| Sunday, January 27, 2008 | ||
| 16:00:00 | Arrival and Check-in | |
| 18:00:00 | Dinner | |
| 19:30:00 | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff | |
| 19:40:00 | Blue-light-mediated Signal Transduction of the BLUF Photoreceptor PixD (Slr1694) | Hua Yuan |
| 19:40:00 | Structure and mechanism of signal generation in BLUF domains | |
| 19:40:00 | Discussion | Carl Bauer |
| 20:00:00 | Discussion | |
| 20:05:00 | Site-directed mutagenesis study of BLUF proteins | Shinji Masuda |
| 20:25:00 | Discussion | |
| 20:30:00 | Structural Basis of signaling by BLUF domains | Ilme Schlichting |
| 20:55:00 | Discussion | |
| 21:00:00 | Light-dependent signal transmission by the AppA protein in R. sphaeroides | Gabriele Klug |
| 21:25:00 | Discussion | |
| Monday, January 28, 2008 | ||
| 07:30:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00:00 | Discussion | Eberhard Schaefer |
| 09:00:00 | From structure to signal transduction chain in the phytochromes | |
| 09:00:00 | Introduction to phytochrome signaling | Eberhard Schaefer |
| 09:15:00 | Phytochromes modulate the transcriptional network by directly regulating the stability of bHLH transcription factors | Christian Fankhauser |
| 09:40:00 | Discussion | |
| 09:45:00 | Early events of phytochrome controlled signaling in Arabidopsis | Ferenc Nagy |
| 10:10:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:15:00 | Coffee Break / Group Photo | |
| 11:00:00 | Integration of light and temperature signalling through PIF3-like bHLH TFs | Karen Halliday |
| 11:30:00 | Why Knot? The 3D Structure of Phytochrome | Katrina Forest |
| 11:35:00 | Discussion | |
| 11:55:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:00:00 | Light-induced reactions in Phytochrome and Photoactive Yellow Protein | Jasper van Thor |
| 12:25:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:30:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30:00 | Free Time | |
| 16:00:00 | Poster Session I | |
| 18:00:00 | Dinner | |
| 19:30:00 | From structure to function in visual rhodopsins | |
| 19:30:00 | Where the field is and new funding from the lab | Kris Palczewski |
| 19:30:00 | Discussion | Kris Palczewski |
| 19:50:00 | Discussion | |
| 19:55:00 | Crystallographic studies of squid rhodopsin and archaeal rhodopsins | Tsutomu Kouyama |
| 20:20:00 | Discussion | |
| 20:25:00 | Nature of the counterion switch in rhodopsin and cone pigment activation | Robert Birge |
| 20:50:00 | Discussion | |
| 20:55:00 | Butterfly color vision | Adriana Briscoe |
| 21:20:00 | Discussion | |
| Tuesday, January 29, 2008 | ||
| 07:30:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00:00 | Discussion | Pill-Soon Song |
| 09:00:00 | New techniques for the study of photosensory signal transduction | |
| 09:00:00 | Introduction to Session | Pill-Soon Song |
| 09:05:00 | Ultra-fast spectroscopy of photosensory proteins | |
| 09:30:00 | Discussion | |
| 09:35:00 | Time-resolved studies on conformation changes and energies of photosensor proteins in solution | Masahide Terazima |
| 10:00:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:05:00 | TBA | |
| 10:30:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:35:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00:00 | Structural and mechanistic similarities among photoreceptors | Keith Moffat |
| 11:25:00 | Discussion | |
| 11:30:00 | Application of solution NMR methods to study blue-light photoreception | Kevin Gardner |
| 11:55:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:00:00 | TBA | |
| 12:25:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:30:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30:00 | Free Time | |
| 16:00:00 | Poster Session II | |
| 18:00:00 | Dinner | |
| 19:30:00 | Discussion | John Spudich |
| 19:30:00 | Diversity, structure, and mechanism of signal generation and transfer | |
| 19:30:00 | Mechanisms of Signaling by Microbial Sensory Rhodopsins | John Spudich |
| 19:55:00 | Discussion | |
| 20:00:00 | From retinal isomerisation to activation of a HAMP domain | Martin Engelhard |
| 20:25:00 | Discussion | |
| 20:30:00 | Sensory rhodopsins and their transducers | Hudel Luecke |
| 20:55:00 | Discussion | |
| 21:00:00 | The determinants of light-energy and light-signal conversion in rhodopsins | Hideki Kandori |
| 21:25:00 | Discussion | |
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | ||
| 07:30:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00:00 | The mechanism of signal transfer mediated by LOV domains | |
| 09:00:00 | Discussion | Peter Hegemann |
| 09:00:00 | Introduction to LOV | Peter Hegemann |
| 09:10:00 | Structural basis of the light regulation of phototropin kinase | |
| 09:35:00 | Discussion | |
| 09:40:00 | Phototropin receptor function and application | John M. Christie |
| 10:05:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:10:00 | Beyond phosphorylation: Receptor ubiquitylation and endocytosis as components of phototropic signaling | Mannie Liscum |
| 10:35:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:40:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:10:00 | Phototropin function in chloroplast movement | Masamitsu Wada |
| 11:35:00 | Discussion | |
| 11:40:00 | Photochemistry and conformational change in the LOV protein Vivid | Brian Crane |
| 12:00:00 | New Presentation | |
| 12:00:00 | New Presentation | |
| 12:05:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:10:00 | General Discussion | |
| 12:30:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30:00 | Free Time | |
| 16:00:00 | Poster Session III | |
| 18:00:00 | Dinner | |
| 19:00:00 | Business Meeting | |
| 19:30:00 | Structure of the photointermediate of PYP and the propagation mechanism of structural change | Mikio Kataoka |
| 19:30:00 | Blue-light photoreception | |
| 19:30:00 | Discussion | Michael Cusanovich |
| 19:55:00 | Discussion | |
| 20:00:00 | Energy surfaces for folding and function of photoactive yellow protein | Wouter Hoff |
| 20:30:00 | The phototropin LOV domain: A chromophore module serving many masters | Winslow Briggs |
| 20:55:00 | Discussion | |
| 21:00:00 | TBA | |
| 21:25:00 | Discussion | |
| Thursday, January 31, 2008 | ||
| 07:30:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00:00 | Discussion | Margaret Ahmad |
| 09:00:00 | The mechanism of signal generation in cryptochromes | |
| 09:00:00 | Cryptochrome Photoreceptor Mechanism of Light Activation | Margaret Ahmad |
| 09:40:00 | Discussion | |
| 09:45:00 | Discussion | Alfred Batschauer |
| 10:10:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:15:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45:00 | Cryptochrome and light-dependent magnetoreception | Thorsten Ritz |
| 11:10:00 | Discussion | |
| 11:15:00 | Photoreaction mechanism of the circadian photoreceptor Drosophila cryptochrome | Eva Wolf |
| 11:40:00 | Discussion | |
| 11:45:00 | TBA | |
| 12:20:00 | Discussion | |
| 12:30:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30:00 | Free Time | |
| 16:00:00 | Poster Session IV | |
| 18:00:00 | Dinner | |
| 19:30:00 | On the application of light-sensing proteins | |
| 19:30:00 | Phytochromes: Sensors of Bilins and Light | Clark Lagarias |
| 19:30:00 | Discussion | Georg Nagel |
| 19:55:00 | Discussion | |
| 20:00:00 | Assembly and applications of integrated lipid-proteorhodopsin patterned arrays | Hongjun Liang |
| 20:25:00 | Discussion | |
| 20:30:00 | Using Channelrhodopsin for the analysis of neural networks and synaptic transmission in the C. elegans nervous system | Alexander Gottschalk |
| 20:55:00 | Discussion | |
| 21:00:00 | cAMP dependent memory processing in fruit flies: expanding experimental limits in the temporal and sub-cellular domain by use of transgenic photo-activated cyclase | Martin Schwärzel |
| 21:25:00 | Discussion | |
| Friday, February 1, 2008 | ||
| 07:30:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00:00 | Depart | |
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