!!Ion Channels Trimming the Brain International Symposium “''Ion channels trimming the brain''” will be held at __Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology (Kiev, Ukraine)__ on __September 24-26, 2015__. The Symposium will be dedicated to several important dates: 40 years of intracellular perfusion, 35 years after a discovery of proton receptor and 70th anniversary of Academia Europaea member Oleg Krishtal. \\ \\ The symposium is supported by Academia Europaea. \\ \\ __More information is available [here|http://usn.org.ua/conf15].__ \\ %%center !__PROGRAM__ %% \\ %%center __1 day, Thursday, September 24, Conference Hall__ %% \\ *13:30 – 15:00 – Registration *15:00 – 15:30 – Opening Ceremony. Oleg Krishtal *15.30 – 16.00 – Nana Voitenko. Oleg Krishtal and ion channels *16.00 – 17.00 – Greetings *17:00 – Welcome Party \\ %%center __2 day, Friday, September 25, Conference Hall__ %% \\ ''__Chair – Alexej Verkhratsky__'' *10:00 – 10:30 – __Sierd Cloetingh__ (President of Academia Europaea) - ''Challenges and opportunities for Science in Europe: perspectives from Academia Europaea and the European Research Council'' *10:30 – 11:00 – __Jerzy Duszyński__ (President of the Polish Academy of Sciences) - ''Recent challenges and opportunities for the Polish Academy of Sciences'' *11:00 – 11:30 – __Eva Kondorosi__ (Chair of the Working Group on Widening European Participation of the European Research Council and member of the European Research Council) - T''owards widening of Pan-European participation in the research opportunities provided by the European Research Council '' *11:30 - 12:00 – Coffee Break ''__Chair – Dmitri Rusakov__'' *12:00 – 12:30 – __Alexej Verkhratsky__ (Manchester University, Manchester, UK) - ''Principles of Neurogliopathology'' *12:30 – 13:00 – __Ole Peterson__ (Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK) - ''35 years of giga-seal patch clamp current recording in non-neuronal cells'' *13:00 – 13:30 – __Alexey Boyarsky__ (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) - ''ScienceWISE - collaborative semantic environment for science *13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch, ''Seminar on High-throughput computing in biological research'' ''__Chair - Martha Nowycky__'' *14:30 – 15:00 – __Dmitri Rusakov__ (University College London, London, UK) - ''Nanomolar Ca2+ landscapes in neurons and glia unveiled with time-resolved fluorescence microscopy '' *15:00 – 15:30 – __Shyam S. Chatterjee__ (Institute of Medical Engineering and Biophysics, Research Centre Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany) - ''From covalent bonds to phyto-pharmacology via ion channels for trimming the brain'' *15:30 – 16:00 – __Evgeni Ponimaskin__ (Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany) - ''Functional interplay between 5-HT7 receptor, MMP-9, and CD44 in the regulation of neuronal plasticity '' *16:00 - 16:30 – Coffee Break ''__Chair - Aleksandr Zholos__'' *16:30 – 17:00 – __Georgy Bakalkin__ (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden) - ''Endogenous Opioid System in Spinal Cord Plasticity '' *17:00 – 17:30 – __Boris Safronov__ (Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal) - ''Nociceptive processing in the superficial dorsal horn'' *17.30 – 18.00 – __Martha Nowycky__ (New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA) - ''TRPC4/5 channels in neurons'' *18.00 – 18.30 – __Emilio Carbone__ (University of Torino, Torino, Italy) – ''Cav1.3, BK and SK channels as regulators of neuron-like firing in neurosecretory cells'' *19.00 – 22.00 – Dinner (by invitation) \\ %%center __3 day, Saturday, September 26, Conference Hall__ %% \\ ''__Chair - Emilio Carbone __'' *10:00 – 10:30 – __Aleksandr Zholos__ (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine) - ''TRP channels in health and disease: their pharmacology, biophysics and species differences'' *10:30 – 11:00 – __Jacek Kuznicki__ (International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland) - ''SOCE in neurons in health and disease'' *11:00 – 11:30 – __Aleksandr Petrenko __(Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, RF) - ''Receptors for hydroxyl'' *11:30 - 11:45 – Coffee Break ''__Chair – Nana Voitenko __'' *11:45 – 11:50 – ''Platon Kostyuk Award 2015 Ceremony and young scientists’ session'' *11:50 – 12:00 – ''Talk of the Kostyuk Awardee '' *12:00 – 12:10 – __Volodymir Krotov__ (Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kyiv, Ukraine) - ''Pain-induced changes in synaptic drive and postsynaptic AMPARs in dorsal horn neurons'' *12:10 – 12:20 – __Elena Isaeva__ (Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology. Kyiv, Ukraine) – ''Contribution of PAR1 in epileptogenesis'' *12:20 – 12:30 – __Volodymyr Cherkas__ (Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kyiv, Ukraine) – ''Hippocalcin signaling in hippocampal neurons '' *12:30 – 12:40 – __Oleksii Grygogov__ (Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kyiv, Ukraine) – ''Role of K+ channels in firing hippocampal neurons'' *12:40 – 12:50 – __Oleksandr Maximyuk__ (Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kyiv, Ukraine) – ''Novel antagonist of ASIC channels'' \\ [Final Program|ICTB_Symposium_Program.pdf] \\ \\ __The Venue__ The symposium will be held in Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology: 4 Bogomoletz St., Kyiv, Ukraine \\ \\ __Registration__ Registration is free for all participants. Special invitation is required for dinner and boat trip. \\ \\ ----- %%columns-400;300; [{Image src='AE_logo.jpg' caption='' height='200' alt='AE_logo.jpg'}] ---- [{Image src='ion_channels.jpg' caption='' height='200' alt='ion_channels.jpg'}] %%