The course took 20 students per year, and included laboratory classes, Solve a research problem , and research projects. Cells A ground level course in the Biology-Geology section of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Photosynthesis A 5-point graduate course put on in Spring 1993. The structure and organisation of photosynthetic systems in relation to their function, regulation, assembly and evolution.
Photosynthesis is the conversion of light energy into chemical potential energy.
Energy transduction takes place in specialised membranes of plants, algae and bacteria. Assimilation of CO2 is tightly coupled to energy transduction in most photosynthetic organisms. The lectures highlighted recent developments in understanding the structure and function of these components and their interactions. Lectures also covered the membrane organisation of photosynthetic systems, with special reference to the chloroplast thylakoid. The molecular and structural basis of regulation of photosynthesis was considered, with the biosynthetic and assembly processes that follow expression of genes encoding the major protein complexes.