Molecular Evolution in the Membrane: Ion Channels, Transporters, and Receptors

This meeting will provide a venue for scientists to share and discuss recent research on molecular evolution of ion channels, transporters, and receptors. The symposium will highlight mechanistic and structural work to understand the origins of functional diversity in transport and signaling proteins, and cover emerging approaches, including co-evolution and deep mutational scanning. SGP meetings are large enough to represent a diverse range of research areas and small enough to maximize individual discussions and foster collaborative interactions between students, postdoctoral fellows, early-career investigators, and established leaders in their fields.

Meeting Organizers
Lucy Forrest (National Institutes of Health)
Randy Stockbridge (University of Michigan)

Friends of Physiology Lecturer
 M. Madan Babu (St. Jude's Children's Hospital)

Invited Speakers

Antoniya Alexandrova (NIH/NINDS)
Linda Columbus (University of Virginia)
Willow Coyote-Maestas (UCSF)
Corrie daCosta (University of Ottawa)
Josefina del Mármol (Harvard University)
Arne Eloffson (Stockholm University)
José Feijó (University of Maryland)
Rachelle Gaudet (Harvard University)
Leon Islas (Univ. Nac. Autónoma de México)
Timothy Jegla (Penn State University)
Bjarke Jensen (Amsterdam University)
Rachel Kolodny (Haifa University)

Huong Kratochvil (University of North Carolina)
Andrei Lupas (Max Planck Institute)
Tim Lynagh (University of Bergen)
Denise Okafor (Penn State University)
Vatsan Raman (University of Wisconsin)
Krishna Reddy (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Janice Robertson (Washington University in St. Louis)
Jonathan Schlebach (Purdue University)
Rebecka Sepela (Harvard University)
Joanna Slusky (University of Kansas)
Harold Zakon (University of Texas Austin)