Emerging Concepts in Ion Channel Biophysics

Emerging Concepts in Ion Channel Biophysics

Program Schedule

Patio

7:00 PM

Welcome Dinner

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 Elizabeth Heath-Heckman, University of California, Berkeley, USA* Using Leeches to Discover Novel Ion Channels Involved in Mechanotransduction Miriam Goodman, Stanford University, USA Genetics and Physics of in Vivo Mechanical Activation of Ion Channels 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

9:25 AM - 9:45 AM

9:45 AM - 10:10 AM

10:10 AM - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

Patio

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

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

Lunch (on own)

11:40 AM - 01:30 PM

Session VI

Methods for the Study of Ion Channels I Andrea Meredith, University of Maryland, USA, Chair Werner Treptow, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Binding of General Anesthetics to Ion Channels

1:30 PM - 1:55 PM

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 William Zagotta, University of Washington, USA Molecular Mechanisms of Regulation of Ion Channels by Intracellular Domains

2:20 PM - 2:45 PM

2:45 PM - 3:05 PM

Bruce Cohen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA* Characterization of Dynamic Kv Channel-Toxin Structures with Voltage Clamp Spectroscopy

Poster Session II

Sala de Vestigios

3:05 PM - 5:05 PM

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