Day Four                            

Session 6. Immune System Channelopathies

Co-Chairs: Mohamed Boutjdir and Mohamed Chahine

Pietro Enea Lazzerini, University of Siena
Autoimmune cardiac channelopathies and heart rhythm disorders

Stefan Feske, New York University
Ion Channelopathies Causing Immune Dysfunction – Lessons from CRAC Channels and Beyond

Ahmed Emam Abdelnaby – University of Pittsburgh
Hierarchical functions of native Orai channel isoforms in store-operated Ca²⁺ entry and NFAT induction

Santiago Partida-Sanchez – Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Highly effective modulator therapies repair neutrophil’s dysfunction in people with Cystic
Fibrosis channelopathy

Nattaya Thongsepee – University of Montpellier
Novel Electrophysiological Cellular Model for Pharmacological Screening of Compounds
Targeting the NALCN Channelosome

Coffee break & poster session

Session 7. Neurological Channelopathies

Co-Chairs: Nadine Ortner and Valentina Di Biase

Yves De Koninck, The CERVO Research Center
Opto-electrical probing of single cell intrinsic properties in vivo to reveal ion channels
underlying chronic pain-induced depression

Stephanie Schorge, University College London
From channelopathy to treatment: Using gene therapy with ion channels to treat
neurological disorders

Ines Elbini – Institut Pasteur de Tunis
Kv1.3's Pivotal Role in taming inflammation and proteinopathy across neurodegeneration

Arnaud Monteil – University of Montpellier
De Novo Variants Of NALCN Differentially Impact Both The Phenotypic Spectrum Of Patients
And The Biophysical Properties Of The NALCN Current

Horia C. Hermenean – University of Innsbruck
From mouse to man, from genetics to biophysics: a multimodal framework of investigating
CACNA1D (Cav1.3) channelopathies

Lunch & poster session

Session 8. Structural Channelopathies

Co-Chairs: Philippe Lory and Klaus Liedl

Paul Linsdell, Dalhousie University
Functional Architecture of the CFTR Chloride Channel

Filip Van Petegem, University of British Columbia
Arrhythmias and myopathies: insights into Ryanodine Receptor malfunction via cryo-EM

Coffee break & poster session

Dominic Schneiter – University of Bern
Cryo-EM structures reveal multi-site lipid coupling in the Ca²⁺-activated channel TRPM4

Aurelien Chatelier – University of Poitiers
Functional expression of the voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.5 in mouse intrinsic
cardiac neurons: impact on neuronal action potential

Coffee break & poster session

Closing notes and Awards 

By Yassine El Hiani, Nadine Ortner, and Hugues Abriel