X Congreso de la Red Española de Canales Iónicos

  2. Program

Preliminary Program

Time Session Speakers and Details
MONDAY - MAY 25th, 2026
15:00 - 16:00 REGISTRATION  
16:00 - 16:15 OPENING  
16:15 - 17:00 PLENARY LECTURE Niels Voigt (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Buffer Breakdown: When Ca2+ Shocks Absorbers Fail in Atrial Fibrillation.
17:00 - 18:15 SYMPOSIUM 1
Ion Channels and Calcium Homeostasis
  • Chairs: Juan Antonio Rosado & Antonio Felipe
  • Sendoa Tajada (U Valladolid) Ion Channel Remodelling in Colon Cancer via Mitochondrial Transfer and Inhibition of Polyamine Synthesis.
  • María Navarro-Pérez (U. Barcelona) Calcium-mediated Modulation of Kv1.3 at the Immunological Synapse.
  • Juan A. Rosado (U. Extremadura) Analysis of the Heteromerization of Orai1 Variants.
18:15 - 18:55 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS  
19:45 - 21:00 WELCOME RECEPTION  
TUESDAY - MAY 26th, 2026
09:00 - 10:15 SYMPOSIUM 2
Channelopathies & Rare Diseases
  • Chairs: Álvaro Villarroel & Eva Delpón
  • Xavier Altafaj (U Barcelona) Comprehensive Delineation and Precision Medicine of NMDAR-Related Rare Neurodevelop-mental Disorders: from Biophysics to Clinical Trials.
  • Raúl Estévez (U Barcelona). From Astrocyte Signalling to Therapy: Unravelling MLC Pathophysiology through GPRC5B, MLC1, and VRAC.
  • Álvaro Villarroel (IBF-CSIC, Bilbao) Folding Defects During Translation in Rare Diseases.
10:15 - 10:55 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS  
11:00 - 12:00 COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS  
12:00 - 12:50 SYMPOSIUM 3
Structure and Function of Ion Channels
  • Chairs: Mercedes Martín & Carmen Valenzuela
  • Luis Octavio Romero García (U La Laguna) Functional and Structural Basis of TRPC3-mediated Cerebellar Ataxia.
  • Beatriz Herguedas Francés (U Zaragoza) Reshaping the Desensitized State: Subunit and Editing-Dependent Dynamics in AMPA Receptors.
12:50 - 13:30 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS  
13:30 - 13:45 TALK BY 3BRAIN  
14:00 - 15:00 LUNCH  
15:15 - 16:30 SYMPOSIUM 4
Neuronal Ion Channels
  • Chairs: Xavier Gasull & Rosa Señarís
  • Guillaume Sandoz (U Cote d’Azur-CNRS) Switching On and Off Pain with Light.
  • Nuria Comes (U Barcelona-IDIBAPS) Molecular and Functional Insights into Ion Channels Variants in Neuropathic Pain.
  • Jorge Fernández-Trillo (IN-CSIC, Alicante) Piezo2 in Mecha-nical Pain: Insights from in vivo Recordings of Nociceptors.
16:30 - 17:10 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS  
17:10 - 17:55 PLENARY LECTURE José Jalife (CNIC, Madrid)
Rescuing the Heart from the Tornadoes of Sudden Cardiac Death.
20:30 - 22:30 GALA DINNER  
WEDNESDAY - MAY 27th, 2026
09:30 - 10:15 PLENARY LECTURE Thomas Voets (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Small Molecule TRP Channel Modulators for the Treatment of Pain and Neurological Disorders.
10:15 - 11:30 SYMPOSIUM 5
Ion Channel Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  • Chairs: Antonio R. Artalejo & Victoria Moreno
  • Marta Gutiérrez-Rodríguez (IQM-CSIC) Tailoring Pharmacological and Fluorescent Probes to Study Kv Channelosomes.
  • Ricardo Caballero (UCM) New Mechanisms of Drug-induced Modulation of Cardiac Ion Currents: Changing Old Paradigms.
  • Victoria Moreno (CIPF, Valencia) Ion channels for Neuronal Repair.
11:30 - 12:00 COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS  
12:00 - 12:40 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS  
12:40 - 12:55 TALK BY NANION Nicoletta Murciano (NANION)
High-throughput automated patch clamp of native lysosomes for early drug discovery. 
12:55 - 13:40 PLENARY LECTURE Antonio Ferrer-Montiel (IDIBE-UMH, Elche)
TRP Channels Involved in Migraine Sex Dimorphism. 
13:40 - 13:55 CLOSING CEREMONY & PRIZES  
14:00 - 15:00 LUNCH & FAREWELL