Symposium Schedule

Saturday, March 22, 2014
9:00am - 5:00pm
245 Li Ka Shing Center

9:00-9:15         Diana Bautista and Polina Lishko, University of California, Berkeley
                        Welcome
                       
                        Ehud Isacoff, University of California, Berkeley
                        Opening Remarks

Session I: Calcium Dynamics                                      

9:15-9:55           David Clapham, Harvard Medical School
                        "Ion channels in primary cilia"
                       
9:55-10:35         Richard Lewis, Stanford School of Medicine
                        "Molecules in motion:  Trapping and gating of store-operated calcium channels"
           
10:35-10:55        BREAK

Session II: Sensory Biology

10:55-11:35        Marla Feller, University of California, Berkeley
                        "Cellular mechanisms underlying spontaneous patterned activity in developing neural circuits"

11:35-12:15        Jeffrey Holt, Harvard Medical School
                        "Are TMCs The Mechanotransduction Channels of the inner ear?"

12:15- 1:30        BREAK (lunch not provided)

Session III: TRPV Channels

1:30-2:10           David Julius, University of California, San Francisco
                        "TRP channels of the pain pathway: Connecting physiology to atomic structure"
           
2:10-2:50           Rachelle Gaudet, Harvard University
                        "Structural insights into TRPV channel function in health and disease"

2:50-3:05           BREAK

Session IV: Structural Insights into Channel Modalities

3:05-3:45           Dan Minor, University of California, San Francisco
                        "Structural and chemical biological insights into channel function"

3:45-4:25           William Catterall, University of Washington
                        "Structural basis for function of voltage-gated Na+ and Ca2+ channels"

4:30-4:40           Diana Bautista and Polina Lishko, University of California, Berkeley
                        Closing Remarks and Acknowledgements

4:40-5:45           RECEPTION

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