Biophysical Society Subgroup information

Article 2
Objective: The objective of this Group is to promote the interchange of information about membranes between members of the Group and others interested in membranes, and to foster the advance of knowledge about membranes.

Article 3
Membership: A Group member is any Society member who submits his name to the Secretary-Treasurer and who has paid his dues for the current year.

Affiliates: An Affiliate is a non-member of the Society who submits his name to the Secretary-Treasurer and who has paid his dues for the current year. Affiliates will receive mailings to the Group and such other services or activities as may be made available to members. Affiliates may not vote or hold office.

Article 4
Dues: Dues may be assessed to cover the necessary expenses related to operation of the Group. The amount and means of collection are described in Article 12.

Article 5
Operation: The Group will be operated by the Group Chairman, an Advisory Committee consisting of four members, and a Secretary-Treasurer.

Duties of the Group Chairman are to organize and conduct Group Meetings, to advise the Biophysical Society of the activities and needs of the group, to advise the Society on matters related to membranes, and any other activities the Chairman deems to be beneficial to the group and to the Society.

Duties of the Advisory Committee are to advise the Group Chairman on the organization of Group meetings, and other matters of interest to the Group and to make nominations for their successors and for the group Chairman.

The Secretary-Treasurer will maintain adequate records of membership and finances, and carry on necessary correspondence. The Secretary-Treasurer is an ex-officio member of the Advisory Committee.

Article 6
Term of Office: The Group Chairman and members of the Advisory Committee will serve for one year. There is no fixed term of office for the Secretary-Treasurer.

Article 7
Eligibility for Office: Only members can be candidates. The Group Chairman and Advisory Committee members are ineligible for re-election for one year.

Article 8
Elections: It is the intent of the Group that the Chairmanship shall be rotated so as to fairly represent the different specialities within the membership.

The new Chairman shall be elected from a list of nominees composed of a nominee made by the retiring chairman and any other persons nominated by at least five members. The Secretary-Treasurer shall solicit nominations from the membership no less than thirty days prior to the election.

The Advisory Committee shall be selected by the Chairman from nominations made by members. It is the duty of the Chairman to select Advisory Committee members who represent the whole range of interests of the Group.

Article 9
Meetings: There shall be at least one meeting per year: The Annual Meeting at the time designated for Group meetings by the Council of the Biophysical Society.

Elections must be held at the Annual Meeting. Other business may be transacted by the Group at the Annual Meeting. A minimum of thirty days notice of the Annual Meeting such as publication in the Biophysical Society or Group Newsletters must be given.

Article 10
The members attending an Annual Meeting can transact Group business by a simple majority vote.

Article 11
Ammendments to the By-Laws: These By-Laws can be amended by a majority of members responding to a mail ballot.

Proposals for new or amended By-Laws shall be submitted to the Secretary- Treasurer for consideration at the Annual Meeting. Proposed amendments to the By-Laws may be placed on a mail ballot by a majority vote at the Annual Meeting or at the discretion of the Chairman.

Dues shall be collected from Group members by the Biophysical Society. Affiliates will be billed for dues directly by the Secretary-Treasurer.

Article 13
Expenditures: Any monies available to the Group may be expended by the Group Chairman for the three following purposes:

1. For direct expenses connected with the operation of the Group.
2. To Cover all or part of the expenses of persons invited to speak at the annual group meeting.
3. To fund the Kenneth S. Cole Award.
4. The Secretary-Treasurer may expend monies to cover the direct expenses associated with the office.

It is the policy and intent of the Membrane Biophysics Group to make an award annually to some investigator who has made a substantial contribution to knowledge of membranes.

The Award shall consist of a medal and a scroll or other appropriate symbols of the Award and such monies as are available to the Group.

The money to support this Award shall come from dues, voluntary contributions from members of the Membrane Biophysics Group and any other sources which may become available.

The recipient of the Award will be selected by the immediate past Group Chairman with the concurrence of the Chairman and Advisory Committee. Nominations may be made by any Group member. The only restrictions on the recipient are that he cannot be the immediate past Group Chairman, the Group Chairman, a member of the Advisory Committee, and shall not have previously received the Award. Nominations must contain a reasoned statement, adequately documented, of the qualifications of the nominee. The Selection Committee, each year, shall establish its own criteria for selection.

The Award should be presented by the immediate past Group Chairman or his designate at the Annual Group Meeting.

1975 Clay Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania; and
Bertil Hille, University of Washington

1980 Michael Edidin, Johns Hopkins University; and
Richard Cone, Johns Hopkins University

1981 Thomas Thompson, University of Virginia Health Science Center; and
Demetrios Papahadjhopoulos

1982 John Moore, Duke University Medical Center; and
Toshiro Narahashi, Northwestern University Medical Center

1988 Robert B. Gunn, Emory University School of Medicine; and
Philip A. Knauf, University of Rochester Medical Center

1989 Clara Franzini-Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; and
Knox Chandler, Yale University School of Medicine

2004 Lily Yeh Jan, Howard Hughes Institute, UCSF; and
Yuh Nung Jan, Howard Hughes Institute, UCSF
2005 Barbara E. Ehrlich, Yale University

Channel Gating Modifiers and Modulators

Eitan Reuveny, Weizmann Institute, Chair

1:00 – 5:00 p.m., Long Beach Convention Center

Saturday, February 2, 2008

1:00 Introduction

Eitan Reuveny, Weizmann Institute.

1:05 Post-translational modifications of voltage-gated K⁺ channels

Jeffery R. Martens, University of Michigan.

1:35 ThermoTRPs as sensors of temperature and botanical compounds

Ardem Patapoutian, Scripps Institute.

2:05 Structural insights into calcium channel modulation

Dan L. Minor, University of California, San Francisco.

2:35 Refreshment break

The subgroup would like to thank Icagen for sponsoring the refreshment break.

3:00 Composition and function of SK2 channel macromolecular signaling
complexes

Duane Allen, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University.

3:35 Molecular control of Kir channel-phosphoinositide interactions by intracellular Na ions

Diomedes E. Logothetis, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

4:05 Complex formation and conformational rearrangements of the G protein coupled K channels

Eitan Reuveny, Weizmann Institute.

4:35 Concluding Remarks

Eitan Reuveny, Weizmann Institute.

4:40 Brief subgroup business meeting to select Chair-elect

6:00 Subgroup Dinner and K.S. Cole Award presentation honoring William N. Zagotta, University of Washington. Dinner and presentation took place in the Sicilian Room at the Renaissance Long Beach Hotel, 111 East Ocean Boulevard.