5th annual meeting of the IRN iGPCRnet in Barcelona - 7-9th July 2025
We are please to announce you that the next annual meeting of the IRN iGPCRnet will be held in Barcelona from the 7th to the 9th of July 2025.
The meeting will take place at University of Barcelona, University Zone, Faculty of pharmacy.
For the registration please click here
- If you wish to apply for an oral presentation the deadline for registration and abstract submission is May 9th.
- If you intend to attend without presenting data or poster presentation, the deadline for registration is May 30th.
MEETING PROGRAMME
July 7th
14.00h |
Registration and Welcome |
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Session 1 |
14.30h |
Plenary1 Francisco Ciruela (University of Barcelona) "In vivo GPCR Photopharmacology: Towards Therapeutics?" |
15.30 |
Abstract1 Selected from abstracts |
15.45 |
Abstract2 Selected from abstracts |
16.00 |
Coffee |
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Session 2 |
16.30 |
Keynote1 Meritxell Canals (University of Nottingham) “Delineating molecular and cellular determinants of mu-opioid receptor – beta-arrestin2 interactions” |
17.15 |
Oral 1 Mikel Garcia Marcos (Boston University) “The secret life of G proteins” |
17.35 |
Abstract3 Selected from abstracts |
17.50 |
Abstract4 Selected from abstracts |
18.05-21.00 |
Poster session and dinner |
July 8th |
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Session 3 |
9.00 |
Keynote2 Luigi Bellocchio (Neurocentre Magendie,INSERM, Bordeaux) "Mitochondrial GPCR signaling as a potential therapeutic target." |
9.45 |
Oral 2 Anna Aragay (Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona) "Gq regulation of organelle contacts and dynamics". |
10.05 |
Abstract5 Selected from abstracts |
10.20 |
Abstract6 Selected from abstracts |
10.35-11.00 |
Coffee |
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Session 4 |
11.00 |
Keynote3 Dominik Schelshorn (Neurosterix) "Beyond Orthosteric Binding in GPCR Research: Innovative Assays for Allosteric Modulator Drug Discovery" |
11.45 |
Oral 3 Elodie Dupuis (Revvity) "New fluorescent detection modalities to investigate GPCRs signaling" |
12.05 |
Oral 4 Martha Sommer (Isar Bioscience) "An Arresting Perspective on GPCR Signal Transduction" |
12.25 |
Oral 5 Maria Majellaro (Celtarys) “A Game-Changing Technology to Illuminate GPCR Pharmacology: Accelerating Hit Discovery and Optimization” |
12.45-13.15 |
Industrial short talks (sponsors) |
13.15-15.00 |
poster session + lunch |
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Session 5 |
15.00h |
Keynote4 Rob Leurs (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) “Photopharmacology: towards new tools to unravel GPCR pharmacology”. |
15.45 |
Abstract7 Selected from abstracts |
16.00 |
Abstract8 Selected from abstracts |
16.15 |
Abstract9 Selected from abstracts |
16.30 |
Coffee |
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Session 6 |
17.00 |
Keynote5 Federico Mayor (Institute for Molecular Biology (IUBM)) “GRK2 interactomes in cellular signalling and disease” |
17.45 |
Abstract10 Selected from abstracts |
18.00 |
Abstract11 Selected from abstracts |
18:15 |
Abstract12 Selected from abstracts |
18.30-21.00 |
Assembly, dinner, network |
July 9th |
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Session 7 |
9.00 |
Keynote6 Jörg Standfuss (Paul Scherrer Institute) "Tracking ligand-GPCR interaction dynamics by time-resolved serial crystallography" |
9.45 |
Oral 6 Guillaume Lebon (Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle) "Conformational; diversity on class C GPCR positive allosteric modulation." |
10.05 |
Abstract13 Selected from abstracts |
10.20 |
Abstract14 Selected from abstracts |
10.35-11:00 |
Coffee |
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Session 8 |
11.00 |
Abstract15 Selected from abstracts |
11:15 |
Abstract16 Selected from abstracts |
11:30 |
Plenary2 Ferdinando Nicoletti (Sapienza University, Rome) |
12.30 |
Conclusion, prizes |
12.45 |
End of meeting |
Thank you to the sponsors for their support :