Monday, 17th April 2023
08.00 Registration
08.30 Welcome Remarks
Session 1 – Chair: Luis Pardo University of Padova
09.00 Keynote: Damiano Rondelli – University of Illinois, Chicago
Cancer: a global challenge
09.45 Aamir Ahmed – University College, London
QPatch Automated Patch Clamp – an integral part of a novel drug reprofiling platform targeting Wnt signaling in cancer
10.15 Andrea Becchetti – University of Milan
hERG K+ channels and cell adhesion
10.45 Coffee Break – Exhibits and Posters
11.15 Jonathan Ashmore – University College, London
Variability, voltage and validation: using a QPatch automated patch clamp to investigate membrane signalling pathways in prostate cancer cells
11.45 Michael Pusch – Institute of Biophysics, Genova
Oxidation-activated ion channels in melanoma and pancreatic duct carcinoma
12.15 Jonathan Soboloff – Temple University, Philadelphia
TBA
12.45 Lunch (may be purchased outside Teatro Riccardi)
Session 2 – Chair: Luigi Leanza – University of Padova
14.30 Saverio Gentile – Medical University of South Carolina
TBA
15.00 Kevin Foskett – University of Pennsylvania
TBA
15.30 Barbara Ehrlich – Yale University
TBA
16.00 Wrap up
Tuesday, 18th April 2023
08.00 Registration
08.55 Welcome Remarks
Session 3 – Chair: Jonathan Ashmore – University College, London
09.00 Ruth Murrell-Lagnado – University of Sussex
Lysosomal P2X4 receptor ion channels: their regulation and role in breast cancer
09.30 Luis Pardo – Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen
Mechanisms underlying the influence of Kv10.1 on tumor progression: therapeutic implications
10.00 William Brackenbury – University of York
Sodium channels and the tumour ionic microenvironment
10.30 Coffee Break – Exhibits and Posters
11.15 Luigi Leanza – University of Padova
Ion channels and cell signaling in cancer
11.45 Metrion Biosciences
TBA
12.15 Daniel Sauter – Sophion Bioscience, Inc.
Automated Patch Clamp in Oncology Research and Drug Discovery
12.45 Lunch (may be purchased outside Teatro Riccardi)
Session 4 – Chair: Annarosa Archangeli – University of Florence
14.15 Natalia Prevarskaya – University of Lille
TBA
14.45 Mumin Alper Erdogan – Izmir Katip Celebi University
Anti-cancer effects of siRNA-mediated targeting of Nav1.7 channel in pancreatic cancer cell lines
15.30 Jean-Francois Rolland – Axxam SpA
Targeting ion channels in cancer drug discovery
16.00 Wrap up
Wednesday, 19th April 2023
08.55 Welcome Remarks
Session 5 – Chair: Saverio Gentile – Medical University of South Carolina
09.00 Ildiko Szabo – University of Padova
Targeting mitochondrial potassium channels against poor-prognosis cancers
09.30 Davide Delise – Medical University of South Carolina
TBA
10.00 TBA
10.30 Coffee Break – Exhibits and Posters
11.30 Annarosa Archangeli – University of Florence
TBA
12.00 Federico Sesti – Rutgers University
Integrin-K+ channel complexes at the crosstalk between cancer and neurological disease
12.30 Geoffrey Abbott – University of California, Irvine
Potassium channel-targeted small molecule discovery from plants
13.00 Awards and wrap up