Middle panel shows among others (left to right, in the front row) Lisa Utschig, Ana Moore and Gary Hastings. Right panel (from bottom to top) : 1st row (left to right): selleck chemicals llc Thomas Renger, Carolyn (Cara) Lubner, Douglas Bruce and Krishna Niyogi; 2nd row (left

to right): Imré Vass, Fraser Armstrong and Fabrice Rappaport; 3rd row (left to right): Conrad Mullineaux, Klaus Lips, Thomas Moore, and John Golbeck; 4th row (left to right): Friket Mamedov, Jeremy Harbinson, and Alfred Holzwarth. (Bottom row): Left panel: Junko Yano and Johannes Messinger at the traditional Palbociclib clinical trial lobster dinner. Middle panel (left to right): Peter Jahns, Athina Zouni, Govindjee, Junko Yano and Gennady Ananvev. Right panel (left to right): Julian Eaton-Rye, Nicholas

(Nick) Cox, Govindjee and Iain McConnell An usual feature at these Gordon Conferences is a soccer game between the US and the Rest of the World (ROW); the 2009 game was organized by Gary Brudvig (see Gary of the US Team in action in Fig. 4, top row, left); it also shows William (Bill) Rutherford (of ROW) in action at this soccer game; the inset L-NAME HCl shows the game; and the right top panel shows Győző Garab (of ROW) as the goalie, in clear action; ROW won this game; the player knealing down and seeking (though without success) for a “loose ball” is David Tiede (of the US Team). Győző is very proud that he was declared the MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the 2009 game. Another informal tradition at our conferences has been an evening of music by Bill Rutherford (France) and Harry Frank (USA) (see Fig. 4, bottom

row, left panel); it also shows Matthews, Robert (Bob) Niederman’s (USA) young son, joining in. It is a pleasure to show (Fig. 4, bottom row, middle panel) a photograph of two of my past PhD students: Thomas (Tom) J Wydrzynski (Australia), and Julian Eaton-Rye (New Zealand). I end this section on Ambiance with a photograph of Anthony (Tony) Larkum (Australia) since we were two of the ‘senior’ students in this gathering of ‘photosynthetikers’ as Jack Myers would have called us. [A quiz for the future students of the 2011 Gordon Conference is: Who was Jack Myers and why we must remember him?] Fig. 4 Photographs from the 2009 Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis.