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

为期一天的时间生物学研讨会在巴西圣保罗举行，汇集了来自美洲各国的初级和高级科学家，并提供了一个交流和讨论时间生物学最新主题的机会，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合作工作范围内特别妥善处理的有关研究题目和方法。该奖项为美国的主要研究人员参加该研讨会提供支持。研讨会的智力价值在于其规模小，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，以及与第13届两年一次的拉丁美洲时间生物学研讨会在时间和空间上的连续性。由于拉丁美洲的外国伙伴关系以及在会议主席和发言人中有大量的妇女代表，该讲习班提供了向在科学领域代表性不足的人群进行宣传的机会。这个高度互动的研讨会提供了与该领域资深成员密切、密切的互动，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，然后是深入的讨论，以及一个主题演讲。圆桌会议的主题包括分子和网络，以及以睡眠为中心的昼夜节律主题。报告的收集涵盖了一系列互补的主题和实验系统，具有相当大的影响活动的希望。除了为美国和拉丁美洲实验室之间发展新的合作提供肥沃的土壤外，研讨会的形式和演讲者和圆桌椅子的组成促进了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，结合研讨会的中心目标，即交流和推进令人兴奋的时间生物学新思想，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.