Saturday, April 23rd , 2005

8:20 – 9:00 AM Breakfast, Registration, Poster Setup

9:00 – 11:50 AM

Moderator: Jenny J Yang

9:00: Edward Meigs Brown (Keynote Speaker), Membrane Biology Program, Harvard Institutes of Medicine

The Extracellular Calcium-Sensing Receptor: Guardian of Systemic Calcium Homeostasis

10:00: Vincent Rehder, Department of Biology, GSU

The Role of Calcium on Growth Cone Motility of Identified Snail Neurons

10:25: Elizabeth Finch, Department of Cell Biology, Emory

Dendritic Calcium Dynamics in Cerebellar Purkinje Neurons

10:50 – 11:00 AM Break

11:00: Clare Bergson, Department of Pharmacology/Toxicology, MCG

Mechanisms Underlying Gs-Gq Coupled GPCR Crosstalk

11:25: Jeffrey Urbauer, Department of Chemistry, UGA

Mediating Calcium Signaling by Methionine Oxidation: Nonproductive Interaction of Calmodulin with the Plasma Membrane Calcium-ATPase Following Oxidation of Methionine Residues in Calmodulin

11:50– 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 – 3:15 PM

Moderator: Paul S Katz

1:00: Jenny J Yang, Department of Chemistry, GSU

Design Calcium Binding Protein with Tailor Functions

1:25: Amy Lee, Department of Pharmacology, Emory

Calcium Binding Proteins as Essential Regulators of Voltage-gated Calcium Channels

1:50: Erick Lin, Department of Otolaryngology and Department of Cell Biology, Emory

Gap Junction Mediated Intercellular Biochemical Coupling in Cochlear Supporting Cells is Required for Normal Cochlear Functions.

2:15: Rajini Rao (Keynote Speaker), Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Secretory Pathway Ca(II)-ATPases: From Yeast to Human

3:30 – 5:30 PM Poster Session