Subgroup Chair: Hiro Furukawa, Cold Spring Harbor Lab, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30-5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  113AB

Business Meeting:  5:00 - 5:30 PM EST

Speakers:

1:35 PM Nancy Carrasco, Vanderbilt University, USA
Structural Insights into the Mechanism of the Sodium/Iodide Symporter (NIS)

 

2:00 PM Corey Allard, Harvard University, USA
Molecular Mechanisms of Sensory Innovation

 

2:20 PM Jean-Ju Chung, Yale University, USA
Assembly of the Sperm Calcium Signaling Nanodomains

 

2:45 PM Andrew Kruse, Harvard University, USA
Using Antibody Fragments to Investigate G Protein-Coupled Receptor Structure and Function

 

3:15 PM Vanessa Ruta, Rockefeller University, USA
Making Sense of Scents: Structural Insights into Odor Detection

 

3:40 PM Philip Biggin, Oxford University, USA
Understanding Transport Processes with Simulation

 

4:05 PM Ana Fernandez-Marino, National Institutes of Health, USA
Structures of the Kv2.1 Channel and Mechanism of Inactivation Through Electromechanical Coupling

 

4:25 PM Raimund Dutzler, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Substrate Selectivity in Pro- and Eukaryotic Members of the SLC11/NRAMP Family of Transition Metal Ion Transporters