Zentralprojekt
Final Report Abstract
During the first period the FOR526 members met three times within the frame of the central project. During the second period the members met also three times.The intention of the meetings was to present, discuss and critically analyze the progress of the graduate students and Post Docs. Second, at all three occasions we analyzed the progress of the whole group in comparison to the progress of the total Blue-light receptor field. But, last not least we tried to clearly define the key questions that had to be tackled during the next years. This analysis also included the critical analysis of technology that was available in the group or that ought to be acquired from outside. To all meetings we invited speakers that made strong contributions to the blue light receptor field or had developed methods that are of potential interest for the field in the near future. The profit of the discussions during the group meetings for graduate and undergraduate students must also not be underestimated. The intense but always friendly atmosphere resulted in several applications for graduate student position. Moreover, graduate students exchanged between the laboratories of the PIs, especially biochemist were visiting spectroscopy and crystallography laboratories to survey the experiments that were carried out with their samples. Finally, graduate students and Post Docs visited the spectroscopy laboratory of J. Kennis in Amsterdam. One outcome of the discussion of the meetings and of the FOR526 in general was the conception of a new FOR1279, which was approved by the DFG and already started in April 2010 immediately after the end of FOR526 and is focusing on the photoreceptor-effector interaction and not on the photoreactions themself.
