Subgroup Chair: Juan Du, Northwestern University, USA

Symposium Time:  1:30PM- 5:30PM PST

Symposium Room:  Room 201/202/203 

Business Meeting:  3:35PM - 3:40PM EST

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

 

1:35 PM Diana M Bautista, University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Role of Scn1b in Mechanosensory Signaling and Behavior

 

2:00 PM Charles Cox, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia
PIEZO Channel Auxiliary Subunits in Sensory and Non-Sensory Cells

 

2:25 PM Student/Postdoc Talk 1

 

2:40 PM Student/Postdoc Talk 2

 

2:55 PM Tian Hua, iHuman institute at ShanghaiTech University, China
Structural Pharmacology Studies of Human Taste Receptors

 

3:20 PM Break

 

3:35 PM Business Meeting

 

3:40 PM Eduardo Perozo, University of Chicago, USA
Mechanotransduction Mechanisms Underlying Piezoelectric Motor Function in Prestin

 

4:05 PM Thomas Voets, VIB Center for Brain & Disease Research, BELGIUM
Targeting TRPM3 - A Heat Sensor on Steroids

 

4:30 PM Student/Postdoc Talk 3

 

4:45 PM Flash Talks

 

5:00 PM Josefina del Marmol, Harvard University, USA
From Molecules to Mates: Structural Basis of Chemical Specificity in Insect Pheromone Receptors

 

5:27 PM Closing Remarks