jECS Scientific Program
31 August - 1 September 2024 | Cambridge, UKSaturday, 31st August
13:15 – 13:45
Welcome coffee
13:15 – 14:00
Registration
Check-In + set-up Posters
13:45 – 14:00
Welcome
14:00 – 14:45
jECS 1: Molecular control of calcium signaling
Chair: Helene Halkjær Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Raphaël Néré (University of Geneva, Switzerland): STIM1 translocation to the immune synapse in Jurkat is regulated by S-acylation
Loann Laubry (University of Geneva, Switzerland): The role of STIM1 and STIM1L in post-natal skeletal myogenesis
Qianru Mu and Franceska Ozola (University College London, UK): How a lysosomal ion channel switches its ion selectivity on demand
14:45
Break
15:00 – 15:45
jECS 2: Infection and inflammation
Chairs: Silke Chalmers (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Franziska Möckl (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany)
Rute Isabel Honorio (Rutgers University, USA): Deciphering the role of cGMP-PKG signaling in spontaneous calcium oscillations of Plasmodium falciparum during the intraerythrocytic cycle
Shao Ming Chan (University of Queensland, Australia): A high-throughput method to monitor live-cell calcium signalling changes during coronavirus infection
Inga Pauels (University of Münster, Germany): Endolysosomal Two-pore channel 2 impacts early inflammatory response
15:45
Break
16:00 – 16:45
jECS 3: Calcium and channel regulation
Chairs: Qianru (Maggie) Mu (University College London, UK) and Malene Brohus (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Maëliss Toth (Université Paris-Saclay, France): SERCA3 controls the a1-adrenoceptor-mediated calcium signaling through a NO/PKG dependent pathway in mouse aorta
Anaïs Saint-Martin Willer (Université Paris-Saclay, France): Role of CRACR2A in the development of pulmonary arterial hypertension
Yuequ Zhang (University of Groningen, Germany): Activation of SK channels facilitates human iPSC-neuronal differentiation and is involved in premature neuronal patterning in Alzheimer’s disease
16:45
Break
16:45 – 18:00
Social activity
18:00 – 19:00
Dinner
19:00 – 20:30
Poster session
20:30
Announcement of social activity winners and free time
Sunday, 1st September
9:00 – 9:45
jECS General Assembley
09:45 – 10:30
jECS 4: Calcium signaling in cancer
Chair: Femke Speelman-Rooms (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Ian de Ridder (KU Leuven, Belgium): The impact of recurrent disease-related mutations on Bcl-2’s function in Ca2+ signaling and venetoclax resistance
Emma Paydari (Aarhus University, Denmark): Calcium signalling crosstalk: Investigating interactions between cancer cells and cancer associated macrophages
Elisa Tonelli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy): Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: a focus on mitochondria and ER-mitochondria interactions
10:30
Coffee / Tea Break
10:50 – 12:00
jECS 5: Science career discussions
Chair: Gaia Gheradi (University of Padua, Italy)
10:50 – 11:10
11:10 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:00
Indu Ambudkar (NIH, USA)
Robert Campbell (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Discussion
12:00 – 12:45
Lunch
12:45 – 13:00
Prize announcements and final remarks
Sponsors
Thank you to our sponsors for making this event a success.
