Program

XVIISOCM_2019 Program

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Sunday, December 8

Time Session/Lecture info
12:00-14:00
Registration & Light lunch
 
14:00-14:20
Introductory Remarks and Greetings
 
14:00-14:20
Lili Anglister, Jerusalem - Chair of the Organizing Committee
Hermona Soreq, Jerusalem - Chair of the ISCM International Advisory Board – Greetings and words in memory of Alex Karczmar
Rony Paz, Rehovot - Greetings on behalf of the Weizmann Institute
14:20-15:05
Keynote EMBO session
 
14:20-14:25
Israel Silman , Rehovot
Introduction
14:25-15:05
Jean-Pierre Changeux , Paris
The EMBO Lecture: Nicotinic modulation of higher brain functions
15:05-18:15
Session 1: Nicotinic receptors – structure/function
Chairs: Victor Tsetlin, Moscow & Sara Fuchs, Rehovot 
15:05-15:25
Ryan Hibbs , Dallas
Atomic-scale mechanisms of nicotine at the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
15:25-15:45
Pierre-Jean Corringer , Paris
Pharmacological investigation of the fifth subunit of nAChRs
15:45-16:05
Thomas Balle , Sydney
Insights in α4β2 nAChR modulation from mutational studies and molecular dynamics simulations
16:05-16:35
Coffee break
16:35-16:55
Roger L Papke , Gainesville
Allosteric activation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
16:55-17:15
Victor Tsetlin , Moscow
Three-finger proteins from snakes and humans acting on nicotinic receptors: old and new
17:15-17:35
Andreas Meisel , Berlin
Stroke immunology – a cholinergic perspective
17:35-17:55
Edna Pereira , Baltimore
A Tribute to Edson Albuquerque?s Life and Research
17:55-18:15
Michael London , Jerusalem
The functional role of cortical CHAT-expressing neurons in comparison to other local CHAT neurons in the forebrain
18:15-20:15
Cocktail reception
 

Organizing committee

  • Lili Anglister (Chair)
    Jerusalem

  • John Dani
    Philadelphia
  • Abraham Fisher
    Rehovot
  • Dan Frenkel
    Tel Aviv
  • Ezio Giacobini
    Geneva
  • Claire Legay
    Paris
  • Marco Prado
    London, Ontario
  • Jackie Schiller
    Haifa
  • Israel Silman
    Rehovot
  • Hermona Soreq
    Jerusalem
  • Joel Sussman
    Rehovot
  • Palmer Taylor
    La Jolla
  • Karl Tsim
    Hong Kong
  • Ran Zichel
    Ness Ziona

Sponsors

  • weizmann institute of science
  • The Chorafas Institute for Scientific Exchange
  • Dr. Barry Sherman Institute for Medicinal Chemistry
  • The Belle S & Irving E Meller Center for the Biology of Aging
  • Benoziyo Centre for Neurological Diseases
  • Deans of Biology & Biochemistry
  • Department of Neurobiology
  • Dean of Chemistry
  • The Helen and Milton a. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly
  • The Joseph and Ceil Mazer Center for Structural Biology
  • The hebrew university of jerusalem

Conference Coordinator

Irit Veksler
irit.veksler@weizmann.ac.il