Conference: 2012 Ion Channels Gordon Research Seminar being held July 8-13, 2012 in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

关于离子通道的戈登研究研讨会（GRS）是一个新开发的为期两天的会议，由研究生和博士后同事组织和介绍，紧接着是关于同一主题的成熟的戈登研究会议（GRC）。 2012年离子通道GRS会议主题将集中在介导细胞离子转运的膜嵌入大分子复合物的结构和动力学。 参加这次会议的研究人员正在利用新的活细胞EPR和FRET光谱方法与单分子方法相结合，以了解结构，组织和分子相互作用（例如膜蛋白-蛋白质和蛋白质脂质），定义这些膜嵌入蛋白质的功能。GRS将为在离子通道领域工作的早期职业研究人员提供一个独特的机会，与来自地球仪的同行展示和讨论他们的数据和职业经验。这样的经验对于项目的开发，创新思想的激励和合作的建立是非常宝贵的。智力优点离子通道GRS的主要目标是为研究生和博士后提供一个场所，在平易近人的氛围中磨练他们的科学和网络技能，这将使他们有信心充分参与2012年离子通道GRC。 所有演讲者和海报展示者都必须展示新的和未发表的数据，这一要求使本次会议真正处于新研究的前沿。 这个公式已经超过20年，导致母公司离子通道GRC提供了离子通道社区所享有的最深入和最重要的科学交流思想。 通过利用离子通道GRS的这个公式，这次会议将把这些早期职业调查人员塑造成互动的、精通国际的敏捷研究人员。科学计划将集中在离子通道研究的前沿领域，重点是离子通道功能的分子机制和生物物理学。这样的谈话产生的讨论，形状的方向，该领域作为一个整体，定义的中心问题和具体问题，需要实验解决，并提供一个概念框架，推动离子通道的研究。更广泛的影响一个重要的和传统的方面“GRC经验”，我们打算培养为2012年离子通道GRS是年轻的研究人员和更资深的同事之间的互动。虽然GRS的所有演讲者和海报展示者都将是研究生和博士后研究员，但每次会议都将由来自学术界，工业界或政府的导师共同主持，他们有培训年轻调查人员的记录。这一小群杰出的研究人员将为会议的成功举办提供深度和历史。此外，这些领导者在离子通道领域的存在将有助于吸引最有才华的研究生和博士后到首届离子通道GRS。然而，毫无疑问，这些知名研究人员和专业人员最有价值的贡献将是他们作为导师的作用。 所有与会者将有机会在海报会议期间以及在休息和共同用餐期间与导师进行非正式互动和讨论职业战略。 此外，我们的目标是让90%的GRS（离子通道）会议参与者继续积极参与离子通道GRC，该会议由该领域的领导者组织，并将接待另外100 - 120名高级研究人员。这是一个合理的目标，因为历史上170名参加者中有40%是研究生和博士后。我们希望，像母公司离子通道GRC一样，GRS将成为离子通道领域所有未来领导者在成长期参加的首要会议。

The Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Ion Channels is a newly developed two day conference organized and presented by graduate students and post-doctoral associates immediately preceding the well-established Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on the same topic. The 2012 Ion Channels GRS meeting topics will focus on the structure and dynamics of membrane-embedded macromolecular complexes that mediate cellular ion transport. Investigators that attend this meeting are making use of novel live-cell EPR and FRET spectroscopy methods combined with single molecule approaches to understand the structure, organization, and molecular interactions (e.g. membrane protein-protein and proteinlipid) that define the function of these membrane-embedded proteins. The GRS will give early career investigators working in the ion channel field a unique opportunity to present and discuss their data and career experiences with their peers from the top laboratories around the globe. Such an experience is invaluable for the development of projects, stimulation of innovative ideas and the establishment of collaborations. Intellectual MeritA primary objective of the Ion Channels GRS is to provide a venue for graduate students and post-doctoral associates to hone their science and networking skills in an approachable atmosphere, which will provide them the confidence to fully participate in the 2012 Ion Channels GRC. The understood requirement for all the speakers and poster presenters to showcase new and unpublished data truly sets this meeting at the leading edge of new research. This formula has, for more than 20 years, resulted in the parent Ion Channels GRC providing the most in-depth and important scientific interchange ideas enjoyed by the ion channel community. By utilizing this formula for the Ion Channels GRS, this meeting will shape these early-career investigators into interactive, internationally-savvy agile researchers. The scientific program will focus on leading-edge areas of ion channel research of broad significance with emphasis on molecular mechanisms and biophysics of ion channels function. Such talks generate discussion that shapes the direction of the field as a whole, defining the central issues and specific questions that need experimental resolution and providing a conceptual framework that propels ion channel research.Broader ImpactAn important and traditional aspect of the "GRC experience" that we intend to foster for the 2012 Ion Channels GRS are the interactions between young investigators and more senior colleagues. While all the speakers and poster presenters for the GRS will be graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, each session will be co-chaired by a mentor from academia, industry or government who has a track record of training young investigators. This small cohort of prominent and established investigators will provide a depth and history to the presentations and discussions that are critical for a successful meeting. In addition, the presence of these leaders in the ion channel field will serve to attract the most talented graduate students and post-docs to the inaugural Ion Channels GRS. However, unquestionably the most valuable contribution of these established researchers and professionals will be their role as mentors. All meeting participants will have the opportunity to interact and discuss career strategies with the mentors during the poster sessions as well as informally during breaks and meals which are taken communally. Furthermore, it is our goal to have 90% of the participants at the GRS (Ion Channels) meeting go on to actively participate in the Ion Channels GRC immediately following, which is organized by leaders in the field, and will host an additional 100 - 120 senior research faculty. This is a reasonable goal since historically 40% of the 170 total attendees at the Ion Channels GRC have been graduate students and post-doctoral associates. We hope, like the parent Ion Channels GRC, the GRS will become the premier meeting that all the future leaders in the Ion Channel field will have attended during their formative years.