Tentative program, subject to change:

Day 1, August 28, 2015
8:00 - 9:00	Breakfast and Registration	Room 7220
9:00 - 9:10	Opening
9:10 - 9:30	Rodney Swain, Dean, College of Letters and Science	Welcome Address
	Session I Location: Room 7220 Chair: Valerica Raicu (UW-Milwaukee)
9:30 - 10:00	Sarvenaz Sarbipour and Kalina Hristova (Johns Hopkins University)	Mechanism of FGF receptor dimerization and activation
10:00-10:10	Questions and answers
10:10 - 10:40	Arnold E. Ruoho (UW-Madison), T.A. Mavlyutov, U. Chu, J. Yang, B.G Fox, J. Primm, F. Suchy, H. Meddaugh, R. Wrobel, L. Lapointe, A. Senes, A.K. Mishra, J.A. Oliver, D.R. Singh, and V. Raicu - Oligomerization of the Sigma 1 receptor	Oligomerization of the Sigma 1 receptor – Possible relevance to function
10:40-10:50	Questions and answers
10:50-11:20	Valerica Raicu (UW-Milwaukee)	FRET spectrometry: Overview of the method and its applications
11:20-11:30	Questions and answers
11:30-12:40	Lunch	Dining room (Room 7820)
	Session II Location: Room 7220 Chair: Paul Park (Case Western Reserve University)
12:40-13:10	Graeme Milligan (University of Glasgow)	Imaging the organization and reorganization of G protein-coupled receptors
13:10-13:20	Questions and answers
13:20-13:50	James W Wells (University of Toronto)	Supramolecular organization of M2 muscarinic receptors and G proteins
13:50-14:00	Questions and answers
14:00-14:30	Discussion led by Graeme Milligan (University of Glasgow) and Valerica Raicu (UW-Milwaukee)	Are there discrepancies between the results of FRET, FCS, SPIDA, etc.?
14:30-15:30	Poster Viewing and Coffee
	Session III Location: Room 7220 Chair: Arnold Ruoho (UW-Madison)
15:30-16:00	Amol Shivange (Howard Hughes Med. Inst.; Caltech), P. Borden, J.S. Marvin, L.L. Looger, and H.A. Lester	Fluorescent biosensors for “subcellular pharmacokinetics” of nicotinic compounds
16:00-16:10	Questions and answers
16:10-16:40	Discussion led by Marvin Nieman (Case Western Reserve University) and James W. Wells (University of Toronto)	How and when do GPCRs, G proteins, GPKs, adenylyl cyclase, etc., assemble?
17:00 - 17:15	GATHERING FOR BUS RIDE TO VILLA TERRACE	Location: Lobby of Courtyard Milwaukee Downtown
17:30	Optional docent-led tour of Villa Terrace or self-tour of home/garden	Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum 2220 N. Terrace Ave. Milwaukee
18:00 - 20:30	Symposium Reception	Villa Terrace

 

Day 2, August 29, 2015		Location
8:00 - 8:30	Breakfast Location: Room 7220
	Session IV Location: Room 7220 Chair: Chair: James W. Wells (University of Toronto)
8:30-9:00	Paul Park (Case Western Reserve University)	Nanodomains, oligomers, and aggregates of rhodopsin
9:00-9:10	Questions and answers
9:10-9:30	Michael Stoneman (UW-Milwaukee)	OptiMiS: What’s new, what’s coming
9:30-9:40	Questions and answers
9:40-10:20	Poster Viewing and Coffee
	Session V Location: Room 7220 Chair: Julie Oliver (UW-Milwaukee)
10:20-10:40	Liviu Movileanu (Syracuse University)	Engineered protein nanopores for challenging tasks in biosensing
10:40-11:00	Discussion led by Kalina Hristova (Johns Hopkins University)	How could this research benefit from the use of optical microspectroscopy and/or FRET?
11:00-11:20	Marvin Nieman (Case Western Reserve University)	GPCR crosstalk – Elevating the status of protease activated receptor 4
11:20-11:40	Discussion led by Paul Park (Case Western Reserve University)	How could this research benefit from the use of optical microspectroscopy and/or FRET?
11:40-11:45	CLOSING REMARKS
11:50-12:50	Lunch	Dining (Room 7820)
13:00	Departure for Optional tour of Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex OR Hands-on workshop (requires separate registration) Optional tour of UWM Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex

Day 2, August 29, 2015	Hands-on Workshop (Separate registration required)	Location
13:30-15:30	SESSION I Location: Physics room B42	Measurements
15:30-16:00	Walk to KIRC
16:00-18:00	SESSION II Location: KIRC 2010	Software for data analysis
After 18:00	Return to hotel. Dinner on your own.