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Metrion Biosciences and AstraZeneca are delighted to be co-hosting the 2023 Cambridge Ion Channel Forum at the Babraham Research Campus Conference Centre on the afternoon of Wednesday 10th May 2023. You will have the opportunity to enjoy a series of presentations from esteemed ion channel scientists, promote your research during the dedicated poster session and network with other ion channel enthusiasts.

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Peripherally expressed NaV1.1 is critical for sensory proprioceptive signaling and motor coordination.

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At the Cardiac Safety Symposium you can learn about newest insights on current challenges in safety pharmacology, cardiac physiology, electrophysiology and contractility assessments of stem cell-derived and native cardiomyocytes.

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The primary goal of this course is to demonstrate, through lectures and laboratory work, the different biophysical properties of ion channels that enable neurons to perform unique physiological functions in various neural systems.

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This conference will bring together leading academic, clinical and industry speakers from the ion channel, rare disease, and therapeutic discovery fields.

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Phosphorylation of the cardiac NaV1.5 channel pore-forming subunit is extensive and critical in modulating channel expression and function, yet the regulation of NaV1.5 by phosphorylation of its accessory proteins remains elusive.

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Source: Veneno Technologies

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Source: GSK

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The program will address the rapidly moving research on receptor-regulated calcium signaling and the critical questions that are key to establishing future therapies for cardiovascular, airway, gut, liver, immunoinflammatory, metabolic and neurological disorders.

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This meeting will explore the latest research in epithelial transport physiology and the role of ion channels and transporters in health and disease, as well as showcasing various emerging techniques in the field of membrane transport.

Plymouth

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The Microelectrode Techniques for Cell Physiology Workshop provides postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers with both hands-on and theoretical training in electrophysiological and associated techniques.

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This workshop aims to cover all aspects of NALCN research, including involvement of patient families & physicians, and research highlighting in vivo studies, along with NALCN molecular structure and function.

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Keynote speakers: Prof. Raimund Dutzler (University of Zurich) and Dr. Sabine Hadida (Vertex Pharmaceuticals)

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This symposium will showcase the myriad aspects of Kv7 research, with emphasis on emerging research areas.

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This 2023 SGP Meeting will be focused on the topic of pain and will offer an excellent opportunity for participants to interact with leading scientists tackling impactful questions in the pain field, from the biophysical to behavioral level.

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World-renowned speakers, pioneers in the field of channelopathies, will present their latest discoveries.

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Source: PRNewswire

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Silvia Priori's lab studies mechanisms of genetic arrhythmias.

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This symposium, the 7th in an ongoing series, will showcase the most recent advances to aid the design of new ion channel therapeutics and promote interaction between scientists with a shared interest in the field of ion channel drug discovery.

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In this webinar, attendees will gain insight into the realm of automated patch clamp assays, exploring the mechanisms of pain.

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Ephaptic interactions mediated by extracellular potentials might contribute to cardiac conduction when gap junctional coupling is reduced, but this mechanism is still controversial.

San Diego

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The Biophysical Society annual meetings are the largest annual gathering of biophysicists around the world.

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The acid-sensitive chloride ion channel ASOR is found in almost all our cells. ASOR plays a role in acid-induced cell death, but a role in intracellular processes, for example in the transport of vesicles, is now coming to the fore.

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Source: University College Dublin

New study identifies the TRPV4 channel as playing a key role in translating mechanical signals from a baby's movement in the womb to healthy development of the skeleton.

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Dravet syndrome is severe childhood-onset epilepsy, caused by loss of function mutations in the SCN1A gene. Novel therapies aim to restore SCN1A expression in order to address all disease manifestations.

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Source: Flinders University

Targeting Piezo2 could provide a new avenue for treating chronic pain associated with gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome.

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Source: University of East Anglia

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Source: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

A new method for modulating neural activity using optogenetic polymerization and assembly of electroactive polymers on specified cellular membranes.

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Source: Dundalk Institute of Technology

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Source: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The recurrent SCN1A p.R1636Q variant causes a clinical entity with a wider clinical spectrum than previously reported, characterized by neonatal onset epilepsy and absence of prominent movement disorder.

Lille, France

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This meeting will be dedicated to exploring ion channel regulation from molecular biophysics to physiology and clinical applications in cancer biology. Meeting will also include one ECS session: "Calcium signaling in cancer".

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Repurposing VGSC-inhibiting medications to cancer may hold promise for reducing metastasis.

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Anna Greka leads a program focused on dissecting fundamental mechanisms of disrupted cellular homeostasis in genetically-defined kidney, metabolic and degenerative diseases...

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The pharmacological activity of pain-causing toxins can provide critical insights into the molecular mechanisms underpinning sensory neuron function and pain...

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Source: Aarhus University

Challenged urine bicarbonate excretion may be an in vivo biomarker of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) function.

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Source: Metrion

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Source: Metrion Biosciences

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Source: Nature careers

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Source: Nanion

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Source: Nanion

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Many de novo missense mutations of SCN8A, the gene that encodes for Nav1.6, have been identified and patients have seizure onset between birth and 12 months of age...

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Source: Imperial College London

The high-throughout, cellular-resolution imaging data indicate that Vm fluctuates dynamically in subpopulations of highly aggressive breast cancer cell lines.

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Source: Weill Cornell Medicine

Anionic lipids unlock the gates of select ion channels in the pacemaker family

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Source: University College London

UCL researchers developed a gene therapy strategy that self-selects pathologically overactive neurons and down-regulates their excitability via controlled expression of Kv1.1.

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Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine

Elevated viscosity counterintuitively increases the motility of various cell types in a TRPV4-dependent manner.

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Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine

TRPM7 channels regulate breathing during sleep in obesity by acting peripherally in the carotid bodies.

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Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine

Researchers discovered that blocking the TRPC6 channel in genetically modified mice with severe or moderate Duchenne muscular dystrophy substantially improves their skeletal and cardiac muscle function, bone deformities and survival.

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Source: University of Colorado

cAMP and voltage modulate rat auditory mechanotransduction by decreasing the stiffness of gating springs.

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Source: MIT

While the biosynthesis of the voltage-gated Ca2+ channels does not play a major role in regulating their abundance at presynaptic active zones, both trafficking and recycling at active zones are important regulatory steps.

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Source: Tokyo Institute of Technology

Inspired by mechanosensitive potassium channels found in nature, researchers have developed the first synthetic mechanosensitive potassium channel.

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Source: Fierce Biotech

Researchers showed that the Piezo2 channels in Merkel cells are responsible for the itch triggered by mechanical stimulation in dry skin.

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Source: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Researcher have discovered two naturally occurring channelrhodopsins enabling optogenetic control of K+ gradients, which is promising for the study and potential treatment of potassium channelopathies such as epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease and long-QT syndrome and other cardiac arrhythmias.

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Source: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

New findings elucidate mechanisms of closed-state inactivation and voltage-dependent activation of the KV4 channel.

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Source: Caraway Therapeutics

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Source: NMD Pharma

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Source: Fierce Biotech

Scientists demonstrated that prokaryotic sodium channels can be directly, specifically, and stably expressed in cardiomyocytes through viral gene delivery to augment tissue excitability and conduction.

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Source: Ligand Pharmaceuticals

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Source: MIT

Human neurons have fewer ion channels compared to the neurons of other mammals.

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Source: Metrion Biosciences

Nanion Technologies

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Source: Nanion Technologies

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Source: Metrion Biosciences

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Source: Metrion Biosciences

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Source: MIT

An essential protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the envelope protein E, forms a homopentameric cation channel that is important for virus pathogenicity.

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Source: The Kavli Prize

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the 2020 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their transformative discovery of receptors for temperature and pressure.”