Symposium: Molecular Mechanisms of Glutamate Receptor Signalling

Venue: Auditorium Centre Broca Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Organisation;
Jonathan Elegheert, IINS –
Daniel Choquet, IINS –
Christophe Mulle, IINS –

Program

9:30  Welcome remarks

9.45 – 10.45
Prof. Alexander Sobolevsky – Columbia University, New York, USA
“Structural mechanisms of AMPA receptor regulation and gating”

10.45 – 11.45
Dr. Ingo Greger – MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB), Cambridge, UK
“Assembly, structure and organisation of heteromeric AMPA receptor complexes”

11.45 – 12.30
Dr. Harold MacGillavry – University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
“Dissecting the dynamic organisation of metabotropic glutamate receptors at excitatory synapses”

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 14.00
Dr. Ingrid Chamma – CNRS / University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
“Nanoscale organisation of synaptic adhesion proteins”

14.00 – 14.30
Dr. Keiko Matsuda – Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
“A glutamate receptor complex across the synaptic cleft”

14.30 – 15.00
Dr. Kunimichi Suzuki – Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
“Building a bridge over troubled synapses”

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break

15.30 – 16.30
Prof. Bernd Fakler – University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
“Building and physiology of AMPA receptors encoded by their proteome”

16.30 – 17.30
Prof. Michisuke Yuzaki – Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
“Casting new light on synaptic plasticity using optogenetic tools”

17.30 – 17.35 – Closing remarks