Emerging Concepts in Ion Channel Biophysics
Program Schedule
6
6:00 PM - 6:25 PM
Nancy Carrasco, Yale University, USA
Structure of Membrane Transporters
6:25 PM - 6:50 PM
Crina Nimigean, Cornell University, USA
Gating and Ligand Modulation in Potassium Channels
6:50 PM - 7:10 PM
Michael Grabe, University of California, San Francisco, USA *
Atomistic Insight into Lipid Translocation by a TMEM16 Scramblase
Friday, October 13, 2017
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Registration/Information
Patio
Session X
Lipids and Membrane Proteins
Crina Nimigean, Cornell University, USA, Chair
9:00 AM - 9:25 AM
Andrea Alessandrini, CNR-Institute of Nanoscience, Italy
Lipid-protein Interactions in Model Membranes
9:25 AM - 9:50 AM
Toshinori Hoshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dietary Oils and BK Channels
9:50 AM - 10:15 AM
Raimund Dutzler, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Mechanistic Relationships in the TMEM16 Family of Calcium-activated Chloride
Channels and Lipid Scramblases
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM
Coffee Break
Patio
Session XI
Mechanisms II
Andrés Jara-Oseguera, NIH, USA
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM
Yasushi Okamura, Osaka University, Japan
Coupling Mechanisms of Voltage-sensing Phosphatase
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Paul DeCaen, Northwestern University, USA *
Defining ADPKD-2 Mutation Effects on Ciliary PKD2 Ion Channels
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM
Richard Aldrich, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Closing Remarks and BJ Poster Awards Presentation
*Contributed talks selected from among submitted abstracts