Saturday |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Session: From GPCRs to Neurotransmitter Transporters: The Road
to Perdition, or Why 7TMs Were Not Enough |
| Discussion Leader: Jonas Mortensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) |
3:15 pm - 3:50 pm | Ulrik Gether (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) "From GPCRs to Neurotransmitter Transporters: The Road to Perdition, or Why 7TMs Were Not Enough" |
3:50 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Transporters - Structure and Function |
| Discussion Leader: Erica Cirri (Pasteur Institute, France) |
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm | Anne Nielsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) "Studying Conformational Dynamics of the Dopamine Transporter Using Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry" |
5:45 pm - 5:50 pm | Discussion |
5:50 pm - 6:05 pm | Fabian Garces (University of British Columbia, Canada) "Biochemical Analysis of Mutations in Transmembrane Domain One of hABCA4 Responsible for Stargardt Macular Degeneration" |
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm | Discussion |
6:10 pm - 6:25 pm | Bernice Wong (Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore) "Mfsd2a and Lysolipid Transport Across Retina-Blood Barriers" |
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm | Gergely Gyimesi (University of Bern, Switzerland) "Transport Mechanism of Divalent Metal Ion Transporters (SLC11 Family)" |
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm | Discussion |
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm | Richard Payne (John Innes Centre, United Kingdom) "Discovery of Intracellular Transporters at the Interface of Alkaloid and Terpene Biosynthesis" |
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm | Discussion |
7:10 pm - 7:30 pm | General Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Transporters - Physiology and Disease |
| Discussion Leader: Maria Cristina Plastina (York University, Canada) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Sonchita Bagchi (Uppsala University, Sweden) "New Approaches to Characterize Solute Carriers in Brain" |
9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
9:20 am - 9:35 am | Roger Chang (University of California, San Francisco, USA) "Direct Recordings of a Synaptic Vesicle Protein Essential for Excitatory Neurotransmission" |
9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Aparna Shekar (Vanderbilt University, USA) "Dopamine Transporter Dysfunction in Neuropsychiatric Disorders" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:15 am | Sijia Wu (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA) "A PRIME Labeling Approach for Investigating Dopamine Transporter Endocytic Trafficking in Dopaminergic Cell Lines and Neurons" |
10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10:35 am | Donna Dang (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA) "SPCA2's Role as an Epithelial Marker in Tumor Formation and in Breast Cancer Oncogenesis" |
10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am - 10:55 am | Alice Verchre (Weill Cornell Medicine, USA) "Identifying a Glycolipid Flippase Necessary for Protein N-Glycosylation" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Young Scientists
Career Workshop |
| Representatives from
the Pharmaceutical Industry and Academia will give an overview of job
opportunities for young scientists inside and outside the classical academic
setting. |
| Discussion Leader: Shane Austin (Medical University of Vienna, Austria) |
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm | Maria Waldhoer (Novo Nordisk A/S, Denmark) "Moving to the 'Dark Side' – An Austrian-Danish Transition" |
1:40 pm - 1:45 pm | Discussion |
1:45 pm - 1:55 pm | Andrew Brown (GlaxoSmithKline R&D Ltd., United Kingdom) "Falling Towards Industry" |
1:55 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
2:00 pm - 2:10 pm | Michael Freissmuth (Medical University of Vienna, Austria) "Academia - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" |
2:10 pm - 2:15 pm | Discussion |
2:15 pm - 2:25 pm | Bruno Castro (Nature Communications, United Kingdom) "Moving Away from the Bench: Career Opportunities in Science Writing and Publishing" |
2:25 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |