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

9513078兰义该奖项支持14名美国科学家参加将于1997年3月16日至20日在日本京都举行的关于视网膜蛋白质中信息和能量转导的结构基础的美日研讨会。联合组织者是加州大学欧文分校的亚诺斯·K·兰伊教授和京都大学的Akio前田教授。本次研讨会的目的是评估在了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的研究，因为它们参与能量和信息传递，这两个都是生命所必需的。来自美国和日本的顶尖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质作为光受体。具体来说，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。美国的参与者是在视紫红质领域最活跃的研究人员的基础上挑选出来的。因此，这项建议实现了该计划通过国际合作交流和转让科学知识的目标。***

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. ***