Meeting: Chronobiology Workshop, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 3, 2015

在巴西圣保罗举行的为期一天的时间生物学研讨会汇集了来自美洲各国的初级和高级科学家，并为时间生物学的最新主题的交流和讨论提供了一个有利的环境，研究生物节律，如对太阳周期的睡眠-觉醒适应。 讲习班还有助于确定在国际协作工作中特别得到妥善处理的相关研究专题和方法。 该奖项为美国的主要研究人员参加此次研讨会提供支持。 研讨会的智力价值来自其规模小，促进了参与者之间的互动，许多顶尖科学家在时间生物学的集会，参与者的国际构成，以及与第13届两年一度的拉丁美洲时间生物学研讨会的时间和空间连续性。 由于拉丁美洲的外国伙伴关系以及会议主席和发言人中妇女的代表性很强，讲习班为向在科学领域代表性不足的人口进行宣传提供了机会。 通过这个高度互动的研讨会，与该领域的高级成员进行了密切而密集的互动，为参加此次活动的许多学员和初级教师提供了学习和交流的机会。研讨会包括4个圆桌会议，每个圆桌会议包括4个简短的演讲，然后进行深入的讨论，以及一个主题演讲。 圆桌会议的主题包括分子以及网络，昼夜节律以及睡眠为重点的主题。 演讲集涵盖了一系列互补的主题和实验系统，具有相当大的影响力活动的前景。 除了为美国和拉丁美洲实验室之间的新合作发展提供肥沃的土壤外，研讨会的形式以及演讲者和圆桌会议主席的组成还促进了STEM学科的广泛参与以及跨专业水平和种族多样性的思想交流。 这些方面，再加上研讨会的中心目标是交流和推进时间生物学领域令人兴奋的新思想，为更大的时间生物学社区带来了长期利益。

The one-day Workshop on Chronobiology in Sao Paulo, Brazil, brings together junior and senior scientists from countries throughout the Americas, and offers an opportune environment for the exchange and discussion of the latest topics in chronobiology, the study of biological rhythms such as sleep-wake adaptations to solar cycles. The workshop also serves to identify relevant research topics and approaches that are addressed particularly well in the context of international collaborative work. The award provides support to US-based principal investigators to participate in this workshop. The intellectual merit of the workshop derives from its small size, which promotes interactions between participants, the assembly of many top scientists in chronobiology, the international make-up of the participants, and its temporal and spatial contiguity with the 13th biannual Latin American Symposium on Chronobiology. With the Latin American foreign partnership as well as a strong representation of women among session chairs and speakers, the workshop provides opportunity for outreach to populations underrepresented in science. The close, intensive interactions with senior members in the field afforded by this highly interactive workshop offer learning and networking opportunity for the many trainees and junior faculty participating in this event.The workshop includes 4 roundtable sessions, each consisting of 4 brief presentations followed by a thorough discussion, and one keynote presentation. The roundtable topics include molecular as well as network, and circadian as well as sleep-focused themes. The collection of presentations spans a complementary range of topics and experimental systems with considerable promise for impactful activities. In addition to engendering a fertile ground for the development of new collaborations between US and Latin American laboratories, the format of the workshop and the composition of speakers and roundtable chairs foster broadening participation in STEM disciplines as well as exchange of ideas across professional levels and ethnic diversity. These aspects, combined with the workshop's central goal of exchanging and advancing exciting new ideas in chronobiology, constitute long-term benefits for the larger Chronobiology community.