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MONDAY - MAY 25th, 2026 |
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15:00 - 16:00 |
REGISTRATION |
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16:00 - 16:15 |
OPENING |
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16:15 - 17:00 |
PLENARY LECTURE |
Niels Voigt (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Buffer Breakdown: When Ca2+ Shock Absorbers Fail in Atrial Fibrillation. |
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17:00 - 18:15 |
SYMPOSIUM 1
Ion Channels and Calcium Homeostasis |
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Chairs: Juan Antonio Rosado & Antonio Felipe
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Sendoa Tajada (U Valladolid) Ion Channel Remodelling in Colon Cancer via Mitochondrial Transfer and Inhibition of Polyamine Synthesis.
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María Navarro-Pérez (U. Barcelona) Calcium-mediated Modulation of Kv1.3 at the Immunological Synapse.
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Juan A. Rosado (U. Extremadura) Analysis of the Heteromerization of Orai1 Variants.
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18:15 - 18:55 |
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS |
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19:45 - 21:00 |
WELCOME RECEPTION |
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TUESDAY - MAY 26th, 2026 |
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09:00 - 10:15 |
SYMPOSIUM 2
Channelopathies & Rare Diseases |
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Chairs: Álvaro Villarroel & Eva Delpón
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Xavier Altafaj (U Barcelona) Comprehensive delineation and precision medicine of NMDAR-related rare neurodevelopmental disorders: from biophysics to clinical trials.
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Raúl Estévez (U Barcelona). From Astrocyte Signalling to Therapy: Unravelling MLC Pathophysiology through GPRC5B, MLC1, and VRAC.
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Álvaro Villarroel (IBF-CSIC, Bilbao) Folding Defects During Translation in Rare Diseases.
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10:15 - 10:55 |
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS |
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12:00 - 12:50 |
SYMPOSIUM 3
Structure and Function of Ion Channels |
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Chairs: Mercedes Martín & Carmen Valenzuela
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Luis Octavio Romero García (U La Laguna) Functional and Structural Basis of TRPC3-mediated Cerebellar Ataxia.
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Beatriz Herguedas Francés (U Zaragoza) Reshaping the Desensitized State: Subunit and Editing-Dependent Dynamics in AMPA Receptors.
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12:50 - 13:30 |
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS |
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13:30 - 13:45 |
TALK BY 3BRAIN |
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Sercan Deniz (3Brain) Label-free functional imaging platforms for organoids, cell cultures and brain slices: 3Brain CorePlate™ technology.
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13:45 - 14:00 |
TALK BY SOPHION |
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Damian Bell (SOPHION) From Patch Pipettes to Planar Patch: Accelerated Electrophysiology via Automated Patch Clamp.
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14:00 - 15:00 |
LUNCH |
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15:05 - 15:20 |
TALK BY NANION |
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Nicoletta Murciano (NANION) High-throughput automated patch clamp of native lysosomes for early drug discovery.
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15:20 - 16:35 |
SYMPOSIUM 4
Neuronal Ion Channels |
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Chairs: Xavier Gasull & Rosa Señarís
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Guillaume Sandoz (U Cote d’Azur-CNRS) Switching On and Off Pain with Light.
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Nuria Comes (U Barcelona-IDIBAPS) Molecular and Functional Insights into Ion Channels Variants in Neuropathic Pain.
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Jorge Fernández-Trillo (IN-CSIC, Alicante) Piezo2 in Mechanical Pain: Insights from in vivo Recordings of Nociceptors.
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16:35 - 17:15 |
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS |
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17:15 - 18:00 |
PLENARY LECTURE |
José Jalife (CNIC, Madrid)
Rescuing the Heart from the Tornadoes of Sudden Cardiac Death. |
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18:30 - 19:30 |
GUIDED TOUR |
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20:30 - 22:30 |
GALA DINNER |
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WEDNESDAY - MAY 27th, 2026 |
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09:30 - 10:15 |
PLENARY LECTURE |
Thomas Voets (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Small Molecule TRP Channel Modulators for the Treatment of Pain and Neurological Disorders. |
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10:15 - 11:30 |
SYMPOSIUM 5
Ion Channel Pharmacology and Therapeutics |
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Chairs: Antonio R. Artalejo & Victoria Moreno
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Marta Gutiérrez-Rodríguez (IQM-CSIC) Tailoring Pharmacological and Fluorescent Probes to Study Kv Channelosomes.
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Ricardo Caballero (UCM) New Mechanisms of Drug-induced Modulation of Cardiac Ion Currents: Changing Old Paradigms.
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Victoria Moreno (CIPF, Valencia) Ion channels for Neuronal Repair.
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11:30 - 12:00 |
COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS |
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12:00 - 12:40 |
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS |
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12:40 - 13:25 |
PLENARY LECTURE |
Antonio Ferrer-Montiel (IDIBE-UMH, Elche)
TRP Channels Involved in Migraine Sex Dimorphism. |
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13:25 - 13:45 |
CLOSING CEREMONY & PRIZES |
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14:00 - 15:00 |
LUNCH & FAREWELL |
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