Exploring recent publications in ion channel and excitability research, from fundamental mechanisms to disease
The Ion Channels Journal Club is a core activity of the Center for the Investigation of Membrane Excitability Diseases (CIMED).
When: 1:00p Mondays
Where: Zoom conference
Organizer: Paula Reynolds (CIMED)
2021/2022 Schedule
September – November
CANCELLED – September 20, 2021
Erik Nolan (Ben-Shahar lab, WashU Biology)
September 27, 2021
Mark Arcario (Cheng lab, WashU Anesthesiology)
“A Streamlined, General Approach for Computing Ligand Binding Free Energies and Its Application to GPCR-Bound Cholesterol” J. Chem. Theory Comput. (2018)
October 11, 2021
Juan Hong (Sah lab, WashU Medicine)
“The Mechanosensitive Piezo1 Channel Mediates Heart Mechano-chemo Transduction” Nature Communications (2021)
October 18, 2021
Nicole Migotsky (Silva lab, WashU Orthopaedic Surgery)
“Mechanosensitive Ca2+ Signaling and Coordination is Diminished in Osteocytes of Aged Mice During Ex Vivo Tibial Loading” Connective Tissue Research (2020)
CANCELLED – October 25, 2021
Nathan Zelt (Robertson lab, WashU Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics)
November 8, 2021
Kaitlyn Broz (Tang lab, WashU Orthopaedic Surgery)
“Mechanotransduction Via the Piezo1-Akt Pathway Underlies Sost Suppression in Osteocytes” Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (2020)
CANCELLED – November 15, 2021
Sudlow Lee (Berezin lab, WashU Radiology)
November 22, 2021
Vinaykumar Idikuda (Chanda lab, WashU Anesthesiology)
“Single-Molecule Imaging With Cell-Derived Nanovesicles Reveals Early Binding Dynamics at a Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Ion Channel” Nature Communications (2021)
November 29, 2021
Bridget Matikainen-Ankney (Kravitz lab, WashU Psychiatry)
“Diet-induced Obesity Enhances Prelimbic Inputs Onto Accumbal D1-SPNs and Increases Effort of Food Seeking”
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December 13, 2021
Jonathan Mount (Yuan lab, WashU Cell Biology & Physiology)
“Identification of mutations that alter the gating of the Escherichia coli mechanosensitive channel protein, MscK” Molecular Microbiology (2007)
CANCELLED – December 20, 2021
Verena Burtscher (Chanda lab, WashU Anesthesiology)
