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Force-Gated Ion Channels: From Structure to Sensation
May 18 - 21, 2008

Recent structural data has shed new light on the mechanism of action of mechanically gated channels in prokaryotes. Genetics of simple animals like worms and flies has revealed good candidates for mechanically gated channels that mediate touch sensation in eukaryotes. Still unclear are what channels underlie senses like hearing and touch in mammals, and how any of the eukaryotic channels gate in response to mechanical force. This meeting will bring together structural and sensory biologists working at all different levels of mechanosensation, to focus on the mechanisms of mechanical sensing by ion channels.

  • ORGANIZERS:

    David Corey, Harvard/HHMI

    Ellen Lumpkin, Baylor College of Medicine

  • TO ATTEND:

    Applications are no longer being accepted for the Spring 2008 Conference Program.

  • INVITED PARTICIPANTS:

    Charles Bourque
    Centre for Research in Neuroscience
    McGill University

    David Corey
    Department of Neurobiology
    Harvard Medical School/HHMI

    Peter Gillespie
    Oregon Hearing & Research Center, Vollum Institute
    Oregon Health and Science University

    Miriam B. Goodman
    Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
    Stanford University School of Medicine

    Martin Gopfert
    Volkswagen Foundation Research Group
    Universitat zu Koln

    Owen P. Hamill
    Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
    University of Texas Medical Branch

    Eric Honore
    Department of Cardiovascular Physiopathology
    Institut de Pharmacologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire

    Jonathon Howard
    Institute for Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics
    Max Planck Institute, Dresden

    A. James Hudspeth
    Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience
    Rockefeller University/HHMI

    Changsoo Kim
    School of Biological Sciences and Technology
    Chonnam National University

    Ching Kung
    Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology
    University of Wisconsin

    Ellen A. Lumpkin
    Department of Neuroscience
    Baylor College of Medicine

    Pascal Martin
    Physical Chemistry Group
    Institut Curie/CNRS

    Christopher Moore
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Ulrich Mueller
    Department of Cell Biology
    The Scripps Research Institute

    Teresa A. Nicolson
    Department of Neurosciences
    The Vollum Institute/HHMI

    Bernd Nilius
    Department of Molecular Cell Biology
    Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

    Anthony Ricci
    Department of Otolaryngology
    Stanford University School of Medicine

    Marcos Sotomayor
    Department of Physics
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Sergei Sukharev
    Department of Biology
    University of Maryland

    Dan Tracey
    Program in Genetics and Genomics
    Duke University

    John N. Wood
    Department of Biology
    University College London

    Shawn Xu
    Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
    University of Michigan

    Charles S. Zuker
    Department of Biology
    University of California San Diego/HHMI