Subgroup Chair: Seok-Yong Lee, Duke University, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 207/208  

Business Meeting:  10:40 AM - 11:00 AM PST

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Maria Kurnikova, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Modeling Structure Informed Function in Tetrameric Ion Channels

 

9:05 AM Student/Postdoc Talk:Arnav Paul, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Mechanistic Insights into Glucose Transport for PFHT1 from Molecular Dynamics and Graph Attention Models

 

9:20 AM Robert Edwards, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Allosteric Regulation of Synaptic Vesicle Glutamate Transport

 

9:50 AM Flash Tlaks:

Xiaofeng Tan NINDS, USA
Structural Basis of Fast N-Type Inactivation in Kv Channels

 

Janina Sormann, University of Copenhagen, DENMARK
Targeting hASIC1A in Stroke with Deep Learning-Generated Miniproteins

 

Michael Fabrizio, University of Florida, USA
Cryo-EM Structure of TRPM1 reveals a Non-Canonical Architecture with an Inverted Transmembrane Domain

 

10:10 AM Joel Butterwick, Yale University, USA
How Insects Taste Sweet: A Molecular Mechanism for Sugar Selectivity

 

10:40 AM Break/ Business Meeting

 

11:00 AM Jiansen Jiang, NIH, USA
Molecular Basis of Transport and Activity Regulation of Renal Drug Transporter OAT1

 

11:30 AM Student/Postdoc Talk: Justin Fedor, Duke University, USA
Insecticide Control of Function and Assembly of the heteromeric Insect TRP channel Nanchung-Inactive

 

11:45 PM Chris Miller Awardee Lecture: Jue Chen, Rockefeller University, USA
ABC Transporters: How a Common Engine Drives Diverse Functions