in cone visual pigments<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:50 – 09:55<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">I. Kawamura<\/span> \u2013 <em>Ultrafast Magic-Angle Spinning Enables High-Resolution \u00b9H-Detected Solid-State NMR of Schizorhodopsin 1 in Lipid Bilayers<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:55 – 10:25<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">K. Forest<\/span> \u2013 <em>A Role for Microbial Opsins in Building the Membrane Bilayer<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">10:25 – 10:50<\/span> <strong>Coffee Break<\/strong><\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION L. Photochemistry and Spectroscopy V<\/strong> (Chair: Ferr\u00e9)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">10:50 – 11:20<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">A. Rasmussen<\/span> \u2013 <em>Gas-phase studies of the protonated Schiff-base retinal chromophore<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:20 – 11:30<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">F. Sacchetta<\/span> \u2013 <em>QM\/MM Counterion Diffusion for Electrostatic Control of Photochemical Properties<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:30 – 11:35<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">S. Inukai<\/span> \u2013 <em>Spectroscopic detection of sodium ion binding in the Gs-coupled jellyfish rhodopsin<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:35 – 11:40<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">P. Nag<\/span> \u2013 <em>Exploring the unusual photoreaction in neorhodopsin<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:40 – 12:10<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">M. Konno<\/span> \u2013 <em>Photochemical Properties of Novel Sensory-type Rhodopsins<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">12:10 – 12:40<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">H. Kuramochi<\/span> \u2013 <em>Tracking Isomerization and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Rhodopsins by Ultrafast Spectroscopy Using Few-Cycle Pulses<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">12:40 – 19:30<\/span> <strong>Lunch and Free Afternoon in Siena<\/strong><\/li>\n <li>\n <span class=\"time\">19:30 – 21:20<\/span> <strong>Conference Dinner<\/strong>\n <\/li>\n <li>\n <span class=\"time\">21:20 – 22:30<\/span> <strong>After-Dinner Talk<\/strong> (Olivucci, Jung)\n <ul class=\"sub-session\">\n <li>Poster Prizes<\/li>\n <li>Announcement of ICRP2028<\/li>\n <li>Acknowledgements<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <hr>\n\n <!-- September 18 -->\n <div class=\"day day5\">\n <div class=\"day-header\">\n <h2>September 18 (Friday)<\/h2>\n <span class=\"badge\">Morning<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"session\">\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION M. Biology, Diversity and Evolution III<\/strong> (Chair: Li\u00e9nard)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">08:30 – 09:10<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Keynote]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">O. B\u00e9j\u00e0<\/span> \u2013 <em>How diverse are microbial rhodopsins?<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:10 – 09:40<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">M. Koyanagi<\/span> \u2013 <em>Dragonfly red opsins: Spectral tuning, evolution, and potential as near-infrared-sensitive optogenetic tools<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:40 – 09:50<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">S. Musilova<\/span> \u2013 <em>From rods to super-rods: extreme rhodopsin evolution in deep-sea fishes<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:50 – 09:55<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">S. Kuraku<\/span> \u2013 <em>Shark genomics shed light on the deep-sea vision of the world’s biggest fish: identification of spectral tuning residues 94 and 178 in rhodopsin<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">09:55 – 10:00<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">A. Beyer<\/span> \u2013 <em>Ancestral Rhodopsins and Retinal-Based Phototrophy as Exoplanet Surface Biosignatures<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">10:00 – 10:30<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">M. Guido<\/span> \u2013 <em>When Glia Sense Light: Blue-Light Signaling as a Regulator of Retinal Developmental Plasticity<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">10:30 – 10:55<\/span> <strong>Coffee Break<\/strong><\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION N. Structural Biology, Synthetic Biology and Physiology III<\/strong> (Chair: Haacke)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">10:55 – 11:25<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">S. L. Schmidt<\/span> \u2013 <em>Unravelling rapid kinetics driving human daylight vision<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:25 – 11:35<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">P. Robinson<\/span> \u2013 <em>AlphaFold-guided engineering of melanopsin-chemogenetic receptors improves G-protein signaling fidelity<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:35 – 11:40<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">A. Sampaoli<\/span> \u2013 <em>Protonation-controlled photophysics of TAT Rhodopsin across fourteen orders of magnitude in time<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">11:40 – 12:10<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">K. Gerwert<\/span> \u2013 <em>The bacteriorhodopsin movie: proton transfer via key residues and single water molecules<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">12:10 – 12:40<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">M. Shalev-Benami<\/span> \u2013 <em>Spectral Tuning and Photoswitching in Non-Visual Bistable Opsins<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">12:40 – 14:00<\/span> <strong>Lunch<\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"day day5-part\">\n <div class=\"day-header\">\n <h2>September 18 (Friday)<\/h2>\n <span class=\"badge\">Afternoon<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"session\">\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION O. Photochemistry and Spectroscopy V<\/strong> (Chair: Olivucci)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">14:00 – 14:30<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">J. Kennis<\/span> \u2013 <em>Reaction Dynamics and Mechanisms of Bistable Opsins<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">14:30 – 15:00<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">Y. Furutani<\/span> \u2013 <em>Molecular Mechanisms of Proton and Ion Pump Rhodopsins Revealed by Light-Induced FTIR Spectroscopy<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:00 – 15:10<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">X. Yang<\/span> \u2013 <em>Protein-Controlled Excited-State Dynamics Govern Quantum Efficiency in Visual Rhodopsins<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:10 – 15:15<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">M. Kloz<\/span> \u2013 <em>Excited-State Manifold of Retinal and Its Derivatives Analyzed by Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:15 – 15:45<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">I. Schapiro<\/span> \u2013 <em>Removing One Proton: How Deprotonation Reshapes Retinal Schiff Base Photochemistry<\/em><\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">15:45 – 16:15<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">L.M. Frutos<\/span> \u2013 <em>Mechanical control of retinal photochemistry: excitation energies, quantum yields and opsin forces<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li><span class=\"time\">16:15 – 16:40<\/span> <strong>Coffee Break<\/strong><\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>SESSION P. Structural Biology, Synthetic Biology and Physiology IV<\/strong> (Chair: Standfuss)\n <ul class=\"session\" style=\"margin-top: 8px;\">\n <li><span class=\"time\">16:40 – 16:50<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed A]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">K. Kojima<\/span> \u2013 <em>Light-sensitive opsins in eyeless nematodes: A dual-opsin system mediates phototactic behavior in an insect parasite<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"time\">16:50 – 16:55<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Contributed B]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">C.-J. Tsai<\/span> \u2013 <em>Conformational ensembles of rhodopsin-G protein complexes reveal light perception and GPCR\nsignaling mechanisms<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"time\">16:55 – 17:25<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">V. Panneels<\/span> \u2013 <em>The missing link: early Meta states of rhodopsin reveal the light transduction mechanism for\nvision<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"time\">17:25 – 17:55<\/span> <span class=\"talk-type\">[Invited]<\/span> <span class=\"speaker\">H. Sun<\/span> \u2013 <em>Atomistic understanding of ion selectivity and conductivity of channelrhodopsins from molecular\ndynamics simulations<\/em><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n<ul class=\"session\">\n <li>\n <span class=\"time\">17:55 – 18:30<\/span> <strong>Conclusion<\/strong> (Olivucci, Jung, Organizing Committee)\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n\n <hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW: Click here to download the schedule ICRP2026 Program Schedule ICRP 2026 – Final Program September 14 (Monday) Morning 10:00 – 13:00 Conference Junior Session Chairs \/ Organizers: Filippo Sacchetta and Riccardo Carletti Title: Computational Photobiology for Graduate Students and Postdocs: A discussion of Methods and Case Studies September 14 (Monday) Afternoon\/Evening 14:00 – 14:20 … <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congressi.unisi.it\/retinalproteins2026\/program\/\" class=\"more-link\">Leggi tutto<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"kubio_ai_page_context":{"short_desc":"","purpose":"general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congressi.unisi.it\/retinalproteins2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congressi.unisi.it\/retinalproteins2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congressi.unisi.it\/retinalproteins2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congressi.unisi.it\/retinalproteins2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congressi.unisi.it\/retinalproteins2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.congressi.unisi.it\/retinalproteins2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/www.congressi.unisi.it\/retinalproteins2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congressi.unisi.it\/retinalproteins2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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