Thursday 25 July
Keynote lectures
The Paton Prize Lecture (The Physiological Society & Experimental Physiology)
Purinergic signalling: the discovery and current developments
IUPS Keynote
The renin-angiotensin system: new concepts and perspectives
IUPS Keynote
TRPV1 channels: from molecules to physiology
Symposia
Brain imaging – an ethical time bomb?
Joanna Wardlaw (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Hank Greely (Stanford University, United States)
Epigenetics: A new regulator of gene expression and cardiovascular diseases
Seppo Ylä-Herttuala (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) and Loren Wold (Nationwide Children’s Hospital, United States)
High resolution microscopy (nanoscopy) and correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM)
Katharina Gaus (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Jens Rettig (Saarland University, Germany)
Sergey Kasparov (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) and Maiken Nedergaard (University of Rochester, United States)
Richard Vaughan-Jones (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) and Yin Hua Zhang (Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of)
Membrane potential investigated with voltage sensitive dyes
Marco Canepari (INSERM U836, France) and Carl Petersen (EPFL, Switzerland)
Microvascular networks: Causes and consequences
Axel Pries (Charité, Berlin, Germany) and Ed van Bavel (AMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Myometrial physiology - time to translate?
Susan Wray (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) and Jorge Cavajal (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Physiology and mechanisms of the circadian control
Karl-Heinz Herzig (Oulu University, Finland) and Greg Atkinson (Teesside University, United Kingdom)
Recent advances in Renin-Angiotensin System and implications in health and disease
Mohan Raizada (University of Florida, United States) and Genevieve Nguyen (INSERM, Collège de France, France)
Solute and ion cotransporters and exchangers at atomic resolution
David Thwaites (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) and Olga Boudker (Weill Cornell Medical College, United States)
Plenary
Annual Review Prize Lecture (The Physiological Society & The Journal of Physiology)
The molecular mechanisms of signaling at chemical synapses
Lunch and Posters (12:45 to 14:15 - Hall 3)
Symposia
An update on inherited renal tubular disorders
René Bindels (Radboud University , Netherlands) and Fiona Karet (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Cardiovascular developments that changed the world
Holly Shiels (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) and Jonathan Stecyk (University of Alaska Anchorage, United States)
Cardiovascular regulation by miRNAs
Giovanni Mann (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Imaging mouse visual cortex function and plasticity
Mark Hübener (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany) and Frank Sengpiel (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
A Mark Evans (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Maria Gomez (Lund University, Sweden)
Orchestrating signals towards early therapeutically relevant clinical measures of neurodegeneration
Graham Collingridge (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) and Paul Wren (Neurodegeneration DPU, GlaxoSmithKline, China)
Pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation
Ulrich Schotten (University Maastricht, Netherlands)
Physiological roles of non-coding RNAs
Andreas Werner (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) and Noora Kotaja (University of Turku, Finland)
The case for comparative and evolutionary physiology in clinical research
Michael Joyner (Mayo Clinic, United States) and Sandy Martin (University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States)
The physiology of rapid responses to estrogen
Brian Harvey (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland) and Ellis Levin (University of California, Irvine, United States)
Understanding the etiology of hypertension
Hidefumi Waki (Wakayama Medical University Sch. of Medicine, Japan) and Andrew Allen (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Keynote lectures
IUPS Robert Pitts Lecture
Sensing, signaling and sorting pathways in kidney epithelial cells
Joan Mott Prize Lecture (The Physiological Society & Experimental Physiology)
How are memories represented and recollected by the human brain?
IUPS Keynote
Rho proteins in cardiovascular physiology and diseases
Posters (17:15 to 19:00 - Hall 3)