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)Â
Skeletal muscle bioenergetics: a comparative allometric study of mitochondrial coupling efficiency between birds and mammalsÂ
11:30 – 11:45 Samuel Geiseler (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Lactate signalling in the brain – intrinsic adaptations to hypoxiaÂ
11:45 – 12:00 Christian Damsgaard (Aarhus University)
Neural anoxia tolerance from a bird’s eye perspectiveÂ
12:00 – 12:15 Conclusion