SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome from the conference chair |
7:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Keynote Lecture |
7:40 pm - 8:40 pm | Wayne A. Hendrickson (Columbia University, New York, USA)
"Structural views on and of ligand stimulation of membrane receptors" |
8:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:45 am - 12:30 pm | Bacterial Carriers |
| Discussion Leader: William N. Zagotta |
8:45 am - 9:25 am | Carola Hunte (MPI-Frankfurt, Germany)
"Structure and insights into mechanism of the sodium/proton antiporter NhaA" |
9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
9:35 am - 10:15 am | Satinder K. Singh (Oregon Health & Science Univ., Portland, USA)
"Structural and functional studies of a bacterial homologue of Na+/Cl- -dependent neurotransmitter transporters" |
10:15 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:25 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
10:50 am - 11:30 am | Robert M.B. Stroud (Univ. California, San Francisco, USA)
"A two billion year old tale of transmembrane transport for NH3 and H2O: The principle of selective exclusion" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:20 pm | Susan Buchanan (NIH, NIDDK, Bethesda, USA)
"Transport of large and small molecules across bacterial outer membranes" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Recognition in G-Protein Coupled Receptors |
| Discussion Leader: Wayne A. Hendrickson (Columbia Univ., New York, USA) |
5:30 pm - 6:10 pm | Jean-Louis Baneres (CNRS, Montpellier, France)
"Cooperative activation in GPCR dimers" |
6:10 pm - 6:20 pm | Discussion |
6:20 pm - 7:00 pm | Martin Lohse (Univ. Würzburg, Germany)
"Optical methods for the analysis of GPCR activation" |
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:45 am - 12:30 pm | Structure of Cyclic Nucleotide-Sensitive Channels |
| Discussion Leader: Susan Buchanan (NIH, NIDDK, Bethesda, MD, USA) |
8:45 am - 9:25 am | William N. Zagotta (Univ. Washington, USA)
"Structure and dynamics of cyclic nucleotide-regulated ion channels" |
9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
9:35 am - 10:15 am | Joao H. Morais-Cabral (Yale Univ., New Haven, USA)
"Ligand activation of ion transport" |
10:15 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 11:30 am | Reinhard Seifert (FZ Jülich, Germany)
"Ligand binding and molecular gating of a cyclic nucleotide-activated channel" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:20 pm | Steve A. Siegelbaum (Columbia Univ., New York, USA)
"Gating of HCN and CNG channels by voltage and ligands" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Poster Session |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Unconventional Signaling Pathways |
| Discussion Leader: Gebhard F.X. Schertler (MRC, Cambridge, UK) |
5:30 pm - 6:10 pm | Clemens Steegborn (Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Germany)
"The metabolic sensor 'soluble adenylyl cylcase' - Molecular mechanisms of activation and inhibition" |
6:10 pm - 6:20 pm | Discussion |
6:20 pm - 7:00 pm | Peter Hegemann (Humboldt-Univ., Berlin, Germany)
"Channel rhodopsin; light recognition and molecular gating" |
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cl- Channels and Cl- Carriers |
| Discussion Leader: Michael D. Cahalan (Univ. California, Irvine, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Tsung-Yu Chen (Univ. California, Davis, USA)
"Electrostatics in the pore of CLC-O" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Michael Pusch (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Genova, Italy)
"Biophysics and pharmacology of transporters and channels of the CLC family" |
11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 12:00 pm | Christopher Miller (Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA, USA)
"CLC channels, through a transporter glass, darkly" |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
5:30 pm - 6:50 pm | Rhodopsin and Rhodopsin-Like Molecules |
| Discussion Leader: Klaus-Peter Hofmann (HU Univ. Berlin, Charite, Germany) |
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Ulrike Alexiev (Free Univ., Berlin, Germany)
"Retinal proteins: 2D-visualisation of surface dynamics and conformational changes on the nanoscale" |
6:00 pm - 6:10 pm | Discussion |
6:10 pm - 6:40 pm | Gebhard F.X. Schertler (MRC Laboratory, Cambridge, UK)
"Structure of a rhdopsin mutant with increased thermal stability and implications of the metarhodopsin I structure for the activation of GPCRs" |
6:40 pm - 6:50 pm | Discussion |
6:50 pm - 7:30 pm | Keynote Lecture |
6:50 pm - 7:20 pm | Rod MacKinnon (Rockefeller Univ., New York, USA)
"Voltage-dependent K+ channels" |
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Voltage-Sensing Ion Channels |
| Discussion Leader: Chris Miller (Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Francisco Bezanilla (Univ. California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Voltage gating in ion channels" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Benoit Roux (Cornell Univ., New York, USA)
"Voltage-gating of potassium channels: Common grounds" |
11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 12:00 pm | David Clapham (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)
"TRP ion channel developments" |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
5:30 pm - 6:20 pm | Hot Topic News |
| Discussion Leader: David Clapham (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA) |
5:30 pm - 6:10 pm | Michael D. Cahalan (Univ. California, Irvine, USA)
"Regulation of calcium release-activated calcium (CRAC) channels in T lymphocytes by STIM1" |
6:10 pm - 6:20 pm | Discussion |
6:20 pm - 7:10 pm | Rhodopsin and Rhodopsin-Like Molecules |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
6:20 pm - 7:00 pm | Patrick Hogan (CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Boston, MA)
"A mutation in Orai1 causes immune deficiency by abrogating CRAC channel function" |
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |