Key Dates

21 July 2013
On site registration opens

Further key dates

Wednesday 24 July

Keynote lectures

IUPS Keynote
8.30 - 9.15, Wednesday 24 July
T-type calcium channels, thalamic firing modes, and control of consciousness and cognition
Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
IUPS Keynote
8.30 - 9.15, Wednesday 24 July
Mitochondrial superoxide flashes
Peking University, China
IUPS August Krogh Lecture (sponsored by SPS)
8.30 - 9.15, Wednesday 24 July
Role of ATP - regulated potassium channels in pancreatic alpha- and beta-cells
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Symposia

Generation of respiratory and sympathetic activities in health and diseases

Benedito Machado (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) and Ann Goodchild (Macquarie University, Australia)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July

Insight into the physiological roles of membrane transporters from drug transport studies

Catriona Anderson (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) and Ikumi Tamai (Kanazawa University, Japan)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July

Mechanical stress and vascular remodeling

Qingbo Xu (King's College London, United Kingdom) and Nanping Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July

Molecular basis of cardiac conduction system in disease

Halina Dobrzynski (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and Dario DiFrancesco (University of Milan, Italy)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July

Network oscillations: Binding brain areas to functional structures

Attila Sik (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) and Anton Sirota (University of Tübingen, Germany)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Ricardo Leão (University of São Paulo, Brazil) and Ana Belén Elgoyhen (INGEBI-CONICET, Argentina)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July

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)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July

Peptide modulation of hedonic food intake

Gareth Leng (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Zsolt Liposits (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July

Role of TRP channels in the cardiovascular system

Susan Brain (King's College London, United Kingdom) and Scott Earley (Colorado State University, United States)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July

The glutamatergic synapse: A neurodegenerative and psychiatric disease target

David Wyllie (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Lynn Raymond (University of British Columbia, Canada)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July
Annette Dolphin (University College London, United Kingdom) and Roberto Chiesa (Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research, Italy)
0930 - 1130, Wednesday 24 July

Plenary

IUPS TP Feng Lecture
11.45 - 12.45, Wednesday 24 July
Sifting circuits for motor control
Columbia University, United States

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)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July

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)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July

Collateral vessels: Adaptive growth mechanisms and functional characteristics

Ulrich Pohl (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July

Gastrointestinal flexibility: Ecology, evolution and microbial symbiosis

Hannah Carey (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States) and Stephen Secor (University of Alabama, United States)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July

Mechanistic insights into genotype-to-phenotype relationships

Daniel Beard (Medical College of Wisconsin, United States) and Elena Marchiori (Radboud University, Netherlands)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July

Molecular mechanisms of transmitter release

Jens Rettig (Saarland University, Germany) and Tao Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July

Physiology of protein palmitoylation

Mike Shipston (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Masaki Fukata (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July

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)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July

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)
1430 - 1630, Wednesday 24 July
Godfrey Smith (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom) and John Bridge (University of Utah, United States)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July

Vascular calcification

Yvonne Alexander (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and Cecilia Giachelli (University of Washington, United States)
1415 - 1615, Wednesday 24 July

Keynote lectures

IUPS Keynote
16.30 - 17.15, Wednesday 24 July
An overview of Physiome activities
University of Auckland, New Zealand
IUPS Keynote
16.30 - 17.15, Wednesday 24 July
New insights in the fetal origins of adult cardiometabolic disease
University of Alberta, Canada
Sharpey-Schafer Prize Lecture (The Physiological Society & Experimental Physiology)
16.30 - 17.15, Wednesday 24 July
Structure and function of voltage-gated sodium channels at atomic resolution
University of Washington, United States

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)
19:30 - 20:30, Wednesday 24 July
Integration and modulation of intercellular signalling underlying blood flow control
University of Missouri School of Medicine and Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, Columbia MO USA, United States