7 第37回 生理研国際シンポジウム プログラム

Electro-chemical signaling by membrane proteins
-- biodiversity and principle --

SOKENDAI International Symposium, 37th SEIRIKEN International Symposium, 2nd Symposium on the Partnership Project on “Frontiers of Membrane Protein Research”(IPR-OIIB)
March 14-16, 2007
National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan

March 14
Kenjiro Yoshimura (Tsukuba University)
“Mechanosensitive channel responds to and resists the membrane stretch”
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi (Kyoto University)
“Significance of multifunctional channels”
Francisco Bezanilla (University of Chicago)
Special Lecture 1: “The operation of the voltage sensor ”
Ehud Y. Isacoff (University of California at Berkeley)
“Sensing voltage”
Peter Larsson (Oregon Health Science University)
“Mechanisms of voltage activation in hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels”
March 15
Hideki Kandori (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
“Mechanism of light-driven proton and chloride-ion pumps”
Takeshi Murata (JST ERATO Iwataproject)
“Ion transport mechanism of V-ATPase”
Tomitake Tsukihara (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University)
“Proton pumping coupled with dioxygen reduction of cytochrome c oxidase”
Gunnar von Heijne (Stockholm University)
Special Lecture2: “Membrane protein assembly”
Andy Spencer (University of Alberta)
“Potassium channel diversity in lower metazoans - relating structure to voltage sensitivity and physiological function”
Yasushi Okamura (Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, NIPS, NINS)
“Biodiversity of voltage sensor domain proteins”
Yoshihiro Kubo (NIPS, NINS)
“Voltage and [ATP]- dependent ”gating“ of ATP receptor channel P2X2”
March 16(Fri)
Thomas DeCoursey (Rush University Medical Center)
“pH- and voltage-dependent gating enables voltage-gated proton channels to perform their physiological functions”
Ai-Sun Tseng (Forsyth institute and Harvard School of Dental Medicine)
“Biophysical control of tail regeneration in Xenopus”
PaulKemp (Cardiff School of Biosciences)
“Potassium channel protein partners: gas sensing in the nervous system”
Makoto Tominaga (Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, NIPS, NINS)
“Thermosensitive TRP channels: their structure- function relationship and physiological significance”
Gisela Wilson (University of Michigan)
“EAG potassium channels: new functions for voltage-sensing”
Poster session
Jianmin Cui (Washington University)
“Interaction between the Voltage-Sensor and Cytosolic Domain in BK Channels ”
Ming Zhou (Columbia University)
“Functional Coupling between Voltage-Dependent Potassium Channel and Aldo-keto Reductase”