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

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