The Physiological Society - PIEZOs Invited Speakers

Meet our invited speakers - click the links below to review their areas of expertise.

  • Dr Sara Baratchi, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia
    Talk title: Decoding the Mechano-Immunological Code Governing Cardiovascular Inflammation
  • Professor Annette Hammes, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
    Talk title: Mechanically gated PIEZO2 currents shape coronary angiogenesis 
    during heart development
  • Professor Osama Harraz, University of Vermont, USA
    Talk title: 
    Brain Endothelial Piezo1: Integrating hemodynamic forces to shape neurovascular coupling
  • Professor Stefan Lechner, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
    Talk title: Mechanotransduction at the nanoscale: Insights from 3D-MINFLUX 
    nanoscopy
  • Professor Irena Levitan, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
    Talk title: Endothelial flow-sensitive Kir channels as a linker between glycocalyx and Piezo1-mediated Ca signaling

  • Professor Lyna Luo, Western University of Health Sciences, USA
    Talk title: A two-step clockwork mechanism opens a proteo-lipidic pore in PIEZO2
  • Dr Eric Mulhall, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
    Talk title: The Molecular Basis of Force Selectivity by PIEZO2
      
  • Dr Medha Pathak, University of California, USA 
    Talk title: Visualising force sensing in situ
  • Professor Julien Vermot, Imperial College London, UK
    Talk title: PIEZO1-mediated mechanohydraulic control of cell volume drives cardiac morphogenesis

  • Professor ShengPeng Wang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
    Talk title: PIEZO1 Regulates Smooth Muscle Cell Plasticity by Integrating Mechanical Stretch with Glycolytic Metabolism 


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