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Emerging Concepts in Ion Channel Biophysics
Program Schedule
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7:00 PM
Welcome Dinner
Patio
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
8:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Registration/Information
Patio
Session IV
Mechanically-activated Ion Channels
William Zagotta, University of Washington, USA, Chair
9:00 AM - 9:25 AM
Jorg Grandl, Duke University, USA
Magnetic Force Probing of Mechanically-activated Piezo Ion Channels
9:25 AM - 9:45 AM
Elizabeth Heath-Heckman, University of California, Berkeley, USA*
Using Leeches to Discover Novel Ion Channels Involved in Mechanotransduction
9:45 AM - 10:10 AM
Miriam Goodman, Stanford University, USA
Genetics and Physics of in Vivo Mechanical Activation of Ion Channels
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
H. Peter Lu, Bowling Green University, USA*
Revealing NMDA Receptor Hidden Conformational Open States that Block
Electric Current under Agonist Activation in Living Cells by a Novel Single-
Molecule Patch-Clamp Fret Superresolution Microscopy
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Coffee Break
Patio
Session V
Modulation of Ion Channels
Sharona Gordon, University of Washington, USA, Chair
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM
Eitan Reuveny, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Regulation of Ion Channel Activity
11:15 AM - 11:40 AM
Ramón Latorre, University of Valparaiso, Chile
Modulation of the BK Channel by Auxiliary Subunits
11:40 AM - 01:30 PM
Lunch
(on own)
Session VI
Methods for the Study of Ion Channels I
Andrea Meredith, University of Maryland, USA, Chair
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM
Werner Treptow, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
Binding of General Anesthetics to Ion Channels
1:55 PM- 2:20 PM
Justin Taraska, NIH, USA
Imaging the Nanometer-scale Structure of the Plasma Membrane with
Correlative Superresolution Light and Electron Microscopy
2:20 PM - 2:45 PM
William Zagotta, University of Washington, USA
Molecular Mechanisms of Regulation of Ion Channels by Intracellular Domains
2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
Bruce Cohen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA*
Characterization of Dynamic Kv Channel-Toxin Structures
with Voltage Clamp Spectroscopy
3:05 PM - 5:05 PM
Poster Session II
Sala de Vestigios