George Wald memorial talk / Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald -- The ecology of visual pigments / James K. Bowmaker -- Vertebrate ancient (VA) opsin : a new vertebrate photopigment family -- Evolution of visual pigments and related molecules / Fumio Tokunaga ... [et al.] -- Structure of rhodopsin / Gebhard F.X. Schertler -- Photons, femtoseconds and dipolar interactions : a molecular picture of the primary events in vision / Richard A. Mathies -- Photoactiviation of rhodopsin : interplay between protein and chromophore / Willem J. DeGrip ... [et al.] -- Colour tuning mechanism of visual pigments / Steven W. Lin and Thomas P. Sakmar -- Amino acid residues controlling properties and functions of rod and cone visual pigments / Yoshinori Shichida and Hiroo Imai -- Signalling states of photoactivated rhodopsin / Klaus Peter Hofmann -- Molecular mechanism of visual transduction / Krzysztof Palczewski, Christophe L.M.J. Verlinde and Fran?coise Haeseleer -- Calcium-dependent regulation of rhodopsin phosphorylation / Satoru Kawamura -- The emerging role of mass spectrometry in molecular biosciences : studies of protein phosphorylation in fly eyes as an example / Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Esther S. Kahn and Naoka Komori -- Cyclic GMP-gated channel and peripherin/rds-rom-1 complex of rod cells / Robert S. Molday ... [et la.] -- Non-visual photoreception by a variety of vertebrate opsins / Daisuke Kojima and Yoshitaka Fukada.