Schedule and Oral Presentations

Dec 5 (Wed)18:30 - 20:30

Reception party for invited speakers & informal discussion (New Grand Hotel)(Presentation (+ discussion) time is 30 (+ 10) min, if not stated otherwise.)Dec 6 (Thu)
9:00 - 9:05

Opening remarks

Keiji Imoto (Director General, NIPS)
9:05 - 9:10

Introduction

Yasuo Mori (Kyoto)

Session 1

Special lecture

9:10 - 10:05

Ion channel wonderland(Chair : Yasuo Mori)

Keiji Imoto (NIPS)

45 + 10 min

10:05 -10:15

Short break

Session 2

Potassium channels & HCN channels

10:15 - 10:55

New insights into basic properties of the strong inward rectifier K channel(Chair : Shigetoshi Oiki)+Keiko Ishihara (Kurume)
10:55 - 11:35

Direct neurotransmitter activation of voltage-gated potassium channels

Geoffrey Abbott (Irvine, USA)11:35 - 12:15

Molecular mechanisms of voltage- and ligand-gating in HCN channels

Baron Chanda (Madison, USA)12:15 - 12:55

1 min Flash Talks of Poster Presentations #1 (odd numbers)

12:55 - 13:05

Group Photo

13:05 - 14:10

Lunch & Poster viewing

Session 3

Membrane & membrane proteins

14:10 - 14:50

Cell surface flip-flop of phosphatidylserine is critical for PIEZO1-mediated myotube formation(Chair : Emily Liman)

Yuji Hara (Kyoto)
14:50 - 15:30

Mechanisms and physiological roles of voltage-sensing phosphatase

Yasushi Okamura (Suita)
15:30 - 15:50

Coffee breakSession 4

Cutting-edge methodologies

15:50 - 16:30

A microsensing system for the in vivo real-time monitoring of local drug kinetics(Chair : Daniel Minor)

Hiroshi Hibino (Niigata)16:30 - 17:10

Renovating lipid bilayer systems for studying channel-membrane interplays

Shigetoshi Oiki (Fukui)
17:10 - 17:50

Molecular movie of bacteriorhodopsin captured by a femtosecond x-ray laser

So Iwata (Kyoto)
18:30 - 20:30

Dinner for invited speakers & informal discussion

Dec 7 (Fri)
Session 5

TRP channels

9:00 - 9:40

Structure and function of thermosensitive TRP channels(Chair : Michael Zhu)

Makoto Tominaga (NIPS)
9:40 -10:20

Changes in redox status activate TRP channels: underlying mechanisms and its significanceYasuo Mori (Kyoto)
10:20 - 10:40

Coffee break

Session 6

Special lecture

10:40 - 11:35

Acute oxygen sensing: Mitochondrial signaling to membrane ion channels(Chair : Keiji Imoto)

José López-Barneo (Seville, Spain)
11:35 - 11:45

Short break

Session 7

Organella channels

11:45 - 12:25

Roles of mitochondrial Ca2+45 + 10 min(Chair : José López-Barneo)
channels/transporters in cellular functions

Ayako Takeuchi (Fukui)
12:25 - 13:05

1 min Flash Talks of Poster Presentations #2 (Even numbers)

13:05 - 14:10

Lunch & Poster viewing

14:10 - 14:50

Structural basis of function and regulation of the endolysosomal calcium channel TRPML3

Jian Yang (New York, USA)

Session 8Potassium channels

14:50 - 15:30

Infrared spectroscopy for analyzing ion-protein interactions of ion channels(Chair : Geoffrey Abbott)

Yuji Furutani (Nagoya)
15:30 -15:50

Coffee break

15:50 - 16:30

Ion channel chemical biology:
Driving a wedge into the heart of a temperature-sensitive ion channel

Daniel Minor (San Francisco, USA)

16:30 - 17:10

Heteromerization of K2P channels: from physiology to physiopathology

Guillaume Sandoz (Nice, France)

Session 9

Poster session

17:10 - 19:00

Poster session with coffee

19:00 - 20:45

Party for all participants & informal discussion

Dec 8 (Sat)Session 10
9:00 - 9:40

Sodium channels(Chair : Baron Chanda)

Voltage-gated Na channel -The structural function relationship and the channelopathy -Tomoya Kubota (Suita)+

9:40 - 10:20

Molecular mechanisms of the depolarization-induced potentiation of Two-Pore Na channel 3(TPC3)

Takushi Shimomura (NIPS)
10:20 - 10:40

Session 11
10:40 - 11:20

Coffee break

New channels and taste perception (Chair : Yasushi Okamura)
Otopetrins encode proton-selective ion channels in the taste system

Emily Liman (Los Angeles, USA)
11:20 - 12:00

CALHMs: Fast-activating voltage-gated ATP channels for rapid purinergic neurotransmission

Akiyuki Taruno (Kyoto)
12:00 - 13:00

Session 12
13:00 - 13:40

Lunch & Poster viewing

Ion channels in synaptic transmission(Chair : Jian Yang)

Structural mechanisms of gating in ionotropic glutamate receptors

Alexander Sobolevsky (New York, USA)13:40 - 14:20

Presynaptic ion channels and plasticity

Lu-Yang Wang (Toronto, Canada)
14:20 - 15:00

Excitatory neurotransmission mediated by TRPC4 channels

Michael Zhu (Houston, USA)
15:00 - 15:05Closing remarks

Keiji Imoto (Director General, NIPS)