Spring Meeting 2022

Date: 
Friday, April 29, 2022 - 10:00
Keynote speaker: 
Dr. Ralph Jockers (Institut Cochin, INSERM, Paris)
Hosted by: 
Prof. Dr. Julien Hanson
University of Liège
Belgium
With support of: 
Venue: 
Palace of the Academies “Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium “Rubens room”
Hertogstraat 1 Rue Ducale
1000 Brussels
Program: 

09.15-10.00 Welcome with coffee and tea

Keynote lecture

10.00-11.00 Beyond the consensus G protein coupling profile of GPCRs: towards physiology and system bias
Ralf Jockers (Institut Cochin, INSERM, Paris)

Oral communications (morning session)

11.00-11.15 Role of macro-molecules in activating human Mas-related G protein-coupled receptor D: allosteric/orthosteric ligand or mechano-sensitive?
Rohit Arora, Joni Heymans, Nikola Papovic, Kenny M. Van Theemsche, Alain J Labro (UGhent & UAntwerp)

11.15-11.30 A non-canonical effect of BAPTA inhibits glycolysis, resulting in cell death in Mcl-1-dependent cancers
Sneyers F., Kerkhofs M., Welkenhuyzen K., Ghesquière B., Dewerchin, M., Bootman M.D., Bultynck G (KULeuven)

11.30-11.45 Changes in irisin (FNDC5) and myostatin expression in doxorubicin-treated C2C12 myotubes
Van Asbroeck Birgit, Dombrecht Dorien, Van Craenenbroeck Emeline, Guns Pieter-Jan, Van Breda Eric (UAntwerp)

11.45-12.00 Early detection of chemotherapy induced cardiotoxicity
Dustin Krüger, Matthias Bosman, Constantijn Franssen, Pieter-Jan Guns (UAntwerp)

12.00-12.15 Glucose inhibits glucagon secretion of mice with α-cell-specific deletion of KATP channels
Manjitha Parambath, Bao-Khanh Lai, Heeyoung Chae, Eva Gatineau, Susumu Seino, Patrick Gilon (UCL & Kobe Univ Japan)

12.15-12.30 TRPM3 – novel target to alleviate chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathic pain (CIPNP)
Vincenzo Davide Aloi, Silvia Pinto, Rita van Bree, Katrien Luyten, Thomas Voets, Joris Vriens (KULeuven)
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12.15 – 13.00 Lunch and Posters

Posters:
• Neuromorphic circuits for undergraduate neurophysiology courses
Sébastien Szczepanski, Maëlle Limpens, Alexandre Legrand, Anne-Emilie Declèves, Alexandra Tassin (UMons)
• Adiponectin pathway in a murine model of disuse muscle atrophy: an in vivo study
Shlyonsky V, Dupuis F, de Prelle B, Gall D (ULB)

Oral communications (afternoon session)

13.15-13.30 The important role of PAR2 in early implantation processes
Martina Ciprietti, Joris Vriens (KULeuven)

13.30-13.45 TRPV2 is involved in trophoblast branching of the mouse placenta
Katrien De Clercq, V. Perez-Garcia, J. Lopez-Tello, E. Van Den Broek, T. Voets, A. Sferruzzi-Perri, J. Vriens (KULeuven & UCambridge UK)

13.45-14.00 Glycemic control in TRPM4 knockout mice during pregnancy
Caroline Wuyts, Koenraad Philippaert, Silvia Pinto, Caroline Simoens, Rudi Vennekens (KULeuven)

14.00-14.15 Studying endometrial dysfunction in PCOS with a prenatally androgenized mouse model
Luyckx L, Virtanen N, Arffman R, Prunskaite-Hyyryläinen R, Piltonen T, Vriens J (KULeuven)

14.15-14.30 Effect of a rare mutation of the Nav1.4 channel, L1436P, on its biophysical properties
L. Dubois, Y. Sun, K. Jacquerie, B. Lakaye, FC Wang, V.Seutin (ULiège)

14.30-14.45 Cardiomyocyte differentiation from iPS cells is delayed following knockout of Bcl-2
Tim Vervliet (KULeuven)

14.45 – 15.15 Coffee – Tea
Closing lecture

15.15-16.15 TRPM3 – a hot channel on steroids
Thomas Voets (KULeuven)

Contact

Belgian Society of Physiology and Pharmacology
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