40th congress of the international union of physiological sciences

IUPS 2025

a joint meeting with

EUROPHYSIOLOGY

11. – 14. September 2025 | Frankfurt/Main

40th congress of the international union of physiological sciences

a joint meeting with

11. – 14. September 2025 | Frankfurt/Main

IUPS 2025

EUROPHYSIOLOGY

Pre-Congress Symposia

The Organising Commitee is delighted to announce a number of Pre-Congress Symposia on Thursday, 11 September 2025.

The meetings are FREE to attend, but you need to be registered for IUPS 2025.

To attend the Pre-Congress Symposia you are required to register for the conference.

The Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings

You will find the detailed programme of each meeting hereunder (will be updated continuously).

Ion Channels and Cardiac (Patho-)Physiology
Joint Symposium of the Special Interest Groups on Cardiac Physiology and Ion Channels

9:00 – 9:30 David Beech (Leeds)
PIEZO mechanosensing in cardiovascular health and disease

9:30 – 10:00 Constanze Schmidt (Heidelberg)
Effects of ion channel remodelling in the human heart

10:00 – 10:30 Bo Bentzen (Copenhagen)
Pharmacological inhibition of SK channels in atrial fibrillation

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:15 Pasi Tavi (U of Eastern Finland)
New insights into the development of the cardiomyocyte calcium signaling apparatus

11:15 – 11:45 Serena Zacchigna (Trieste)
The role of mechanical stress in the heart, from cardiac regeneration to cancer therapy

11:45 – 12:15 Thomas Braun (Bad Nauheim)
Reprogramming hearts for regeneration

Symposium of the Special Interest Groups on Comparative Physiology

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome

9:15 – 09:30 Allyson Hindle (University of Nevada)
Title to be announced

09:30 – 09:45 Amélie Crespel (University of Turku)
Title to be announced

09:45-10:00 Philip Matthews (University of British Columbia)
Title to be announced

10:00 – 10:15 Joachim Fandrey (University of Duisburg-Essen)
How do cells sense hypoxia?

10:15 – 10:30 Cormac Taylor (University College Dublin)
Regulation of inflammation by hypoxia

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:15 Neoma T. Boardman (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Title to be announced

11:15 – 11:30 Damien Roussel (University of Lyon) 
Skeletal muscle bioenergetics: a comparative allometric study of mitochondrial coupling efficiency between birds and mammals 

11:30 – 11:45 Samuel Geiseler (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Lactate signalling in the brain – intrinsic adaptations to hypoxia 

11:45 – 12:00 Christian Damsgaard (Aarhus University)
Neural anoxia tolerance from a bird’s eye perspective 

12:00 – 12:15 Conclusion

Important Dates

Call for Plenary and Keynote lectures open

Call for Plenary and Keynote lectures close

Call for Symposia open

Call for Symposia close

Start of Registration and Abstract submission

Abstract submission deadline (VISA application)

Abstract submission deadline

Early registration deadline

Late registration deadline

IUPS 2025

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Congress Organisation

K.I.T. Group GmbH Dresden
Bautzner Str. 117-119
01099 Dresden, Germany

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