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Satellite symposium to the European Calcium Channel Conference 2022

Sunday, May 22, 2022, at the CCB (M.01.470/M.01.490, east entrance)

 

 

 

Session 1 Chair: Thomas Heigl and Tamara Theiner

 

09:30

Emilio Carbone // University of Torino, Italy

 

L-type channelopathies causing autism: common gating changes identified in autistic mouse models

 

09:55

Anjali Rajadhyaksha // Cornell University, USA

 

Learning to Forget: Could neuropsychiatric risk gene cacna1c underlie individual susceptibility to addiction

 

10:20

Ryuichi Shigemoto // IST Austria

 

Presynaptic plasticity mediated by changes in number and distribution of Cav2.1 at the active zone

 

 

 

 

10:45

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

 

 

Session 2 Chair: Cornelia Ablinger and Noelia Jacobo-Piqueras

 

11:15

Ivy Dick // University of Maryland, USA

 

Variable effects of channelopathic mutations on CaV1.2 function

 

11:40

Gary Stephens // University of Reading, UK

 

Effects of the α2δ-like subunit CACHD1 on calcium channel function

 

12:05

Annette Dolphin // UCL, UK

 

Effects of mutation in Cache domain of α2δ-1 subunit

 

 

 

 

12:30

LUNCH BREAK

 

13:30

POSTER SESSION

 

15:30

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

 

 

Session 3 Chair: Simone Pelizzari and Wietske Tuinte

 

16:00

Manu Ben Johny // Columbia University, USA

 

Sodium Channelopathies: Distinct phenotypes, common mechanisms, and towards shared therapies

 

16:25

Gerald Zamponi // University of Calgary, Canada

 

Ubiquitination of T-type calcium channels – a molecular target for a new class of analgesics

 

16:50

Gerald Obermair

 

Closing remarks