[visionlist] Call for Posters: Rhodopsin - Advances & Perspectives

[Karen Purvis]

With apologies for any cross-posting
 

RHODOPSIN - ADVANCES & PERSPECTIVES

Tenth Annual Vision Research Conference

 

April 28-29, 2006 * Fort Lauderdale, Florida

 

Full program now available at: 

www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com

 

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Call for Posters deadline: February 3, 2006

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Organizers on behalf of the Board of Vision Research: 

- Klaus Peter Hofmann, Humboldt University, Germany 
- Kris Palczewski, Case Western Reserve University, USA 
- Wolfgang Baehr, University of Utah, USA 

 

Organized by Vision Research / Elsevier and co-sponsored by ARVO, this two day conference immediately prior to the 2006 Annual Meeting of ARVO will provide delegates with a comprehensive look at recent advances in rhodopsin research. Session topics and chairs include: 

 

Structure and stability of the rhodopsin ground state 

- Chair: Paul Hargrave, University of Florida, USA 

 

Retinal isomerization and coupling to the apoprotein 

- Chair: Klaus Peter Hofmann, Humboldt University, Germany 

 

Coupling of R* to transducin, GRK1, and arrestin

- Chair: Kevin Ridge, University of Texas, USA

 

Rhodopsin and GPCRs: similarities and differences

- Chair: Heidi Hamm, Vanderbilt University, USA 

 

Release of the retinal chromophore and rhodopsin regeneration

- Chair: Dan Oprian, Brandeis University, USA 

 

Cone pigments and evolution of color vision 

- Chair: Gerald Jacobs, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA 

 

Trafficking of rhodopsin 

- Chair: Dusanka Deretic, University of New Mexico, USA 

 

Rhodopsin mutations and retina disease 

- Chair: Wolfgang Baehr, University of Utah, USA

 

 

Call for Posters

Abstracts for poster presentations at the conference are invited. Please submit abstracts online at http://www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com by February 3, 2006.

 

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The Tenth Annual Vision Research Conference is sponsored and hosted by Elsevier / Vision Research (http://www.elsevier.com). The meeting is co-sponsored by ARVO (http://www.arvo.org).

 

For further details visit: http://www.visionresearch-conference.elsevier.com or contact vr-conference at elsevier.com.

 

 

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