The Gordon Research Conferences–“Ion Channel” was held in Mount Holyoke College in Boston (USA) from July 10th to 16th 2016.Kai Li from Shiqing Cai’s lab in the Institute of Neuroscience won the best prize in poster presentation at this conference. His work is entitled “Tetrameric assembly of K+ channels requires ER-located chaperone proteins”.

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