As I depart Grenoble, I am very happy and grateful for the time that we have spent together. I have wanted to collaborate with the Channels Group at IBS for an extended period and we had begun to discuss some rough opportunities to do so last Spring. As many of you know, the activation barrier to discussing a collaboration and actually performing it is quite high. This is particularly true when working to build international collaborations with different time zones, research areas, etc.
The GREET program opened a very important door and made it possible to spend time with our new collaborators and to discuss and plan extensively how to proceed. As I leave Grenoble, we have a very clear plan with defined action points and items that we will continue to develop. Further, I leave Mark behind to continue collecting preliminary experimental data, learning new techniques and making a new sensor protein that will form the basis for some of our future works. While it is possible that our groups would have still found the time and effort to collaborate, the GREET program enabled that opportunity to be accelerated and strengthened. So for that, I’d like to say a special THANK YOU to ACS, the ACS Office of International Activities and the GREET program staff.
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