programme
day one – Wednesday
08:00 Registration tea/coffee
09:00 Welcome remarks
Session 1 – Chair:
Professor David Beech – University of Leeds
09:15 Professor Akiyuki Taruno MD – Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Channel synapse: a chemical synapse where transmitter release is mediated by ion channel pores but not synaptic vesicles
09:40 Dr Anthony Lewis – Portsmouth University
Gating and regulation of fungal potassium channels
10:05 Dr Nina Ottosson – Linköping University
Development of new Kv7.2/7.3 channel openers
10:30 Tea/coffee, Exhibits and Posters
11:15 Professor Ewan St. John Smith – University of Cambridge
Transduction and transmission of nociception
11:40 Professor Emilio Carbone – University of Torino
L-type channelopathies causing autism: new identified molecular hallmarks using autistic mouse models
12:05 Professor Birgit Liss – University of Ulm
It’s complicated – voltage-gated Ca2+ channel function in dopaminergic neurons in health and Parkinson’s disease
12:30 Dr Thomas Binzer – Sophion Bioscience
Remarks from Sophion before lunch
12:40 Lunch – networking, exhibits and posters
Session 2 – Chair:
Professor Irina Vetter – University of Queensland
14:00 Iain Greenwood – St. George’s, University of London
The regulation of Kv7 channels by β γ G proteins
14:25 Liz Roberts – AstraZeneca
Ion channels as drug targets for respiratory diseases
14:50 Professor Samuel Fountain – University of East Anglia
P2X receptors: targets for new medicines
15:15 Tea/coffee, Exhibits and Posters
16:00 Dr Shehrazade Dahimène – University College London
Biallelic loss-of-function variants in CACNA2D1, encoding the calcium channel auxiliary subunit alpha2delta-1, cause early-onset developmental epileptic encephalopathy
16:25 Professor Katsuhiko Muraki – Aichi-Gakuin University
Comparison of TRPA1 and PIEZO1 channel function among species
16:50 Dr Mads P G Korsgaard – Sophion Bioscience
Sophion, pioneers in automated patch clamp – and also not so automated
17:15 Wrap up
17:30 Drinks reception
19:00 Dinner
Day 2 – Thursday
08:00 Tea/coffee
09:00 Welcome remarks
Session 3 – Chair:
Dr Anthony Lewis – University of Portsmouth
09:05 Professor Makoto Tominaga – National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Structure and Function of Thermosensitive TRP Channels
09:30 Professor Ian Mellor – University of Nottingham
NaV channel modulation by toxins from centipede venom
09:55 Professor Jeremy Lambert – University of Dundee
Neurosteroids – Endogenous modulators of the GABAA receptor
10:20 Tea/coffee, Exhibits and Posters
11:20 Professor Irina Vetter – Queensland University
A new family of sodium channel-targeting peptides from the giant Australian stinging tree
11:45 Dr Alexandra Pinggera – Metrion Biosciences
Insights from novel manual patch clamp techniques for target validation
12:10 Dr David Andersson – King’s College London
TRPA1 inactivation produces analgesia mediated by opioid receptors
12:35 Lunch – networking, exhibits and posters
Session 4 – Chair:
Professor Samuel Fountain – University of East Anglia
14:00 Professor Thomas Voets – KU Leuven
TRPM3 – from the periphery to the brain
14:25 Professor David Beech – Leeds University
PIEZO1 channels in health and disease
14:50 Dr Andrew Penn – University of Sussex
Synaptic dysfunction by mutations in GRIN2B and GRIN2A: Subunit identity dominating over mutation classification
15:15 Sofia Hammami Bomholtz – Acesion Pharma
Development of SK channel inhibitor for the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
15:40 Wrap-up