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“New Horizons in the Pharmacology of Ion Channels”

 
Thursday, November 6, 2008
8:30 am - 4:15 pm

Hosted by GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals
Program Host:  Robert N. Willette, PhD
709 Swedeland Road
King of Prussia, PA  19406

 



  7:45 - 8:30 am   Registration, Continental Breakfast & Poster Set-up
  8:30 - 8:40 am   GSK Welcome
        John Lepore, PhD
  8:45 - 8:50 am   MAPS Welcome
        Ronald J. Tallarida, PhD - President, MAPS
  8:50-9:00 am   Introduction to Program
         Robert Willette, PhD
     
  9:00 - 10:00 am   David Julius, PhD - Keynote Speaker
         Morris Herzstein Professor of Molecular Biology and Medicine
     Chairman, Department of Physiology
     University of California, San Francisco
     "From Peppers to Peppermints: Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway"
     
10:00 - 10:45 am   Wolfgang Liedtke, MD, PhD
         Assistant Professor and Head of Laboratory - Klingenstein Fellow
     Attending Physician, Duke Pain Clinics
     Duke University Medical Center
     Center for Translational Neuroscience
     "TRPV4-Mediated Signal Transduction - New and Views"
10:45 - 11:00 am   Refreshment Break
11:05 - 11:50 am   Donald L. Gill, PhD
         Professor and Chair
     Department of Biochemistry
     Temple University School of Medicine
     Orai and TRP Channels - Novel Transducers Controlling Calcium Signals"
     
11:50 am - 12:05 pm   Koelle Award Presented by Robert B. Raffa, PhD
12:05 - 12: 15 pm   ASPET Abel Numbers - Presented by Jan M. Kitzen, PhD
12:15 - 2:15 pm    Lunch & Poster Viewing and Judging
Afternoon Session    
2:15 - 3:00 pm   Sven-Eric Jordt, PhD
         Assistant Professor
     Yale University School of Medicine
     Department of Pharmacology
     "TRP Channels in Environmental Chemosensation and Respiratory Control"
     
3:00 - 3:45 pm   John Davis
         Neurology & GI DTG Director
     GSK Harlow UK
     "TRPV1 Antagonist Drug Discovery- The Hard Sweat"
     
3:50 - 4:15 pm   Poster Awards Presentations; ASPET Award for Integretory and Regulatory Pharmacology
     
   Note:  All speaker times include presentation and discussion

Program in PDF Format



Abel Numbers
In conjunction with the 100 year Centennial celebration of the founding of ASPET, all meeting attendees are encouraged to identify their Abel Numbers from the ASPET web site: http://www.aspet.org/public/Centennial/Abel_number.htm  If sufficient information is obtained, there will be a short presentation on the Abel numbers and how these relate to the history of pharmacology in the USA, including contributions made by MAPS attendees.  If possible, an Abel “family tree” will be presented.  Please send your Abel number to Jan Kitzen at the e-mail/FAX or mail address below.  Abel Number deadline: October 10 All Abel numbers submitted after this date will be excluded from the presentation.
 

 

Register for the MAPS Meeting  
 

Preregistration - Pay by Credit Card or Check

 

     MAPS Member

$40
  Non-Maps Member $100
  Student/Postdoctoral
Includes MAPS membership
plus meeting fee
$40
 

Undergraduate Students

$0
 

Undergraduate Faculty

$0
 

Preregistration Deadline:  October 25, 2008

 


On Site Registration- No Credit Cards Accepted

  MAPS Member $50
  Non-Maps Member $110
  Student/Postdoctoral $50
  Undergraduate Student $0
  Undergraduate Faculty $0

Submit an abstract for the MAPS Meeting

   

For further information, contact:
Jan M. Kitzen, Ph.D.
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
500 Arcola Road/E6407
Collegeville, PA  19426

 

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