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讲习班汇集了来自美洲各国的初级和高级科学家，并为交流和讨论时间生物学的最新主题提供了一个合适的环境，时间生物学研究生物节律，如睡眠-觉醒对太阳周期的适应。讲习班还有助于确定在国际协作工作中特别好地处理的相关研究主题和方法。该奖项为美国的首席研究人员参加这次研讨会提供了支持。讲习班的学术价值来自于其规模小，它促进了参与者之间的互动，聚集了许多时间生物学领域的顶尖科学家，参与者的国际构成，以及它与第13届拉丁美洲时间生物学半年期专题讨论会的时间和空间上的毗连。由于拉丁美洲的对外伙伴关系以及妇女在会议主席和发言者中占很大比例，讲习班提供了接触科学界代表性不足人群的机会。通过这一高度互动的研讨会与该领域的高级成员进行密切、密集的互动，为参加此次活动的许多受训人员和初级教师提供了学习和建立网络的机会。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，然后是一个深入的讨论，以及一个主题演讲。圆桌会议的主题包括分子和网络，昼夜节律以及以睡眠为重点的主题。演讲集涵盖了一系列互补的主题和实验系统，并为有影响力的活动带来了相当大的希望。除了为美国和拉丁美洲实验室之间发展新的合作创造肥沃的土壤外，研讨会的形式以及演讲者和圆桌会议主席的组成有助于扩大对STEM学科的参与以及跨专业水平和种族多样性的思想交流。这些方面，与研讨会交流和推进令人振奋的时间生物学新思想的中心目标相结合，构成了更大的时间生物学社区的长期利益。

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.