Emerging Concepts in Ion Channel Biophysics

Emerging Concepts in Ion Channel Biophysics

Program Schedule

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 Andrea Alessandrini, CNR-Institute of Nanoscience, Italy Lipid-protein Interactions in Model Membranes Toshinori Hoshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA Dietary Oils and BK Channels

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM

9:25 AM - 9:50 AM

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

Coffee Break

Patio

10:15 AM - 10:35 AM

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

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