Conference: 2024 Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction GRC/GRS: Light-Dependent Molecular Mechanism, Cellular Response and Organismal Behavior

关于感光受体和信号转导的戈登研究会议（GRC）和戈登研究研讨会（GRS）将于2024年3月2日至3日（GRS）和3月3日至8日（GRC）在文艺复兴时期的托斯卡纳Il Ciocco Via Giovanni Pascoli卢卡（巴尔加），意大利举行。 本次会议将汇集来自广泛学科的高级和初级研究人员，讨论和促进我们对生物学中感光系统的理解。了解光信号是如何传输的，有可能通过优化光合作用和植物生长来提高作物产量，允许开发用于细胞生物学和神经科学的新的光遗传学工具，并治疗与视力丧失和情绪障碍相关的人类疾病。选择GRC和GRS的主题是为了强调这些问题背后最重要、最普遍的问题，并激发不同研究人员之间的思想交流，以解决这些问题。该计划包括来自17个国家的45位演讲者在GRC和13位演讲者和三位导师在GRS。从提交的摘要中选出的其他演讲将有15分钟的时间。由于GRS紧接着是定期的GRC会议，因此GRS与会者的许多与会者可能会留下来参加GRC会议，以便有机会与高级研究人员交流和互动。会议将为来自不同背景和代表性不足的群体的年轻科学家，研究生和博士后研究员提供一个机会，在跨学科领域接受培训，并与该领域的当前领导者互动。本次会议得到了分子和细胞生物科学部分子生物物理学项目的支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction will be held on March 2-3rd (GRS), 2024 and March 3-8th (GRC), 2024 in Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Via Giovanni Pascoli Lucca (Barga), Italy. This conference will bring together senior and junior researchers from broad ranging disciplines to discuss and advance our understanding of photosensory systems in biology. Understanding how light signals are transmitted has the potential to improve crop yields through optimized photosynthesis and plant growth, allow the development of new optogenetic tools for cell biology and neuroscience and treat diseases in humans associated with vision loss and mood disorders. The themes of the GRC and GRS have been chosen to emphasize the most important, universal questions underlying these problems and to stimulate the exchange of ideas among diverse researchers to solve them. The Program includes 45 speakers from 17 countries in GRC and 13 speakers and three mentors in GRS. Additional talks, selected from submitted abstracts, will be given 15-minute time slots. Since GRS is immediately followed by the regular GRC conference, many attendees of GRS attendees may stay for GRC sessions to have opportunity to mingle and interact with senior investigators. The meeting will provide an opportunity to young scientists, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from diverse backgrounds and from underrepresented groups to be trained in interdisciplinary areas and interact with the current leaders of the field. This meeting was supported by the Molecular Biophysics Program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.