1 October 2026 · GRAMMS
How Far-red Light Tunes Photosystem I
Subrat Kumar Sethy
Computational insight into redox changes on the donor and acceptor sides.
Poster presentation and photographs ↗Talks & presentations
Prof. Matta Kaur has delivered 42 conference and seminar presentations, including 18 invited talks across North America. Her contributions also include session chairing, symposium organization and mentoring.
President’s Update · Teaching philosophy · October 2026
Creating pathways for every learner.
At Brock University’s President’s Update on 8 October 2026, Prof. Divya Matta Kaur shared her teaching philosophy and her work to create diverse opportunities and inclusive pathways for students.
Convocation address · 11 June 2026
Carry the Light Forward
Transformation, mentorship and making possibility visible.
The 2026 address draws a human lesson from photosynthesis: a leaf receives changing conditions, organizes what comes and transforms light into something life-giving. Education can do the same with questions, pressure, mistakes and uncertainty—turning them into knowledge, confidence and possibility.
Its invitation is to begin before feeling completely ready, learn from mentors and then become that person for someone else. Success becomes meaningful when knowledge is used to create clarity, courage, hope and opportunity for others.
“How can I make this room better because I am here?”Prof. Divya Matta Kaur · Convocation 2026
Student presentations
20 August 2026 · Undergraduate Research Symposium
Computational Investigation of Redox Tuning in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Photosystem I
Siya Hariprasad
Presentation and photographs ↗Conference & seminar record
2026
How Photosynthetic Proteins Control Energy Flow
30th Canadian Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry · Ottawa
Computational Insights into Photosystem I Adaptation in Acaryochloris marina
Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition · Frontiers in Biomolecular Simulation Symposium · Toronto
Invited presentation
Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition · Emerging Computational and Theoretical Investigators Symposium · Toronto
Invited keynote
Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference · Woods Hole, Massachusetts
2025
Invited keynote lecture
Center for Research in Molecular Modeling Symposium · Montréal
Invited talk and session chair
Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition · Ottawa
Invited colloquium
Department of Physics, McMaster University · Hamilton
Invited mentorship discussion
10th Annual Biophysical Society of Canada Meeting · Hamilton
2024
Computational studies of photosynthesis
9th Annual Biophysical Society of Canada Meeting · Invited talk and poster judge · Montréal
Charge-transfer studies in photosynthetic reaction centres
Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition · Invited talk and EDI symposium organizer · Winnipeg
Invited talk
Canadian Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry · Halifax · Declined during parental leave
2023
Theoretical studies of photosynthetic reaction centres
Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition · Vancouver
Electron–proton transfer in photosynthetic reaction centres
Concordia University invited seminar · Montréal
Invited seminar
Indian Institute of Science · Bengaluru
Light-driven electron and proton transfer in photosynthetic proteins
Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Seminar Series
2022
Heterodimeric special-pair formation in heliobacterial reaction centres
Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference · Woods Hole, Massachusetts
2021
Proton egress pathways surrounding the oxygen-evolving complex of Photosystem II
Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference · Invited talk · Virtual
Photosynthetic reaction-centre seminar
Brock University · St. Catharines