Day 2: Wednesday July 31st, 2019

Theme 5: Glutamatergic and GABAergic Synapses: Structure

Chair: Dr. Teru Nakagawa, Vanderbilt University

• Ingo Greger (LMB, Cambridge, UK)

  Assembly and organization of heteromeric AMPA receptor complexes

• Radu Aricescu (LMB, Cambridge, UK)

  Structural basis for integration of GluD receptors within synaptic organizer complexes

• Jessica Nuwer (PhD Candidate, Fleck Lab, Albany Medical College, NY, USA)

  Chimeric analysis of GABAA subunits reveals anterograde trafficking signal

Theme 6: Synaptic Plasticity

Chair: Dr. Katherine Roche, NINDS

• Roger Nicoll (UCSF, California, USA)

  AMPA receptors, TARPs, C-tails, and LTP

• Tim Kennedy (McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada)

  Netrin-1 secretion drives synaptic insertion of hippocampal AMPA receptors

• Wayne Sossin (McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada)

  Short Talk: A role for Numb in Protein kinase M (PKM)-mediated increases in surface AMPA receptors during facilitation in Aplysia

Theme 7: Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors and Disease

Chair: Dr. Geoffrey Swanson, Northwestern University

• Lonnie Wollmuth (Stony Brook, NY, USA)

  Channelopathies in NMDA receptors

• Anis Contractor (Northwestern, Chicago, IL, USA)

  Ionotropic glutamate receptors in Fragile X syndrome

• Graham Pitcher (Research Associate, Salter Lab, Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada)

  Short Talk: GluN2 heterogeneity across individual primary afferent-lamina I neuron synapses differentially encodes spinal sensory input

Theme 8: Non-Glutamate Receptor Session

Chair: Dr. Pierre-Jean Corringer, Institut Pasteur

• Philip Biggin (University of Oxford, UK)

  Modelling the Elusive Open State of the Glycine Receptor

• Marc Gielen (Insitut Pasteur, Paris, France)

  Desensitization mechanism of GABAA receptors

• David MacLean (University of Rochester, NY, USA)

  Acid sensing ion channels

• John Baenziger (University of Ottawa, ON, Canada)

  The allosteric path leading from the lipid-protein interface of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor to a congenital myasthenic syndrome