Biophysical meeting in San Diego
Attending conferences is an important part of the scientific research. It represent the the possibility to share information even before they reached definitive publishable results, to be updated about the most recent discoveries directly by the authors, to do networking and have informal discussions with people who do the same research as you, but differently, and last but not least... it push you to travel around the world! (Incidentally, from Osaka the shortest route is via the Hawaii, where I will stop by few days in the way back). As part of my project, I am going to San Diego (CA) to attend the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, a five-day meeting with about 5,000 attendees, 500 speakers and 600 daily poster presentations, included mine. I will present an analysis about the calcium gradients in resting muscle cells generated by the leakage of the calcium-release channel. The channel (RyR) functionally opens during action potentials to release big amounts of calcium ions which