Program
Day one – wednesday
08:00 Registration tea/coffee
09:00 Welcome remarks
Session 1 – Chair:
Professor Derek Bowie – McGill University
09:15 Professor Bernd Fakler – University of Freiburg
The Interactome of AMPA-receptors – Protein-coding of Excitatory Neurotransmission and its Plasticity
09:40 Dr M Teresa Pérez García – University of Valladolid
Kv1.3 channels as new targets in cardiovascular disease
10:05 Professor Susumu Ohya – Nagoya City University
Role of Ca2+-activated K+ and Cl- channels in cancer drug resistance
10:30 Tea/coffee, Exhibits and Posters
11:15 Gary Stephens – Reading University
TBA
11:40 Professor Bernard Attali – Tel Aviv University
Allosteric inhibitors targeting the calmodulin-PIP2 interface of SK4 K+ channels for atrial fibrillation treatment
12:05 Dr Emma Veale – University of Kent
Characterisation of monogenic clinical variants of potassium channels to understand their contribution in disease phenotypes
12:30 Professor Maurizio Taglialatela – University of Naples Federico II
Neuronal KCNQ channelopathies: human phenotypes, functional aspects and pharmacological approaches
12:40 Lunch – networking, exhibits and posters
Session 2 – Chair:
TBA
14:00 Professor Jeremy Lambert – University of Dundee
Neurosteroids – Endogenous modulators of the GABAA receptor
14:25 Dr Flore Sneyers – Catholic University Leuven
An unanticipated Ca2+-independent effect of BAPTA uncovers a new way to target Mcl-1-dependent cancer cells
14:50 Anna Carbone – Evotec AOI
TBA
15:15 Tea/coffee, Exhibits and Posters
16:00 Professor Iain Greenwood – St George’s, University of London
ERG channels: not just an affair of the heart
16:25 Dr Haritha Reddy – Tel Aviv University
Molecular mechanisms underlying the epileptic symptoms of GNB1
16:50 TBA – Sophion Bioscience
News & Views
17:15 Wrap up
17:30 Drinks reception at the Scholar’s Garden
19:00 Dinner at the Great Hall, Clare College
Day two- Thursday
08:00 Tea/coffee
09:00 Welcome remarks
Session 3 – Chair:
Professor Iain Greenwood – St George’s, University of London
09:05 Professor Guiscard Seebohm – University of Münster
Kv7 channels – You can teach even old dogs new tricks
09:30 Dr Arden Darko-Boateng – Columbia University
Cav3.1 and Cav3.2 Low voltage-activated Calcium Channels by NEDD4 Family E3 Ubiquitin Ligases
09:55 TBA – Sophion Bioscience A/S
TBA
10:20 Tea/coffee, Exhibits and Posters
11:20 Professor Thomas Voets – Catholic University Leuven
TRPM3 – from the periphery to the brain
11:45 Serife Yerlikaya – University of York
Effects of chemotherapy drugs on voltage-gated sodium channels in breast cancer cells
12:10 Dr Michael Pusch – Genova Institute of Biophysics
Molecular determinants of oxidation dependence of volume-regulated anion channels
12:35 Lunch – networking, exhibits and posters
Session 4 – Chair:
Damian Bell – Sophion Bioscience
14:00 Professor Derek Bowie – McGill University
The glutamatergic synapse as a hub for neurodevelopmental disorders
14:25 Dr Roope Mannikko – University College London
Nav1.4 channelopathies- novel phenotypes and mechanisms
14:50 Professor Barbara Erhlich – Yale University
TBA
15:15 TBA
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15:40 Wrap-up