Graduate Course on Ion Channels & Transporters
The ICTI program offers a graduate course focused on ion channels and transporters (ICTs), which is part of the Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at NYUGSoM. The course is open to students from other institutions in the New York City metropolitan area. The course curriculum provides a comprehensive overview of the physiological function, structure, genetics, and pharmacology of ICTs, emphasizing their roles in disease pathology and potential as drug targets. Directed by Drs. Stefan Feske, William Coetzee, and David Stokes, the course features lectures and lab practicals aimed at providing hands-on experience in studying ion channel function through patch-clamp electrophysiology and analyzing channel and transporter structures. The course starts off with a module on Classical Biophysics: Ion Selectivity, Permeation, and Gating and lectures discussing the fundamentals of ion channel physiology in excitable and non-excitable tissues. Key topics of the course include voltage-gated Na+, Ca2+ channels, ligand-gated ion channels, ATP-dependent pumps, and TRP channels, along with. It also covers Cl– channels, Na+ and K+ transporters, as well as ion channels in immune cells to support the goals of the ICTI program. Lectures are given by leading experts in their field including Drs. Richard Tsien, Da-Neng Wang, William Coetzee, Stefan Feske and David Stokes (NYUGSoM) as well as Dr. Murali Prakriya (Northwestern University), and Dr. Bimal Desai (University of Virginia). Please contact us for more details.
