6th annual meeting of the IRN iGPCRnet 23-25 november Liège (Belgium)
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Abstract submission deadline the 3rd july 2026
Registration deadline 17th july 2026
Preliminary Program – Liège 2026
Day 1 – Monday, 23rd of November 2026
13:00 Registration and Welcome
13:45 Opening Ceremony
Session 1: Orphan & Atypical GPCRs
14:00 Kirill Martemyanov (Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA)
14:45 Sorin Tunaru (Institute of Biochemistry, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)
15:10 Gunnar Schulte (Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
15:35 Short Talk selected from abstracts
15:50 Short Talk selected from abstracts
16:05 Coffee Break
Session 2: Chemokine GPCRs
16:30 Brian Volkman (Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
17:15 Martine Smit (Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
17:40 Bassam Janji (Department of Cancer Research, Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), Luxembourg)
18:05 Mette Rosenkilde (Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark)
18:30 Short Talk selected from abstracts
18:45 Short Talk selected from abstracts
19:00 Poster session / Walking Dinner
Day 2 – Tuesday, 24th of November 2026
Session 3: The Inner Voice of GPCRs
09:00 Evi Kostenis (Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany)
09:45 Stefan Schulz (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany)
10:10 Daniel Legler (Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology Thurgau, University of Konstanz, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland)
10:35 Short Talk selected from abstracts
10:50 Coffee Break
11:15 Andreas Bock (University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany)
11:40 Claudia Stäubert (Rudolf-Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany)
12:05 Miriam Stoeber (Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland)
12:30 Short Talk selected from abstracts
12:45 Lunch Buffet – Poster Session – Discussion
Session 4: Tuning GPCR Activity in Health and Disease
14:20 Ben Jones (Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, UK)
14:45 Philippe Rondard (Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle (IGF), CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France)
15:10 Ya-Xiong TAO (Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn, USA)
15:35 Short Talk selected from abstracts
15:50 Short Talk selected from abstracts
16:05 Coffee Break
Session 5: GPCR Forum
16:30 Keynote 1
16:55 Keynote 2
17:20 Short Talk selected from abstracts
17:35 Short Talk selected from abstracts
17:50 Poster Session - Discussion
19:00 Transfer to Social Event
Day 3 – Wednesday, 25th of November 2026
Session 6: AI and GPCR
08:45 Jens Carlsson (Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)
09:30 Xavier Deupi (Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland)
09:55 Peter Kolb (Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany)
10:20 Hugo Gutierrez de Teran (Research Center in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (CINN/CSIC) Asturias, Spain)
10:45 Short Talk selected from abstracts
11:00 Coffee Break
Session 7: Database & Innovative Tools
11:20 Christel Menet (Confotherapeutics, Belgium)
11:50 Charlotte Crauwels (Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium)
12:15 David Gloriam (Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark)
13:00 Closing Ceremony – Awards & Prizes
