Upcoming events
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Ana Isabel Fernandez-Mariño (U Colorado)
4th March 2025: 12 - 1 pm ET (9 am PT / 5 pm GMT)
“Inactivation mechanisms in KV channels”
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Sandipan Chowdhury (U Iowa)
1st April 2025: 12 - 1 pm ET (9 am PT / 5 pm GMT)
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Amanda Lewis (Duke)
6th May 2025: 12 - 1 pm ET (9 am PT / 5 pm GMT)
"Piezo1 ion channels are capable of conformational signaling"
Previous events
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David Jones (U Michigan)
3 Sep 2024: 12 - 1 pm ET (9am PT / 5 pm GMT)
“A hERG1 potassium channel subunit regulates gene expression in developing cardiomyocytes”
Potassium channels and cardiac development
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Anand Saminathan (Harvard)
6th August 2024: 12 - 1 pm ET (9am PT / 5 pm GMT)
“Mechanism of calcium entry in lysosomes”
Endolysosomal transporters
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Emily Caseley (U Leeds)
2 July 2024: 12 - 1 pm ET (9am PT / 5 pm GMT)
KCNT1 channel pharmacology and virtual screening
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Sampurna Chakrabarti (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine)
4th June 2024: 12 - 1 pm ET (9am PT / 5 pm GMT)
“ Touch sensation requires the mechanically gated ion channel Elkin1.”
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Claudia Moreno (U Washington)
7th May 2024: 12 - 1 pm ET (9 am PT / 5 pm GMT)
Mechanisms of heart rate adaptability
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Fayal Abderemane (UCLA)
2nd April 2024: 12 - 1 pm ET (9 am PT / 5 pm GMT)
How to survive a toxic environment and benefit from it?
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Ashwini Hariharan (U Maryland Baltimore)
5th March 2024: 12 - 1 pm EST (9 am PST / 5 pm GMT)
“Pericyte electro-metabolic signaling controls blood flow in the brain.”
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Ying Yin (Duke)
6th February 2024: 12 - 1 pm ET (9 am PT / 5 pm GMT)
TRPM8 channel structure-function
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Alexandria Miller (U Iowa)
9th January 2023: 12 - 1 pm ET (9 am PT / 5 pm GMT)
Viral ion channels
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Corey Allard (Harvard)
5th December 2023: 12 - 1 pm EST (9 am PST /5 pm GMT)
Evolution, Sensory Biology, Ion Channels, Cephalopods, Structure
“Molecular mechanisms of sensory innovation”
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Leticia Galera-Laporta (UCSD)
7th November 2023: 12 - 1 pm EST (9am PST / 5 pm GMT)
Bacterial ion channels
“New Roles for Ion Channels in Bacteria.”
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Miguel Martín-Aragón Baudel (UC Davis)
3rd October 23 12 - 1 pm EST (9 am PST / 5 pm GMT)
Vascular calcium channels
“Control of vascular Cav1.2 dynamics in pathophysiology”
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Andrew Glazer (Vanderbilt U)
5th September 23 12 -1 pm EST (9 am PST ‘ 5 pm GM)
High-throughput genomics of cardiac arrythmias
“High-throughput mutational studies of cardiac voltage-gated ion channels”
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Swetha Murthy (Vollum)
11th July 23 12 - 1PM EST (9 am PST/5 pm GMT)
Mechanosensitive ion channels
“How do cells sense force and why is it important?”
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Tim Lynagh (U Bergen)
6th June 23 12 - 1PM EST (9 am PST/5 pm GMT)
“A TREEtise on DEG/ENaC and iGluR function”
The Lynagh lab uses molecular phylogenetics to dissect biophysical questions and biophysical experiments to inform our understanding of molecular evolution. In this talk I describe our most recent findings on delta-type ionotropic glutamate receptors and neuropeptide-gated DEG/ENaC channels.
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Willow Coyote-Maestas (UCSF)
2nd May 23 12 - 1PM EST (9 am PST/5 pm GMT)
“Uncovering the secret life of membrane proteins with mechanistic genetic screens.”
Allostery, Protein Engineering, Molecular Evolution, Ion Channels