Conference: 2000 Photosensory Receptors and Signal Transduction; April 30 - May 5, 2000, Barga, Italy

该奖项将为戈登研究会议提供部分支持，会议内容涉及感光受体和信号转导。这是近年来第一次围绕这一主题组织的综合性会议，也是第一次由戈登研究会议主办的关于这一主题的会议。这次会议是鉴于最近新的光感受器的突破性发现以及在大约五年的时间里在其激活和信号机制方面的快速进展而组织的。重点是受体光传导的分子机制，并聚集了研究微生物、植物和动物光感受器的研究人员。这次会议将提供一个非常需要的机会来交流信息和想法，并让研究人员意识到现有的各种和精辟的分子工具。预计这次会议将激发关于光传感信号转导前沿的新见解、一般原则和最引人入胜的谜团的令人兴奋的讨论。会议将于4月30日至5月5日在意大利巴尔加的戈登研究会议地点举行。九场会议将讨论以下领域：光转导：原子结构和动力学洞察古感官视紫质哺乳动物视觉色素真核微生物中新的感光受体低等植物和蓝藻中的趋光性光色素高等植物中的光色素光活性黄色蛋白受邀的特别晚间讲者将是诺贝尔奖获得者H·戈本德·霍拉纳，他将就视紫红质的结构和功能发表演讲。发言者被选为尽可能广泛地代表该领域的代表，会议的设计是为了让年轻的调查人员有机会在可能的情况下介绍他们的工作和想法。

This award will provide partial support of a Gordon Research Conference on photosensory receptors and signal transduction. This is the first comprehensive conference organized around this theme in recent years and the first on this subject to be sponsored by the Gordon Research Conferences. The conference has been organized in view of the recent breakthrough discoveries of new photosensory receptors and rapid progress on their activation and signaling mechanisms over approximately the past five years. The focus is on molecular mechanisms of receptor phototransduction and brings together investigators who study microbial, plant, and animal photoreceptors. The meeting will provide a very much-needed opportunity to exchange information and ideas and for investigators to become aware of the diverse and incisive molecular tools available. It is expected that the conference will stimulate exciting discussion of emerging insights, general principles, and the most engaging mysteries on the cutting edge of photosensory signal transduction. The meeting is to be held April 30-May 5 at the Gordon Research Conference site in Barga, Italy. Nine sessions will address the following areas:Phototransduction: insights from atomic structure and dynamicsArchaeal sensory rhodopsinsMammalian visual pigmentsNew photosensory receptors in eukaryotic microbesCryptochromesPhototropinPhytochromes in lower plants & cyanobacteriaPhytochromes in higher plantsPhotoactive yellow proteinThe invited special evening lecturer will be H. Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate, who will speak on rhodopsin structure and function. Speakers have been chosen to represent the field as broadly as possible, and the meeting is designed so that wherever possible, young investigators will have an opportunity to present their work and ideas.