Novartis Foundation Symposium 224 – Rhodopsins and Phototransduction

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Professor George Wald Memorial Talk RUTH HUBBARD and ELIJAH WALD The ecology of visual pigments J K BOWMAKER Evolution of visual pigments and related molecules FUMIO TOKUNAGA Structure of rhodopsin obtained by electron cryo-microscopy GEBHARD F X SCHERTLER Photons, femtoseconds and dipolar interactions: a molecular picture of the primary events in vision RICHARD A MATHIES Photoactivation of rhodopsin: interplay between protein and chromophore WILLEM J DEGRIP Colour tuning mechanism of visual pigments STEVEN W LIN Amino acid residues controlling properties and functions of rod and cone visual pigments YOSHINORI SHICHIDA Signalling states of photoactivated rhodopsin KLAUS PETER HOFMANN Molecular mechanism of visual transduction KRZYSZTOF PALCZEWSKI Calcium-dependent regulation of rhodopsin phosphorylation SATORU KAWAMURA Emerging role of mass spectrometry in molecular biosciences: studies of protein phosphorylation in fly eyes as an example HIROYUKI MATSUMOTO Cyclic GMP-gated channel and peripherin/rds-rom-1 complex of rod cells ROBERT S MOLDAY Non-visual photoreception by a variety of vertebrate opsins DAISUKE KOJIMA