| SATURDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Computational and Spectroscopic Analysis of Photoreceptor Signaling Mechanisms |
| Discussion Leader: Jocelyne Vreede (University of Amsterdam) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Ahmed El Hady (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics)
"Continuous Dynamic Photostimulation" |
| 4:00 pm - 4:05 pm | Discussion |
| 4:05 pm - 4:20 pm | Murat Kilic (University of Amsterdam)
"Solvent Effects on the Redox Properties of Lumiflavin in Water"
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| 4:20 pm - 4:25 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Biology of Photoreceptor Signaling Mechanisms |
| Discussion Leader: Jutta Roesler (University of California-Berkeley) |
| 7:35 pm - 7:50 pm | Anne Pfeiffer (University of California-Berkeley)
"Nuclear transport of phytochrome B requires transport facilitators"
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| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Tobias Preuten (University de Lausanne)
"Getting to the site of action - understanding spatial issues in phototropin signaling" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Marc Heijde (University of Geneva)
"Negative feedback regulation of UV-B-induced photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis"
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| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Jeroen van der Steen (University of Amsterdam)
"The blue-light photoreceptor YtvA can differentiate between the RsbR paralogs of the stressosomes of Bacillus subtilis"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of Photoreceptor Function |
| Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Carroll (University of California-Berkeley) |
| 9:05 am - 9:20 am | Anand Vaidya (Cornell University)
"Structure of Drosophila Circadian Clock Photoreceptor Cryptochrome" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Alex Jones (University of Manchester)
"The characteristics of Homo sapien cryptochrome 1 in the dark, light and when exposed to magnetic fields"
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| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Tilo Mathes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
"Proton coupled electron transfer in BLUF domains"
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| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Andreas Winkler (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research)
"Characterization of the AppA PpsR interaction"
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| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Optogenetics: Engineering New Photoreceptor Tools |
| Discussion Leader: Devin Strickland (University of Chicago) |
| 1:35 pm - 1:50 pm | Jared Toettcher (University of California San Francisco)
"Harnessing light-gated protein association to quantitatively probe cell signaling"
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| 1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Manuela Stierl (Humboldt University Berlin)
"Inversion of the light-dependence of a photoregulated cyclase bPAC"
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| 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 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. |
