Monday Lecture Series
Monday, April 11, 2016
4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC)
Rod MacKinnon, M.D., Ph.D.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Professor and Head,
Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics,
The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Some Experiments That Excite Me Right Now
Recommended Readings
Brohawn, S. G., Campbell, E. B., & MacKinnon, R. (2014). Physical mechanism for gating and mechanosensitivity of the human TRAAK K+ channel. Nature, 516(7529), 126-130. doi:10.1038/nature14013
Doyle, D. A., Cabral, J. M., Pfuetzner, R. A., Kuo, A., Gulbis, J. M., Cohen, S. L., … & MacKinnon, R. (1998). The structure of the potassium channel: molecular basis of K+ conduction and selectivity. Science, 280(5360), 69-77. doi:10.1126/science.280.5360.69
Hite, R. K., Yuan, P., Li, Z., Hsuing, Y., Walz, T., & MacKinnon, R. (2015). Cryo-electron microscopy structure of the Slo2. 2 Na+-activated K+ channel. Nature, 527(7577), 198-203. doi:10.1038/nature14958
MacKinnon, R. (2004). Potassium channels and the atomic basis of selective ion conduction (Nobel Lecture). Angewandte Chemie, 43(33), 4265-4277.
