Wednesday 24 July
Keynote lectures
IUPS Keynote
T-type calcium channels, thalamic firing modes, and control of consciousness and cognition
IUPS Keynote
Mitochondrial superoxide flashes
IUPS August Krogh Lecture (sponsored by SPS)
Role of ATP - regulated potassium channels in pancreatic alpha- and beta-cells
Symposia
Generation of respiratory and sympathetic activities in health and diseases
Benedito Machado (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) and Ann Goodchild (Macquarie University, Australia)
Insight into the physiological roles of membrane transporters from drug transport studies
Catriona Anderson (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) and Ikumi Tamai (Kanazawa University, Japan)
Mechanical stress and vascular remodeling
Qingbo Xu (King's College London, United Kingdom) and Nanping Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Molecular basis of cardiac conduction system in disease
Halina Dobrzynski (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and Dario DiFrancesco (University of Milan, Italy)
Network oscillations: Binding brain areas to functional structures
Attila Sik (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) and Anton Sirota (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Ricardo Leão (University of São Paulo, Brazil) and Ana Belén Elgoyhen (INGEBI-CONICET, Argentina)
New advances in the physiome and systems biology
Andrew McCulloch (University of California, San Diego, United States) and Chae Hun Leem (University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Korea, Republic of)
Peptide modulation of hedonic food intake
Gareth Leng (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Zsolt Liposits (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Role of TRP channels in the cardiovascular system
Susan Brain (King's College London, United Kingdom) and Scott Earley (Colorado State University, United States)
The glutamatergic synapse: A neurodegenerative and psychiatric disease target
David Wyllie (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Lynn Raymond (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Annette Dolphin (University College London, United Kingdom) and Roberto Chiesa (Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research, Italy)
Plenary
IUPS TP Feng Lecture
Sifting circuits for motor control
Lunch and Posters (12:45 to 14:15 - Hall 3)
Symposia
Atomic structures and molecular mechanisms of voltage-gated and ligand-gated ion channels
Raimund Dutzler (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and João Morais Cabral (IBMC, Portugal)
Auxiliary AMPA receptor subunits: Their role in central synaptic transmission
Stuart Cull-Candy (University College London, United Kingdom) and Mark Farrant (University College London, United Kingdom)
Collateral vessels: Adaptive growth mechanisms and functional characteristics
Ulrich Pohl (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany)
Gastrointestinal flexibility: Ecology, evolution and microbial symbiosis
Hannah Carey (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States) and Stephen Secor (University of Alabama, United States)
Mechanistic insights into genotype-to-phenotype relationships
Daniel Beard (Medical College of Wisconsin, United States) and Elena Marchiori (Radboud University, Netherlands)
Molecular mechanisms of transmitter release
Jens Rettig (Saarland University, Germany) and Tao Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Physiology of protein palmitoylation
Mike Shipston (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Masaki Fukata (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
The role of intrinsic electrical activity in the maturation and refinement of the auditory and visual systems
Michael Evans (Keele University, United Kingdom) and Corné Kros (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)
The role of membrane transport in tumor cell growth and metabolism
Stefan Broer (Australian National University, Australia) and Yoshikatsu Kanai (Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
Godfrey Smith (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom) and John Bridge (University of Utah, United States)
Vascular calcification
Yvonne Alexander (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and Cecilia Giachelli (University of Washington, United States)
Keynote lectures
IUPS Keynote
An overview of Physiome activities
IUPS Keynote
New insights in the fetal origins of adult cardiometabolic disease
Sharpey-Schafer Prize Lecture (The Physiological Society & Experimental Physiology)
Structure and function of voltage-gated sodium channels at atomic resolution
Posters (17:15 to 19:00 - Hall 3)
Plenary
The 2013 Malpighi Award lecture (A lecture awarded and supported by the European Society for Microcirculation and the British Microcirculation Society)
Integration and modulation of intercellular signalling underlying blood flow control