Program

Tuesday September 23

Time	Title	Presenter
8:00 AM	Registration - tea/coffee
9:00 AM	Welcome remarks/housekeeping	Michel Krall Jürgens/Duncan Jarman - Sophion Bioscience A/S
	Session 1	Chair: Daniel Minor - University of California, San Francisco
9:15 AM	TBA	Steve Brohawn - University of California, Berkeley
10:00 AM	Selective Potentiation of Nav1.1 Channels in Dravet Mice Suppresses Spontaneous Seizures, Prevents SUDEP and Increases Long Term Potentiation	JP Johnson Jr - Xenon Pharmaceuticals
10.25 AM	Ion channels in reproduction: why sperm like it cold	Polina Lishko - Washington University
10:50 AM	Tea/coffee - exhibits and posters
	Session 2	Chair: Daniel Sauter - Sophion Biosciences, Inc.
11:30 AM	Structural basis of KATP channel pharmacology	Show-Ling Shyng - Oregon Health & Science University
11:55 AM	Novel tools to study polycystin biology	Markus Delling - University of California, San Francisco
12:20 PM	Subtype-Selective Modulation and Rescue of Epilepsy-Associated HCN1 Mutant Channels	Bethan Cole - Genentech
12:45 PM	Lunch - exhibits and posters
	Session 3	Chair: Merritt Maduke - Stanford University
2:00 PM	News and Views from Sophion	Michel Krall Jürgens & Daniel Sauter - Sophion Bioscience
2:25 PM	Mechanisms of regulation of TRPM5- an ion channel involved in taste and insulin release	Lejla Zubcevic - University of Kansas
2:50 PM	Differential encoding of mammalian proprioception by voltage gated sodium channels	Theanne Griffiths - University of California, Davis
3:15 PM	TBA	TBA
3:25 PM	Tea/coffee - exhibits and posters
	Session 4	Chair: David Hackos - SiteOne Therapeutics
4:10 PM	Exploring the excitability of neuroendocrine cancer cells	Jodie Collingridge - University of Cambridge (Poster Prize Winner, UK ICMS2025)
4:35 PM	Resisting a toxic environment: Frog saxiphilins in action	Daniel Minor - University of California, San Francisco
5:00 PM	Non-canonical sodium channel isoforms underlie chamber-specific cardiac excitability	Chris Ahern - University of Iowa
5:25 PM	Wrap-up	Samantha Cramer - Sophion Bioscience, Inc.
05:30 PM	Drinks reception

Wednesday September 24

Time	Title	Presenter
8:00 AM	Tea/coffee
8:55 AM	Welcome remarks	Duncan Jarman - Sophion Bioscience A/S
	Session 5	Chair: Theanne Griffiths - University of California, Davis
9:00 AM	Structural and functional investigation of the pharmacology and regulation of Ryanodine Receptors	Filip Van Petegem - University of British Columbia
9:45 AM	The importance of place in mechanosensitive ion channel activation	Miriam Goodman - Stanford University
10:10 AM	New from Sophion: Introducing Ethica M - an automated, high-throughput solution for 3D contractile tissues	Sophion Bioscience A/S
10:45 PM	Tea/coffee - exhibits and posters
	Session 6	Chair: TBA
11:15 AM	The remarkable specificity of KvS potassium channel subunits	Jon Sack - University of California, Davis
11:40 PM	Salt and water - developing chloride-channel inhibitors to treat hyponatremia	Merritt Maduke - Stanford University
12:05 PM	TBA	TBA
12:35 PM	How do cells sense force and why is it important?	Swetha Murthy - Oregon Health & Science University
1:00 PM	Lunch - exhibits and posters
	Session 7	Chair: Daniel Minor - University of California, San Francisco
2:00 PM	Narrowed pore conformation of aquaglyceroporin AQP3 revealed by cryo-EM	Daisuke Kozai - Institute of Science Tokyo (Poster Prize Winner, Japan ICMS2025)
2:25 PM	WRPRFa, an ASIC3-selective RFamide, reveals novel ASIC3 gating mechanisms	Jerry Chien - Latigo Biotherapeutics
2:50 PM	TBA	Ivy Dick - University of Maryland
3:15 PM	Neither holes nor leaks: connexin hemichannels as precise molecular chansporters	Jorge Contreras - University of California, Davis
3:40 PM	Best Poster Award (winner MUST be present)	Daniel Sauter - Sophion Bioscience, Inc.
3:50 PM	Wrap up & closing remarks	Michel Krall Jürgens and Samantha Cramer, Sophion Bioscience