The 35th Ion channels meeting Preliminary program for the 2026 edition
16:00 - 19:00
Registration / Check-In
Welcome of the meeting attendees
19:00
Welcome drink and Dinner
21:00
Plenary lecture: Pr. Stefan Feske (New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA)
Novel Ion channels and Transporters in Immunity
8:30
Opening session
8:45
Symposium 1: “When mechanics drives biology”
Organized by Rémi PEYRONNET (Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany)
Thomas Grutter (CBST, UMR 7199, Strasbourg, France)
Optical control of PIEZO channels provides new insights into mechanogating
Medha M. Pathak (UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA)
Molecular Choreography of Piezo1 in Development and Repair
Annette Hammes (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin,Germany)
PIEZO2 mechanotransduction in coronary angiogenesis and endothelial fate specification
Selected speaker
Thomas Manicom Ramsamy (Institut for Advanced Biosciences, Grenoble, France)
An epigenetic BRG1–P300 module gates mechanosensitive-channel expression and endothelial dysfunction in cerebral cavernous malformations.
10:30
Sponsor presentation
10:45
Coffee break
11:15
Oral communication session 1 : “Ion channel/transporter diversity across species”
Organized by Laetitia MONY (Institut de Biologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
Sara Kaaki (Laboratoire Physiologie, Ecologie et Environnement (P2E), Université d’Orléans, Orléans, France)
Honeybee α1α8β1 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor generates several distinct stoichiometries associated to acetylcholine activation.
Luca Pigelet (Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France)
Species-specific properties of ASICS in human DRG neurons.
Sarah Shoushrah (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Bonn, Germany)
Do homomeric assemblies of human epithelial sodium channels (ENAC) exists? Limitations of the Xenopus laevis oocytes model.
George Parsons (Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom)
Reshaping the binding pocket of APC superfamily solute carriers (SLCs).
12:15 -12:45
1‐minute oral presentation for posters (even numbers)
12:45
Lunch
14:00
Poster session 1 (even numbers)
15:30
Coffee break
15:45
Sponsor presentation
16:00
Symposium 2: ““Channelopathies & Transporteropathies: rare variants, broad impact”
Organized by Olga ANDRINI (MeLiS, CNRS UMR 5284, INSERM U1314, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France)