• Introduction to Calcium Signaling
• 72 min
  1. Introduction to cellular calcium signaling

  • Dr. Martin Bootman
• 20 min
  2. Monitoring Ca2+ concentration in living cells

  • Dr. Marisa Brini
• 30 min
  3. Cell boundary theorem

  • Prof. Eduardo Ríos
• Calcium Influx
• 19 min
  4. Arachidonic acid and store-independent Ca2+ entry

  • Dr. Luca Munaron
• 34 min
  5. Voltage-dependent calcium channels

  • Prof. Annette Dolphin
• 34 min
  6. Protein networks of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels – proteomic & functional analysis of local Ca2+ signalling

  • Prof. Bernd Fakler
• 37 min
  7. Intracellular Ca2+ signaling: calcium influx

  • Prof. Anant Parekh
• 60 min
  8. Molecular identification of the CRAC channel

  • Prof. Michael Cahalan
• 35 min
  9. TRP channels with diverse permeability profiles: regulation of blood pressure and fertility

  • Prof. Marc Freichel
• Calcium Release
• 53 min
  10. The InsP3 receptor calcium release channel

  • Prof. J. Kevin Foskett
• 31 min
  11. Molecular biology of ryanodine receptors: an overview

  • Dr. Christopher George
  • Prof. F. Anthony Lai
• 57 min
  12. cADPR and NAADP: messengers for calcium signalling

  • Prof. Antony Galione
• 43 min
  13. Ryanodine receptors and cardiac function

  • Prof. David Eisner
• Calcium Efflux and Sequestration
• 45 min
  14. Sodium-calcium exchange

  • Prof. John Reeves
• Organelle Calcium
• 42 min
  15. Regulation and role of mitochondrial Ca2+ homeostasis

  • Prof. Rosario Rizzuto
• 54 min
  16. Peroxisomes and Golgi apparatus as players in Ca2+ homeostasis

  • Dr. Paola Pizzo
  • Dr. Alex Costa
• 34 min
  17. Ca2+ dynamics between mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum

  • Dr. Wolfgang Graier
• 26 min
  18. Nuclear calcium signaling

  • Dr. Oleg Gerasimenko
  • Dr. Julia Gerasimenko
• Spatiotemporal Calcium Signals
• 54 min
  19. Regulation of intracellular calcium signaling, localized signals and oscillations

  • Prof. Barbara Ehrlich
• 43 min
  20. Modeling Ca2+ signals: understanding Ca2+ regulatory networks in cells: introduction and basic concepts

  • Dr. David Friel
• 41 min
  21. Modeling Ca2+ signals: understanding Ca2+ regulatory networks in cells - Ca2+ stores: endoplasmic reticulum, calcium oscillations

  • Dr. David Friel
• 49 min
  22. Modeling Ca2+ signals: understanding Ca2+ regulatory networks in cells - Ca2+ stores: mitochondria, models of spatially non-uniform Ca2+ signals, applications to analysis of experimental results

  • Dr. David Friel
• Calcium Effectors
• 34 min
  23. Neuronal calcium sensor proteins: calcium sensors and regulators of diverse cellular functions

  • Prof. Bob Burgoyne
• 41 min
  24. Calcium-regulated adenylyl cyclases and cyclic AMP compartmentalization

  • Prof. Dermot Cooper
• 32 min
  25. Calcium and transcription-coupling

  • Dr. Karen Lounsbury
• 50 min
  26. Cellular calcium (Ca2+) buffers

  • Prof. Dr. Beat Schwaller
• 24 min
  27. Extracellular calcium signaling

  • Dr. Aldebaran M. Hofer
• 50 min
  28. Ca2+, fertilization and egg activation

  • Prof. Karl Swann
• 24 min
  29. Calcium regulation of transcription in plants

  • Prof. Hillel Fromm
• 34 min
  30. Mechanisms regulating STIM expression and function in Ca2+ signaling

  • Dr. Jonathan Soboloff
• 46 min
  31. Dynamic signal encoding in the S. cerevisiae calcium response

  • Dr. Chiraj Dalal
• Calcium and Disease
• 43 min
  32. Polycystins, calcium signaling and pathogenesis of polycystic kidney disease

  • Prof. Laura del Senno
• 28 min
  33. Ca2+ alterations in familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD)

  • Dr. Paola Pizzo
• 38 min
  34. Pancreatitis and calcium signaling

  • Prof. Ole Petersen
• 47 min
  35. Mechanism-based therapies for heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias

  • Prof. Andrew Marks
• 46 min
  36. Genetic defects and calcium

  • Prof. Tullio Pozzan
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 31 min
  37. Calcium, calmodulin and calcineurin

  • Prof. Stephen Bolsover
• 34 min
  38. Calcium flickers steer cell migration

  • Prof. Heping Cheng
• 28 min
  39. Automated Ca2+ imaging of chemosensory neurones in C.elegans

  • Dr. Nikos Chronis
• 46 min
  40. Ca2+ and the regulation of small GTPases

  • Prof. Peter Cullen
• 35 min
  41. Genetically encoded Ca2+ indicators: molecular scale measurements in mammals in vivo

  • Dr. Michael I. Kotlikoff
• 35 min
  42. Capacitative (store-operated) calcium entry

  • Dr. Jim Putney
• 47 min
  43. The molecular biology of the inositol trisphosphate receptor

  • Dr. Randen Patterson
• 50 min
  44. Coordinated Ca2+ release from intracellular Ca2+ stores

  • Prof. Ole Petersen
• 45 min
  45. The plasma membrane calcium pump: biochemistry, physiology and molecular pathology

  • Prof. Ernesto Carafoli
• 60 min
  46. The calcium saga: a matter of life and death

  • Prof. Pierluigi Nicotera
• 22 min
  47. Ca2+ efflux and Ca2+ signals

  • Dr. Anne Green
• 31 min
  48. Organellar calcium pumps of the golgi and ER: from yeast to human

  • Prof. Rajini Rao
• 58 min
  49. Spatial and temporal aspects of cellular calcium signals: 'elementary' signals and waves

  • Prof. Ian Parker
• 26 min
  50. Modeling Ca2+ signals

  • Dr. David Friel

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1. Introduction
2. Importance of measuring Ca2+ concentrations
3. Ca signaling and function in different cells
4. Controlling Ca homeostasis
5. Luminescent and fluorescent Ca probes
6. Synthetic probes
7. Fura-2/AM as a fluorescent Ca indicator dye
8. The detection system
9. Ca chelators derivatives: non-ratiometric probes
10. Ca chelators derivatives: ratiometric probes
11. Ratio (intensity) versus concentration
12. Targeted Ca probes
13. Measuring mitochondrial [Ca] with rhod-2
14. Measuring organelle calcium
15. Aequorin: a gene encoded Ca probe
16. Recombinant probes
17. Advantages of aequorin
18. Aequorin activity as an indicator
19. Reconstituting aequorin (protein+prosthetic group)
20. Reconstituting aequorin where [Ca] is high
21. Aequorin probes
22. Using aequorin in population studies
23. Measurement of [Ca] in the cytosole
24. Measurement of [Ca] in the ER lumen
25. Measurement of [Ca] in the mitochondria
26. Disadvantages of aequorin (1)
27. Disadvantages of aequorin (2)
28. GFP-based probes
29. Recombinant GFP-based fluorescent probes
30. FRET:fluorescence resonance energy transfer
31. Yellow cameleon
32. Enhanced mitochondrial targeting of protein probes
33. Camgaroo probe
34. Ratiometric pericam probe
35. New Ca sensors

Topics Covered

• Introduction to Calcium homeostasis
• Synthetic fluorescent Calcium probes
• Ratiometric and non-ratiometric probes
• Calibration
• Recombinant probes: the targeted probes
• Aequorin
• Targeting strategies
• Wide dynamic range
• Applications: some examples
• GFP-based probes
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Imaging
• FRET based probes

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Series:

• Calcium Signaling I

Categories:

• Biochemistry
• Cell Biology

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007

Financial Disclosures

• Dr. Marisa Brini has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.