Center For Membrane Protein Research Annual Meeting 2011

Seminars are open to the public

Tuesday, October 4, 2011- Room ACB 120, 2:00PM - 4:15PM

2:00PM - 2:15PM	Welcome by Douglas Stocco, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Executive Vice President for Research, Professor of Cell Biology and Biochemistry
2:15PM - 3:15PM	Keynote talk by Dr. Francisco Bezanilla, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, "Sensing voltage in membrane proteins"
3:30PM - 4:15PM	Dr. Bryan Sutton, Assoc. Professor of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, TTUHSC, "3D structure of human dysferlin and its implications in LImb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy"

Tuesday, October 4, 2011- 2nd floor lobby of the ACB, 4:30PM - 6:30PM

4:30PM - 6:00PM

Poster Session

Wednesday, October 5, 2011- Room ACB 120, 1:30PM - 5:30PM

1:30PM - 1:45PM	Welcome by Tedd Mitchell, M.D., President, TTUHSC
1:45PM - 2:30PM	Dr.Luis Cuello, Asst. Professor of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, TTUHSC, " Toward an atomic structural interpretation of the gating mechanism in K+ channels "
2:30PM - 3:15PM	Dr. Lan Guan, Asst. Professor of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, TTUHSC, " Symport mechanism of a bacterial Na+-coupled melibiose permease"
3:15PM - 4:00PM	Dr. Joachim Weber, Assoc. Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, TTU, "Chemical Coupling in ATP Synthase"
4:00PM - 4:45PM	Dr.Michaela Jansen, Asst. Professor of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, TTUHSC, "Studies of Prokaryotic-Eukaryotic Cys-Loop Receptor Chimeras "
4:45PM - 5:30PM	Dr. Jose Perez-Zoghbi, Asst. Professor of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, TTUHSC, " Regulation of Smooth Muscle Contraction in Small Intrapulmonary Airways, Arteries and Veins"

Last revised, October 13, 2011