Organized by Vby Barbara Ribeiro (L’institut du thorax, Nantes, France)

Jamie Vandenberg (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Australia)

“Can ion channel functional genomics assays help predict risk of sudden cardiac death”

Rupamanjari Majumder (L’institut du thorax, Nantes, France)

“Computational cardiac optogenetics to investigate mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias”

Pau Gorostiza Langa (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelone, Spain)

““Controlling the activity of neuronal ion channels and receptors with light: from single synapses to brain waves”

Selected speaker:

Julia Kacher (LPCT, Université de Lorraine)

“Ai-driven pipeline for predicting the dynamic gating pathways of voltage-gated ion channels”

Organized by Adèle Faucherre (IGF, Montpellier, France)

Anthony Coté (University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany)

"Organotypic Cardiac Slices from Human Hearts as a Platform for Antiarrhythmic Drug Testing”

Christopher Beaudoin (University of Oxford, UK)

“Modelling supramolecular clusters of voltage-gated sodium channels in the cardiomyocyte perinexal space”

Aline Rio (L'institut du thorax, Nantes, France)

“Exploration of the HERG channel interactome for a better understanding of inherited cardiac arrhythmias”

Marvin Gaillardon (Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Montpellier, France)

“Genetic ablation of L-type CaV1.3 channels in cardiac conduction system induces bradycardia and increased susceptibility to atrial fibrillation”

Organized by Vincent Seutin (GIGA Neurosciences, lab of Neurophysiology, Liège, Belgium)

Joost Hoenderop (Department of Medical BioSciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

“Novel aspects of renal magnesium transport in health and disease”

Karin Sipido (Experimental Cardiology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)

“Heterogeneity of cardiac ion channels in disease – new insights for arrhythmias”

Heinz Beck (Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany)

“Dendritic mechanisms of cognitive comorbidities in epilepsy”

Selected speaker:

Jean-François Desaphy (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)

“Do CLC-2 chloride channels play a role in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma?”

Organized by Alban Girault (LPCM UR UPJV4667, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France)

Serena Hachem (L’institut du thorax, Nantes, France)

“Screening and optimization of cell-penetrating peptides for delivery in human cardiomyocytes”

Nurcan Inci (Neurophysiology Lab, GIGA Neurosciences, Liège University, Belgium)

“Comprehensive in vitro evaluation of five Nav blockers in two mutants responsible for Paramyotonia Congenita“

Frans Lisse (Ghent University, Belgium):

‘’Cholesterol as a modulator of the IKs channel complex’’

Julien Louradour (University of Bern, Switzerland)

“Beneficial APD-shortening effects, but deleterious negative inotropism of IKs-activator

Docosahexaenoyl glycine (DHA-gly) in long QT syndrome type 2”

Organized by Valerio Farfariello (Laboratoire PhyCell - INSERM UMR1003, Lille, France)

Ildiko Szabo (Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy)

“Multiple roles of mitochondrial ion channels in poor prognosis cancers”

Geert Bultynck (Department Cellular & Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Belgium)

“BAPTA, an intracellular calcium chelator, and its impact on metabolism & cell death in B-cell cancers: sadly, not at all a story about calcium”

Ivan Bogeski (University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany)

“Calcium and redox signals at cellular interfaces: Implications for immunity and cancer”

Selected speaker:

Marina Villaro (Instituto de Neurociencias, UMH-CSIC, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain)

“Cold-activated spinal circuitry and TRP channel contribution in chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN)”

Organized by Jean-Sébastien Rougier (Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Berne, Suisse)

Julian Schroeder (Division of Biological Sciences, La Jolla CA, USA)

“Identification of the Stomatal CO 2 sensor that Controls Plant Water Loss and Water Use Efficiency”

Alexis De Angeli (IPSiM, Montpellier, France)

“Structure and function of plant ion channels”

Anthony Lewis (Ion Channel Research Group, Portsmouth, United Kingdom)

“Gating and regulation of fungal potassium channels”

Selected speaker:

Elsa Demes-Causse (Institut des Sciences des Plantes de Montpellier, France)

“Vacuolar malate and fumarate transport through ATALMTs”

Artem Kondratskyi (Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France):

"Amazing stories of ion channels in action”

Organized by Laetitia Mony (Institute of Biology of Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)

Shujia Zhu (Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China)

Native NMDA receptors in the brain: from atomic structure to synaptic physiology

Shai Berlin (Technion, Haifa, Israel)

Genetically-encoded toxins acting on Kv channels and NMDA receptors

Marie Prévost (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)

Mechanisms of nanobody modulation of a pentameric channel-receptor

Selected speaker:

Jennifer D. Noonan (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

“Making an AMPA receptor slow”