Information

The ITTS meeting is free of charge and open to ITTS members and NIH employees.
Become ITTS member today:
Please follow this link for becoming ITTS member (http://www.ittsociety.org/join-itts)

Registration and Abstract submission
Abstract submission deadline: Closed

ALL ABSTRACTS HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED! CONGRATULATIONS!

Specifications for Poster Presentations

  • Poster displays will be limited to one side of a 6 foot (width, 1.828 meters) by 4 foot (height, 1.219 meters) tack board. The recommended poster size is 5 feet by 3 feet (60 inches by 36 inches).
  • The poster board number assigned to the poster must be placed in the upper left-hand corner of the display. A poster board number cut-out will be provided and must be visible at all times.
  • Be sure to include the abstract title, author and coauthor names, and the institution(s) where research is underway.
  • Place your e-mail address, phone, and fax numbers in the upper right-hand corner of the poster board.
  • It is suggested that you place multiple copies of a reproduction of the abstract in the upper left-hand side of the poster, written with the headings “Introduction/Background,” Methods,” “Results,” and “Conclusions”. Include your contact information on these copies for attendees who desire further information.
  • It is recommended that you hand-carry your poster to the conference, using tubular packaging or a portfolio case. Costs associated with creating and shipping the poster display will be the responsibility of the authors. Pushpins, or thumbtacks will be provided to mount your poster.
  • A designated poster presenter (author or coauthor) must be present at the assigned space during the designated time to discuss the work presented.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST THERE WILL BE A POSTER COMPETITION WITH MONETARY PRIZES FOR FIRST THROUGH THIRD.


During registration, you will be asked to create an account and define a password. Using this credentials, you can come back to a halted registration of update our abstract until the deadline.

Please download the abstract template (to be uploaded during Registration and Abstract submission) for preparing you abstract.

Apply to Travel Awards for Early Career Researcher:

A limited number of travel awards will be provided to Early Career Researchers (up to 5 years after PhD). For application, please send your abstract to ittsociety@ittsociety.org.

Travel Award Abstract Deadline has been Extended to September 16. After scientific review you may be asked to provide a CV.

Register for receptions
Welcome reception: Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Closing reception: Tuesday, October 22, 2024

About Event

Welcome to the 3rd ITTS Symposium 2024

The International Transmembrane Transporter Society (ITTS) is a nonprofit membership organization focused on fostering science, scientific advances and collaborations in the field of membrane transporters in all of its relevant aspects, from structural biology, biochemistry, pharmacology to physiology and beyond.

The 3rd ITTS Symposium aims to showcase cutting-edge research of established experts in the field together with early career, talented researchers and to serve as a unique platform for sharing knowledge, fostering connections, and driving the field of transport biology forward.

This meeting, which also celebrates the 10 years of existence of the ITTS, is in collaboration between the ITTS and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) with Susan Amara (NIMH) and Michael Gottesman (NCI) as local organizers. The meeting venue will be at the NIH campus in Bethesda.

The ITTS is proud and thrilled to have you along for this exciting journey of discovery and exploration into the domain of membrane transporters. Together, we hope to pave the way towards greater understanding and transformative breakthroughs related to the function of transmembrane transporters and their impact on cells, organs, and organisms.

For more information about the ITTS Society, please see the ITTS webpage: http://www.ittsociety.org

Meeting Organizers:

Symposium Chair:
John D Schuetz
Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Local Organizers:
Michael M Gottesman
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Susan G Amara
National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Scientific Program

Agenda

time iconOctober 29, 2024 06:00 pm

Opening Reception

Conference reception at Rock Bottom Brewery, registration required at: http://www.ittsociety.org/itts-2024-reception-signup

Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery

7900 Norfolk Avenue

Bethesda, Maryland 

time iconOctober 30, 2024 07:30 am

Shuttle pick-up at Hyatt Regency Bethesda

time iconOctober 30, 2024 08:55 am

Welcome

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John D. Schuetz
Ph.D., St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

time iconOctober 30, 2024 09:00 am

Symposium S1. EXPLORING ELECTROGENICITY: ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO INVESTIGATE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF MEMBRANE TRANSPORTERS

time iconOctober 30, 2024 09:00 am

Chair Opening: Dirk Slotboom

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Dirk Slotboom
PhD, Professor in structural membrane biology and scientific director of the Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology institute (GBB)

time iconOctober 30, 2024 09:10 am

Unraveling the relevance of heterologous expression in Xenopus laevis oocytes in the modern era of membrane transporter studies: investigating GABA and betaine interaction in SLC6A1

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Elena Bossi
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physiology, Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences University Insubria, Como, Italy

time iconOctober 30, 2024 09:40 am

Solid Supported Membrane-based Electrophysiology Reveals Multiple Electrogenic Events Associated to GABA, Na+ and Cl- binding to Human GAT1

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Rocco Zerlotti
Application Scientist, Nanion Technologies, Munich, Bavaria

time iconOctober 30, 2024 10:10 am

Coffee Break

time iconOctober 30, 2024 10:30 am

Determining the Transport Behavior of a Loosely Coupled Promiscuous Transporter

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Katherine A. Henzler-Wildman
Ph.D., Jean V. Thomas Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison USA

time iconOctober 30, 2024 11:00 am

Mechanism of CIC-7 Inhibition by Lysosomal Phosphoinosides

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Joseph Mindell
Senior Investigator, NIH

time iconOctober 30, 2024 11:30 am

Short Talks - 3 speakers (10-12 minutes each)

time iconOctober 30, 2024 12:00 pm

Lunch on your own + Poster session I

time iconOctober 30, 2024 02:00 pm

Symposium S2. RETHINKING DOPAMINE REUPTAKE AND RELEASE: DISEASE MECHANISMS, PSYCHOSTIMULANT ACTION AND SEX DEPENDENT EFFECTS

time iconOctober 30, 2024 02:00 pm

Chair Opening: Ulrik Gether Co-Chair: Pingyue Pan

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Ulrik Gether / Co-Chair: Pingyue Pan

time iconOctober 30, 2024 02:10 pm

The Dynamics of Axonal Dopamine Transporter Regulated by a Parkinson's Disease Gene, SYNJ1

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Pingyue Pan
Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey USA

time iconOctober 30, 2024 02:40 pm

Mouse Models of Atypical DAT Deficiency Syndrome: Exploiting Genetically Encoded Biosensors to Dissect Disease-associated Dopamine Dysfunction

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Ulrik Gether
MD, DMSc, University of Copenhagen

time iconOctober 30, 2024 03:10 pm

Coffee break

time iconOctober 30, 2024 03:30 pm

Stimulant Effects on the Dopamine System are Sexually Dimorphic and Sensitive to Ovarian Hormone Cycles

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Erin Calipari
Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee USA

time iconOctober 30, 2024 04:00 pm

Regulation of Neuronal Activity and Behaviors by Non-invasive X-ray Technology

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Aurelio Galli
Ph.D., D. Sc., Department of Surgery, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama USA

time iconOctober 30, 2024 04:30 pm

Interactive questions from session

time iconOctober 30, 2024 05:00 pm

Shuttle back to Hyatt Regency Bethesda Dinner on your own

time iconOctober 31, 2024 07:30 am

Shuttle pick-up at Hyatt Regency Bethesda

time iconOctober 31, 2024 09:00 am

Symposium S3 PHARMACOGENICS OF DRUG TRANSPORTERS

time iconOctober 31, 2024 09:00 am

Chair Opening: Richard B. Kim

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Richard B. Kim
MD, Department of Medicine, Western University, Canada

time iconOctober 31, 2024 09:10 am

Overview of Drug Transporter Pharmacogenomics: Where Are We 3 Decades Later?

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Richard B. Kim
MD, Department of Medicine, Western University, Canada

time iconOctober 31, 2024 09:40 am

Clinical Relevance of Genetic Variations in Human MDR1 (ABCB1) and BCRP (ABCG2)

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Ingolf Cascorbi
MD. Department of Pharmacology, University of Kiel, Germany

time iconOctober 31, 2024 10:10 am

Coffee break

time iconOctober 31, 2024 10:30 am

Organic Cation Transporter 1 (SLC22A1) Genetic Variation and Drug Response

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Sook Wah Yee
PhD, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco USA

time iconOctober 31, 2024 11:00 am

Short Talks - 4 speakers (10-12 minutes each)

time iconOctober 31, 2024 11:45 am

ITTS Society Business Meeting

time iconOctober 31, 2024 12:00 pm

Lunch on your own + Poster session II

time iconOctober 31, 2024 02:00 pm

Symposium S4 SODIUM-COUPLED AMINO ACID TRANSPORTERS: MECHANISM AND DRUG TARGETS

time iconOctober 31, 2024 02:00 pm

Chair Opening: Baruch Kanner

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Baruch Kanner

time iconOctober 31, 2024 02:10 pm

Evolution and adaptation of ion-coupling mechanisms in glutamate transporters.

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Olga Boudker
Ph.D., Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY USA

time iconOctober 31, 2024 02:40 pm

Mechanisms of transport of Heteromeric amino acid Transporter for neutral amino acids.

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Manuel Palacin
Ph.D., Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) at the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain

time iconOctober 31, 2024 03:10 pm

Coffee break

time iconOctober 31, 2024 03:30 pm

Novel Allosteric Inhibitors of Glycine Transporters.

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Robert Vandenberg
Ph.D., The University of Sydney New South Wales Australia

time iconOctober 31, 2024 04:00 pm

New pharmacological tools to block uptake or efflux in glutamine and glutamate transporters.

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Christof Grewer
Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Binghamton University, New York USA

time iconOctober 31, 2024 04:30 pm

Cation binding in the human serotonin transport hSERT

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Eva Hellsberg
NIH

time iconOctober 31, 2024 05:00 pm

Shuttle back to Hyatt Regency Bethesda Dinner on your own

time iconNovember 1, 2024 07:30 am

Shuttle pick-up at Hyatt Regency Bethesda

time iconNovember 1, 2024 09:00 am

Symposium S5. MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-LINKED DRUG TRANSPORTERS

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Di Xia

time iconNovember 1, 2024 09:00 am

Chair Opening: Co-Chairs: Di Xia Ph.D., and Suresh V. Ambudkar Ph.D.

time iconNovember 1, 2024 09:10 am

Mechanism of Reversal of Direction of the Drug Transport by Multidrug Transporter ABCB1

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Andaleeb Sajid
PhD, Laboratory of Cell Biology, CCR, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

time iconNovember 1, 2024 09:40 am

Mechanism of MATE Multidrug Transporters.

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Hendrik W. van Veen
PhD, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

time iconNovember 1, 2024 10:10 am

ABC Transporters and Mechanisms of Survival.

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Heather Pinkett
PhD, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois USA

time iconNovember 1, 2024 10:40 am

Coffee break

time iconNovember 1, 2024 11:00 am

Mechanism of Drug Transport by ABCG2.

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John D. Schuetz
PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

time iconNovember 1, 2024 11:30 am

Novel Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Cancer Cells

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Gergely Szakacs
M.D., PhD, Medical University, Vienna, Austria

time iconNovember 1, 2024 12:00 pm

Cryo-EM Structure of Zebrafish Abcb4

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Jingyu Zhan
PhD, Laboratory of Cell Biology, CCR, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland USA

time iconNovember 1, 2024 12:30 pm

The Function of ABC Transporters at the Blood-brain Barrier

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Joanna Thomas
PhD, Laboratory of Cell Biology, CCR, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland USA

time iconNovember 1, 2024 01:00 pm

Lunch on your own

time iconNovember 1, 2024 02:00 pm

SYMPOSIUM S6. EMERGING TRANSPORTER SCIENTISTS – BRAIN, PERIPHERY AND EVERYWHERE IN BETWEEN (Young Scientist Symposia)

time iconNovember 1, 2024 02:00 pm

Chair Opening: Adithya Gopinath Co-Chair: Gisela Camacho-Hernandez

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Adithya Gopinath, PhD Co-Chair: Gisela Camacho-Hernandez, PhD

time iconNovember 1, 2024 02:10 pm

Adapting FSCV to Analyze Neurotransmitter Dynamics in Advanced Human-Derived 3D Cell Culture Models to Bridge the Gap Between Lab and Clinic

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Bettina Bohl
Ph.D., Imperial College of London

time iconNovember 1, 2024 02:40 pm

Development of Novel Tools to Study the Dopamine Transporter

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Gisela Andrea Camacho-Hernandez
Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)

time iconNovember 1, 2024 03:10 pm

Exploring Unconventional Monoamine Transporter Pharmacology and its Therapeutic Potential

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Marco Niello
Ph.D., Genetics of Cognition Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

time iconNovember 1, 2024 03:40 pm

Dopamine transporter-mediated regulation of peripheral immunity: an immunomodulatory story

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Adithya Gopinath
Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida USA

time iconNovember 1, 2024 04:10 pm

Closing Lecture 2 (Interactive questions from session)

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Michael M. Gottesman, MD
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

time iconNovember 1, 2024 05:00 pm

Closing reception

Accommodations

Hyatt Regency Bethesda

NIH ITTS Symposium room block has closed.

Marriott Bethesda Marriott HQ

NIH ITTS Symposium room block has closed.


Other downtown Bethesda Hotels (be sure to ask for the gov’t per diem rates):

AC Hotel Bethesda Downtown

4646 Montgomery Avenue

Bethesda, MD 20814

301656-2260

The Bethesdan Hotel, Tapestry Collection by Hilton

8120 Wisconsin Avenue

Bethesda, MD 20814

301-652-2000

Restaurants in the Area

Please click on the link below to see all the great restaurants that are located in Bethesda, Maryland:

Link - https://www.bethesda.org/dining-guide

Transportation to NIH

NIH 9000 Rockville Pike, Bldg35, Bethesda, MD 20892

The NIH main campus is 1.4 miles (10 minutes) from the Hyatt Regency Bethesda Hotel.
Shuttle Service: A shuttle service is being provided to transport attendees from the hotel to the meeting facility. The shuttle will leave each morning from the Hyatt Regency Bethesda Hotel at 7:30AM. Please bring a form of identification in order to get onto the NIH main campus.
Metro/Subway: The NIH main campus is accessible by Metro from the Hyatt Regency Bethesda Hotel and Marriott Bethesda Downtown Hotel via the Red Line from Bethesda to the Medical Center Metro Station.
Please visit the Metro website to access a map of the Metrorail system.
Alternatively, taxicabs are available in front of the hotel.
Driving Directions: Please visit the NIH website for directions: Driving Directions
Parking on the NIH Main Campus: Visitors Parking is available on the NIH Main Campus. The maximum daily rate parking at the NIH Gateway Center is $12.00.

Getting on to NIH Main Campus

NIH 9000 Rockville Pike, Bldg35, Bethesda, MD 20892

Visitors are required to enter the campus through the NIH Gateway Center and will be asked to submit to a vehicle or personal inspection.

The NIH Gateway Center is located adjacent to the Medical Center Metro Station at the South Drive entrance to the campus from Rockville Pike/Wisconsin Avenue (Route 355). It combines visitor parking, non-commercial vehicle inspection, and visitor identification processing, all in one location. NIH will process all visitors arriving in vehicles or as pedestrians.

Visitors will be required to show one (1) form of identification (a government-issued photo ID-driver's license, passport, green card, etc.) and state the purpose of the visit to gain access to the Conference Center. Allow extra time for security screening.

Frequently Asked Questions


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Yes, please feel free to register and attend even if you are not submitting an abstract to be reviewed.
Please go to this link: https://ittssymposium.vfairs.com/backend/v2/abstract/register to submit an abstract.
If so, please mail us at NIMH@mn-e.com
We are happy to provide you with a travel letter from NIH in order to attend this conference. Please email NIMH@mn-e.com to receive this letter.
We have reserved a block of rooms at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda and Marriott Bethesda Downtown Hotel for this meeting. If you need hotel accommodations for this meeting, please indicate that when you register or contact us nimh@mn-e.com.
Yes, there will be a shuttle running from the Hyatt Regency to the NIH main campus that will drop you off at Bldg 35 where the meeting is being held. The shuttle will leave at 7:30 AM each morning from the lobby of the Hyatt to go to the NIH campus. NIH Security will check your identification in order to permit you onto the NIH campus. Please bring your identification with you to this meeting.
Welcome Reception will be held at the Rock Bottom Brewery in downtown Bethesda, MD at 6 PM.
Yes, the Closing Reception will be held on the NIH campus (locations tbd). Details to come later.
Please contact vFairs at ittssymposium@getvfairs.io
Please contact us at nimh@mn-e.com.
Individuals with disabilities who need sign language interpreting and/or other reasonable accommodations to participate in this event, should contact us at nimh@mn-e.com.

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Questions for the Meeting Organizers?

Symposium Chair:
John D Schuetz
Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
John.Schuetz@STJUDE.ORG


Local Organizers:
Michael M Gottesman
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
gottesmm@mail.nih.gov


Susan G Amara
National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
susan.amara@nih.gov