Focus Session: Physical Models of Ion Channel Function

Presentations

• The metabolic energy cost of action potential velocity

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 8:00 AM – March 15, 2006, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Patrick Crotty

    • University of Virginia Health System

  • Thomas Sangrey

    • Emory University

  • William B Levy

    • University of Virginia Health System
    • University of Virginia

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• The Dependence of Ionic Conduction on the Dielectric Properties of Ion Channels

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 8:12 AM – March 15, 2006, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Marco Saraniti

  • David Marreiro

    • Illinois Institute of Technology

  • Shela Aboud

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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• Rocking and Flashing Ratchet Mechanisms of Ion Current Rectification in Asymmetric Nanopores in the Presence of Calcium

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 8:24 AM – March 15, 2006, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Zuzanna Siwy

  • Matthew Powell

  • Eric Kalman

    • Univ. of California, Irvine

  • Robert Eisenberg

    • Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
    • Molecular Biophysics: Rush University

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• Ion selectivity in the ryanodine receptor and other calcium channels.

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 15, 2006, 8:36 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Dirk Gillespie

    • Rush University Medical Center

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• Modeling Activity: Ions to Hydrophobics in Crowded Biological Solutions

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 9:12 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Montgomery Pettitt

    • University of Houston

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• Entropy driven insulator-metal crossover in ion channels and water filled nanopores

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 9:24 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Jingshan Zhang

  • Alex Kamenev

  • Boris Shklovskii

  • Anatony Larkin

    • University of Minnesota

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• Measurement of gating forces of mechanosensitive channels of large conductance in \textit{Escherichia coli}

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 9:36 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Elvis Pandzic

  • Paul Wiseman

    • McGill University

  • Maria Kilfoil

    • Physics McGill
    • McGill University

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• Calculating Ion Permeation through Biological Channel Proteins

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 15, 2006, 9:48 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Rob Coalson

    • University of Pittsburgh

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• Morphometric approach to selectivity and gating of ion channels

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 10:24 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Roland Roth

    • MPI fuer Metallforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany

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• Voltage Sensor in Voltage-gated ion channels

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 10:36 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Francisco Bezanilla

    • Institute for Molecular Pediatric Science. University of Chicago

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