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Deadline for poster submission: September 8thSymposium programme
Wednesday, September 22nd:
Venue: Hoge Heuvelcollege, Naamsestraat 69
18:00-24:00 Registration + get-together party
Thursday, September 23rd:
Venue: Huis Van Chèvres, Groot Begijnhof
Session 1 - chaired by Thomas Voets
09.30-09.45 Thomas Voets: Welcome and introduction
09.45-10.30 Rachelle Gaudet: Structural analysis of TRP channel
function
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
Session 2 - chaired by Baruch Minke
11.00-11.45 Giovanni Appendino: Adventurous TRPs: deorphanizing
TRPs with small molecules natural products
11.45-12.30 Stuart Bevan: Sensory TRP channels and pathophysiology
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Poster session
Session 3 - chaired by Shmuel Muallem
14.30-15.15 Rudi Vennekens: The TRP channel CAN-CAN
15.15-16.00 René Bindels: Minerals on the move: emerging role
of TRP’s.
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
Session 4 - chaired by Felix Viana
16.30-17.15 Reinhold Penner: TRPM2 - A Jack of all Trades
17.15-18.00 Ardem Patapoutian: How do you feel?
TRP ion channels as sensors of temperature and pain
19:30 Symposium Dinner:
(Venue: Faculty club, Groot Begijnhof)
Friday, September 24th:
Venue: Huis Van Chèvres, Groot Begijnhof
Session 5 - chaired by Indu Ambudkar
09.00-09.45 Lutz Birnbaumer: The TRPC-Orai Interplay
09.45-10.30 Gary Lewin: Identification of peripheral osmoreceptors and the role of TRPV4
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
Session 6 - chaired by Diomedes Logothetis
11.00-11.45 Thomas Gudermann: TRPM6 - magnesium and more
11.45-12.30 David Clapham: TRP Channels
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Poster session
Session 7 - chaired by Mike Zhu
14.30-15.15 Sven-Eric Jordt: TRPA1 in asthma and airway
chemosensation
15.15-16.00 Craig Montell: TRP channels: from sensory signaling
to neurodegenerative disease
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
Session 8 - chaired by Jim Putney
16.30-17.15 Dan Cohn: The TRPV4 bone dysplasia family
17.15-18.00 Bernd Nilius: Irritating TR(i)Ps: from
dying swans to donkeys on ice
19:00: Reception at Leuven town hall
Saturday, September 25th:
15:00: Academic session ‘Emeritus professor Bernd Nilius’ followed by reception
Venue: Promotiezaal, Naamsestraat 22
(all symposium participants are welcome!)
If you would like to attend the academic session and the reception, but don't want to register for the symposium, please drop us a line.
