ICMS2022 New York City - program - Sophion

Program

day one – 5 November

08.00 AM          Registration – tea/coffee

 

09.00 AM          Welcome remarks – Thomas Binzer – Sophion Bioscience

 

Session 1 – Chair: Stefan Feske – NYU Grossman School of Medicine

 

09.15 AM         Merritt Maduke – Stanford University

Developing pharmacological tools to selectively target CLC chloride-channels

 

09.40 AM         Dianne Lipscombe – Brown University

Forms and Functions of Voltage-Gated Calcium Ion Channels Critical for Adaptive and Maladaptive Pain

 

10.05 AM         Rajesh Khanna – NYU Pain Research Center

Answers to NaV1.7 Analgesic Failures: Post Translational Targeting for Pain Reduction

 

10.30 AM         Tea/coffee – exhibits and posters

 

Session 2 – Chair: Stefan Feske – NYU Grossman School of Medicine

 

11.15 AM         Heike Wulff – University of California, Davis

Kv1.3 and KCa3.1 as Targets for Neuroinflammation

 

11.40 AM         Geoffrey Abbott – University of California, Irvine

Potassium channel-targeted small molecule discovery from plants

 

12.05 PM         Anjali Radadhyaksha – Weill Cornell Medicine

L-type calcium channel mechanisms and neuropsychiatric disorders

 

12.30 PM         Janina Sörmann – Evotec SE

Defective X-gating of TASK-1 in a novel channelopathy associated with sleep apnea

 

12.55 PM         Lunch

 

Session 3 – Chair: William Coetzee – NYU Grossman School of Medicine

 

02.00 PM         David Clapham – Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The primary cilia is a short circuit for receptor signaling to the nucleus

 

02.25 PM         Bhama Ramkhelawon – NYU Langone Health

Immunoprobing Piezo-1 signals in the vasculature

 

02.50 PM         Daniel Sauter – Sophion Bioscience, Inc.

A journey through patch clamp, pain and passion

 

03.15 PM         Tea/coffee – exhibits and posters

 

Session 4 – Chair: Daniel Sauter – Sophion Bioscience

 

04.00 PM         Alexandra Pinggera – Metrion Biosciences

Advantages of the novel dynamic action potential patch clamp technique to characterise Nav1.2 disease mutations

 

04.25 PM          David Stokes – NYU Langone Health

How to put a channel to work: the potassium transport system KdpFABC

 

04.50 PM          Crina Nimigean – Weill Cornell Medicine

Calcium gating and ball-and-chain inactivation in potassium channels

 

05.15 PM          Wrap-up – Duncan Jarman – Sophion Bioscience

 

05.30 PM          Drinks reception in the lobby

 

 

Day 2 – 6 November

08.00 AM          Tea/coffee

 

09.00 AM          Welcome remarks – Duncan Jarman – Sophion Bioscience

 

Session 5 – Chair: Rajesh Khanna – NYU Pain Research Center

 

09.05 AM          Mark Estacion – Yale University

Pharmacogenomics of hNaV1.7 variants to Lacosamide from responsive and non-responsive SFN patients

 

09.30 AM          Theanne Griffith – University of California, Davis

Illuminating new roles for sodium channels in sensory neurons

 

09.55 AM          Stefan Feske – NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Novel Ion Channels and Transporters in Immunity

 

10.20 AM          Tea/coffee – Exhibit and Posters Session

 

Session 6 – Chair: Rajesh Khanna – NYU Grossman School of Medicine

 

11.20 AM          Gerald Zamponi – University of Calgary

Post-transitional modification of T-type calcium channels as a molecular target for pain

 

11.45 AM          Colin Nichols – Washington University, School of Medicine

Personalized therapies for KATP channel diseases

 

12.10 AM          Vera Moissenkova-Bell – University of Pennsylvania

Structural Insights into TRPV Channel Gating

 

12.35 AM          Steven Marx – Columbia University 

Rad regulation of CaV1.2 channels controls cardiac fight-or-flight response

 

01.00 PM          Lunch – Exhibits and Poster Session

 

Session 7 – Chair: Steven Marx – Columbia University

 

02.00 PM          William Coetzee – NYU Grossman School of Medicine

A novel Kir6.2 specific KATP channel opener

 

02.25 PM          Zhaozhu Qiu – Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore

From SWELL From SWELL to PAC: discovery of novel chloride channels

 

02.50 PM          Anissa Bara – Sophion Bioscience

Electrophysiological characterization of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes using automated patch clamp

 

03.15 PM         Tea/coffee – Exhibit and Posters Session

 

Session 8 – Chair: William Coetzee – NYU Grossman School of Medicine

 

03.45 PM         Amanda Klein – University of Minnesota

KATP channel involvement in pain, opioid efficacy, and morphine tolerance depends on subtype and cellular location

 

04.10 PM         Murali Prakriya – Northwestern University

Regulation of neuropathic pain by Orai1 calcium channels

 

04.35 PM         Henry Colecraft – Columbia University

Removing voltage-gated calcium channels by targeted ubiquitination to treat pain

 

05.00 PM         Wrap up – Thomas Binzer – Sophion Bioscience

05.30 PM         Drinks and Hors d’Oeuvres