The seminar discusses structural mechanisms regulating retinal guanylate cyclase by GCAP1 and RD3. It focuses on how calcium-sensor proteins control phototransduction and how mutations can disturb retinal signaling
About the speaker
James B. Ames received his PhD in chemistry from UC Berkeley and completed postdoctoral work at Stanford University. His research uses NMR and other biophysical methods to study retinal calcium sensor proteins