The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Membrane Transport Proteins will be held for the 7th time and continue to bring together researchers from many different areas in the field of membrane transport. It is a major goal of the conference to bring together people who do not normally interact and to ensure participation of as many students, post docs and young investigators as possible. To reinforce the international aspect of the conference has alternated between European and US venues. This time the conference returns to University of New England, which is situated on the beautiful coast of southern Maine. The conference sessions will cover a spectrum of different membrane transport proteins including ion pumps, ABC transporters, ion coupled transporters, neurotransmitter transporters, vesicular transporters and ion channels. The talks will describe the most recent developments in our understanding of membrane transport protein structure and mechanisms as well as the newest insights into the role of genetic variation in transporters for disease development, the pharmacology and physiology of transport proteins, the use of computational biology and high through put approaches in transporter research, the cellular mechanisms regulating transporter activity and the physiological and pathophysiological function of transporters in the brain.