Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Microbial Light Perception and Responses
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
"Structural Insights into the Function of the Phycobilisome and the Orange Carotenoid Protein"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
"Comparative Analysis of Two Paradigm Bacteriophytochromes Reveals Opposite Functionalities in Two-Component Signaling"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"Optical Lensing and Redox Inputs for Phototaxis in Cyanobacteria"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Regulation of Cell Adhesion and Stress Responses by LOV Histidine Kinases"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Functions and Dynamics of Flavin-Binding Photoreceptors
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 am
"Nonequilibrium Excited State Dynamics of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in BLUF Photoreceptor Proteins"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
"Phototropin Links Blue-Light Perception and Starch Accumulation in Chlamydomonas "
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"One Input, Many Outputs: Exploring Generality of LOV Mechanism in Bacterial Signaling Proteins"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Group Photo / Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Allosteric Transitions of Receptor Proteins Following Activation"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"Phototropin Substrate Phosphorylation and Signaling"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Divergent Mechanisms of Signal Transduction in LOV Domains"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Light Perception and Behavioral Responses
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Functional Diversity of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells in Humans"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
"Illuminating Circadian Circuits"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"Tracing ipRGCs in the Mouse Brain"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Functional Specializations of Melanopsin Photoreception for Non-Image Vision"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Retinal Proteins: Sensors, Pumps and Channels
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 am
"New Perspectives for Microbial Rhodopsin Engineering"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:00 am
"Mammalian Rhodopsin Dynamics Using an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:25 am
"Retinal Chromophore Charge Delocalization Explains the Extreme Photophysics of Neorhodopsin"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Rhodopsins in the Global Ocean and Their Impact on the Marine Carbon Cycle"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"Structural Studies of the Phototransduction Signaling Pathway in Retinal Rods"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"The Protein Environment Tunes the Selectivity and the Yield of the Retinal Chromophore Isomerization"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Advanced Techniques and Multichromatic Photoreception
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Time-Resolved Crystallography at XFELs on Photo-Reactive and Non-Photo-Reactive Proteins"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
"Modulation of Adenosylcobalamin Photochemistry by the CarH Photoreceptor Protein"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm
"Photoreceptor Cell Differentiation and Retinal Development in the Squid Doryteuthis pealeii "
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
"2D-IR Spectroscopy of Bilin Photoreceptors"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"From Picoseconds to Seconds: Time-Resolved Structural Analysis of DNA-Repair by Photolyases and Signaling by Cryptochromes"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Signal Integration in Plant Photobiology
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 am
"Photoregulatory Mechanism of mRNA Methylation in Arabidopsis "
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
"Plant Acclimation to Ultraviolet Radiation: The Roles of UVR8 and Cryptochromes"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"The Reds and the Blues of Plant Growth and Development"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Convergence of Light and Chloroplast Signals in Arabidopsis "
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"A Ternary Complex of Splicing Factors Promotes Photomorphogenesis by Modulating pre-mRNA Splicing in Arabidopsis "
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Nucleus-to-Plastid Light Signaling for Initiating Chloroplast Biogenesis in Arabidopsis "
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Optogenetics and Synthetic Biology
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Fluorescent Proteins as Photosensory Domains: Engineering and Applications"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
"Engineering Optogenetic Circuits for Detecting Intracellular Signaling"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"Light-Guided Embryogenesis: Using Optogenetics to Probe and Replace Developmental Patterns"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"What is LOV? New Insights into Light-dependent Allostery"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Function and Structural Dynamics of Bilin-Based Photoreceptors
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:30 am
"Unraveling Molecular Details of Sensor-Effector Communication in Bacteriophytochromes via Integrative Approaches"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:00 am
"Photoactivation Studies of Bacteriophytochromes – Biochemical Activity and its Relationship to Structural Dynamics"
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Discussion
10:10 am - 10:40 am
Coffee Break
10:40 am - 11:00 am
"Fungal Phytochrome - from Red to Blue to Temperature"
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Discussion
11:10 am - 11:25 am
"FTIR Spectroscopic Characterization of Electrostatic Field in Bathy Phytochrome Agp2"
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"A Structural Appreciation of Plant Phytochrome Signaling"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Planarization is an Alternative Photocycle Initiation Mechanism in the Dynamics of the Tri-cysteine Violet/Blue Photoswitching Cyanobacteriochrome from Moorea producens "
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Light-Regulated Clocks and Magnetoreception
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Factors Regulating Rhythms in the Gut"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
"Immediate Responses to Ambient Light in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Reveal Distinct Activity Profiles and Retinal Connectivity for SCNVIP Neurons"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm
"Cryptochrome 1 Mediates Light-Dependent Inclination Magnetosensing in Monarch Butterflies"
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
"KidA, a Multi-PAS Domain Protein that Tunes the Period of the Cyanobacterial Circadian Oscillator"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"A Semi-Synthetic Circadian Oscillator Reveals the Emergence of a 'Lights on Timer' Behavior"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure