| SATURDAY |
| 1:30 pm | Check-In Begins |
| 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 2:45 pm - 3:30 pm | Introduction to photoreceptors/ From Structure to Function Part I |
| Discussion Leader: Nathan Rockwell (University of California, Davis) |
| 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Nathan Rockwell (University of California, Davis)
"Introduction to Photoreceptors" |
| 3:00 pm - 3:20 pm | Melanie Nack (Free University Berlin)
"Vibrational Spectroscopy Probes the Light-Driven Cation Channel Channelrhodopsin-2" |
| 3:20 pm - 3:30 pm | Discussion |
| 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session I |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | From Structure to Function Part II |
| Discussion Leader: Erik Schleicher (Free University Berlin) |
| 5:30 pm - 5:50 pm | Anand Vaidya (Cornell University)
"Light-induced signal transduction in the fungal photoreceptor Vivid" |
| 5:50 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
| 6:00 pm - 6:20 pm | Xiaojing Yang (University of Chicago)
"Cryotrapped Structures and Photoconversion Mechanism in P. aeruginosa Bacteriophytochrome" |
| 6:20 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
| 6:30 pm - 6:50 pm | Reginald McNulty (University of California Irvine)
"Elucidating the 3-D Structure of a Light-Activated Transcription Factor from Erythrobacter litoralis" |
| 6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
| 7:00 pm - 7:20 pm | Brian Zoltowski (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
"Biophysical Characterization of a Photocoupled DNA-Binding Protein" |
| 7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm | Dinner |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Illuminating Signal Transduction Pathways |
| Discussion Leader: Marcela Avila-Perez (University of Amsterdam) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Fernando Correa (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
"Light-Sensing Two Component Systems: A Tale of a LOV-Histidine Kinase and its Response Regulators" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Richard Pokorny (Philipps University Marburg)
"Light-Dependent Redox Signaling by A. thaliana Cryptochrome 3" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Onur Öztas (Koc University)
"Cryptochrome Dependent Expression of Photolyase Gene in V. cholerae" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Engineering Photosensory Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Tilo Mathes (Humboldt Universität Zu Berlin) |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Devin Strickland (University of Chicago)
"Rationally Increasing the Dynamic Range of Genetically-Encoded, Optically-Controlled Proteins" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Ulrich Krauss (Heinrich Heine Universität Dusseldorf)
"Towards Engineering Light-Controllable Biocatalysts" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Matthias Prigge (Humboldt Universität Zu Berlin)
"Engineering Red Shifted Channelrhodopsins" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| 3:30 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
