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