University of Helsinki

Program

The program with the time tables is found here.

Confirmed speakers and tentative titles:

David J. Beech, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK:
"Integration of GPCRs, lipids and TRPC channels"

Per-Olof Berggren, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden:
"In vivo evaluation of pancreatic beta cell signal-transduction"

Vincenzo Di Marzo, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry - CNR. Pozzuoli, Italy:
"Endocannabinoid and phytocannabinoid regulation of TRP-channels"

Michael A. Frohman, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA:
"Phospholipase D (PLD) regulation and targets"

Eric Honoré, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France:
"Polycystin-1 and -2 dosage regulates pressure sensing"

Paul A. Insel, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA:
"Caveolae and lipid rafts in GPCR signaling"

Ken Iwatsuki, Institute of Life Sciences, Ajinomoto CO., INC., Kawasaki, Japan:
"Taste receptors in the gastrointestinal tract"

Sue C. Kinnamon, Colorado State University, Aurora, CO, USA:
"GPCR signaling in taste cells"

Ari Koivisto, OrionPharma Corporation, Turku, Finland:
"Sustained TRPA1 activation"

Jarmo T. Laitinen, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland:
"Phosphatases and hydrolases as guardians of lipid-GPCR signaling”

Stephen M. Lanier, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA:
"Group II activators of G-protein signaling"

Graeme Milligan, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK:
"Fatty acid responsive GPCRs"

Shmuel Muallem, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA:
"TRPC channels interacting protein"

Kid Törnquist, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland:
"Sphingosine metabolite signaling in Ca²⁺ regulation"

Karl Åkerman, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland:
"Introduction to GPCR and TRPC channel signalling" &
"TRPC channels in differentiating neuronal stem cells"