Category: Webinar
Membranes & Ion Transport Webinar
- Exploring the Wonderful World of Cell Membranes: Proteins, Lipids and Ions, Oh My!
- Potassium Channels & Scorpion Toxins
Description
Exploring the Wonderful World of Cell Membranes: Proteins, Lipids and Ions, Oh My!
Chris Chou, Longmont High School In this hands-on interactive workshop, participants will learn how to utilize physical phospholipid and transport protein models to explore the structure of the cell membrane, the role of transport proteins in moving ions and small molecules across membranes, and how defects in transport proteins can cause diseases such as cystic fibrosis.Potassium Channels & Scorpion Toxins
Tim Herman, PhD, Director, Center for BioMolecular Modeling Discover how the structure of different membrane-embedded protein channels allow for selective transport of specific ions and molecules. Then learn how scorpion-toxin acts as a neurotoxin to inhibit the potassium channel.Session Resources
- Presentation Slides PDF
- Presentation Slides PowerPoint
- How Cystic Fibrosis Affects the Lungs
- How Gene Editing Could Be Used for Cystic Fibrosis
- Tim Herman on the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator
