U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Structural Basis of Information Transfer and Energy Transduction in Rhodopsins

美日联合研讨会：视紫红质信息传递和能量转换的结构基础

• 批准号: 9513078
• 负责人: Janos Lanyi
• 金额: $ 2.2万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-04-01 至 1998-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9513078&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Japan; Joint; Seminar; Structural

9513078 Lanyi This award supports the participation of 14 U.S. scientists in a U.S.-Japan seminar on the Structural Basis of Information and Energy Transduction in Retinal Proteins, to be held in Kyoto, Japan, from March 16-20, 1997. The co- organizers are Professors Janos K. Lanyi of the University of California, Irvine and Akio Maeda of the University of Kyoto. The purpose of this seminar is to assess recent progress in understanding the structural basis for the function of retinal proteins. These proteins are currently under intense investigation because they participate in energy and information transfer, both essential for life. Leading researchers from the U.S. and Japan will interact and exchange ideas so as to develop new concepts and experimental approaches to study retinal proteins as light receptors. Specifically, the seminar will include topics on excited state dynamics, photochemical reaction kinetics, protein conformation changes, proton conduction mechanisms, thermodynamics, signal transduction in vision and in phototaxis, and photosensors based on retinal proteins. The U.S. participants were selected on the basis of being the most active researchers in the rhodopsin field. Therefore, this proposal fulfills the objectives of the Program in its exchange and transfer of scientific knowledge through international collaboration. ***

小行星9513078 该奖项支持14名美国科学家参加美国-日本视网膜蛋白质信息和能量传递结构基础研讨会，拟于1997年3月16日至20日在日本京都举行。 联合组织者是Janos K.加州大学欧文分校的蓝义和京都大学的前田昭夫。 本次研讨会的目的是评估在理解视网膜蛋白质功能的结构基础方面的最新进展。 这些蛋白质目前正在进行深入研究，因为它们参与能量和信息传递，这两者对生命至关重要。 来自美国和日本的主要研究人员将进行互动和交流，以开发新的概念和实验方法来研究视网膜蛋白作为光受体。具体而言，研讨会将包括激发态动力学，光化学反应动力学，蛋白质构象变化，质子传导机制，热力学，视觉和趋光性中的信号转导，以及基于视网膜蛋白质的光传感器等主题。 美国参与者是根据视紫红质领域最活跃的研究人员而选择的。 因此，该提案实现了该计划通过国际合作交流和转让科学知识的目标。 ***