!!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.
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The symposium is supported by Academia Europaea.
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__More information is available [here|http://usn.org.ua/conf15].__
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!__PROGRAM__
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__1 day, Thursday, September 24,
Conference Hall__
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*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
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__2 day, Friday, September 25,
Conference Hall__
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''__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)
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__3 day, Saturday, September 26,
Conference Hall__
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''__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''
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[Final Program|ICTB_Symposium_Program.pdf]
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__The Venue__

The symposium will be held in Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology: 4 Bogomoletz St., Kyiv, Ukraine
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__Registration__

Registration is free for all participants. Special invitation is required for dinner and boat trip.
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