The 2007 Lectures in Biology: Channels and Channelopathies

Peter Agre
Vice Chancellor for Science & Technology, Duke University Medical Center
Nobel Prize (2003) in Chemistry

Giuliano Avanzini
Professor, Clinical Neuroscience Department,
Italian National Neurological Institute "Carlo Besta",Milano

Ernesto Carafoli
Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry,
University of Padova

Andreas Engel
Professor, M.E. Muller Insitute for Structural Biology, Biozentrum,
University of Basel

Per Kjellbom
Professor, Center for Molecular Protein Science,
Lund University

Douglas Rees
Professor, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology

Nektarios Tavernarakis
Principal Investigator,
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Crete

Monday 2 July	09:00 -09:45	r g i s t r a t i o n
	09:45 - 10:00	Welcome speech by G.Thireos, Director of IMBB/ FORTH
	10:00 - 11:00	"Aquaporin Water Channels : From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine"   by  Peter Agre
	11:00 - 11:15	B r e a k
	11:15 - 12:15	"Aquaporin Water Channels : From Atomic Structure to Clinical Medicine"   by  Peter Agre references:1, 2
	12:15 - 12:30	B r e a k
	12:30 - 14:00	"Aquaporin Gating"   by Per Kjelbom
	14:00	L u n c h
Tuesday 3 July	09:30 - 10:45	> "Expression, Purification and 2D Crystallization of Channels"
	10:45 - 11:15	B r e a k
	11:15 - 12:30	> "Electron Crystallography of Aquaporins" by > Other references: 1, 2
	12:30 - 14:00	Lunch B r e a k
	14:00 - 15:30	> "The Ambivalent Nature of the Calcium Signal: Calcium Channels and Disease" by Ernesto Carafol i
Wednesday 4 July	09:30 - 10:45	> "Epileptogenic Channelopathies, a Combined Biomolecular and Neurophysiological Approach" by Giuliano Avanzini
	10:45 - 11:15	B r e a k
	11:15 - 12:30	> "Epileptogenic Channelopathies, relationships Between Genotype and Phenotype"  by Giuliano Avanzini
	12:30 - 14:00	L u n c h  B r e a k
	20:00	"Life in Science: Scientific Achievement from Societal Investment" by  Peter Agre - PUBLIC LECTURE
Thursday 5 July	09:30 - 10:45	"Principles of Membrane Protein Structure" by  Douglas rees
	10:45 - 11:15	B r e a k
	11:15 - 12:30	"Structural Studies of Channels and Transporters" by  Douglas rees
	12:30 - 14:00	L u n c h
Friday 6 July	09:30 - 11:15	"The DEG/ENaC Family of Ion Channels: Diverse roles in Sensory Transduction and Integration"  by  Nektarios Tavernarakis
	11:15 - 11:45	B r e a k
	11:45 - 12:30	Closing remarks
	12:30-14:00	L u n c h