I cherish the warm memories from our #WSCC26 meeting in Grindelwald 🚠 Thanks to all participants for creating such an inspiring atmosphere, and especially the dream team of co-organizers 👏

At #LS2AM in Zürich, proteomics session, with colleagues from @unifr.bsky.social

#WSCC26 has started with some amazing work ! Excited for more presentations from tomorrow!

We’re hiring! 🚀 Our group @cshlpress.bsky.social has an opening for a postdoctoral fellow in structural biology, focusing on ion channels and receptors in neurotransmission and cancer immunology. Come join us and pursue unique, cross-disciplinary science. jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spr...

Time to sign up! Registration for the joint FEBS/EMBO course on ion channels and transporters in Erice, Italy (May 13-19th 2026) is now open: meetings.embo.org/event/26-ion... Please share and repost.

Excited to share our preprint: “Mapping the Functional Landscape of KCNQ1 to Define Ion Channel Mechanisms and Arrhythmia Risk!” We performed ~50,000 experimental measurements of KCNQ1 variants. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.25341924v1

✨ December 2025 #ImageOfTheMonth ✨ Whole rat hearts cleared with iDISCO reveal sympathetic innervation (orange) and vascularization (green). 💛💚 Work by S. Bertrand & A. Bonilla (INCIA) with S. Martin & I. Brunet (CIRB), imaged by J. Teillon (BIC). #Microscopy #iDISCO #BICBordeaux

Are you working on #cellular #cross-talk in the #heart? Looking for an outlet for your work? Look no further! Molly O Reillyy, Chris 'O Shea and I are editing an edition of @jphysiol.bsky.social Deadline 6th Jan! #CardioSky physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Final Call! 🫀 Boost your cardiac research career! Scientific Exchange Grants from the WG Cellular Cardiac Electrophysiology offer €2,500 for a 1-month stay in a European lab. Great chance to learn new skills + collaborate internationally. Apply by 8 Dec 2025 👉 escardio.org/Research/Res...

To all trainees interested in channels and transporters: the joint FEBS/EMBO course will go ahead in Erice, Italy from May 13-19 2026: network.febs.org/posts/new-jo... Further details to come soon. Please share and repost.

📝 A new Nature study from Lippincott-Schwartz group at Howard Hughes Medical Institute reveals that secretome mRNAs are translated at specialized sites. 🔎 This uncovers a new spatial layer in how cells make secreted proteins with broad implications. 📖 Read more: https://go.nature.com/43zRK0t

🚨🆕🧪🔬on 💓🕒 Delisle et al. 😉show the circadian clock gene BMAL1 drives sex-specific daily patterns in cardiac ion channels ⚡️❤️‍🔥 in 🐭, shaping when arrhythmias may strike in males vs females 🧠➡️❤️ #Circadian #Physiology #Heart #Arrhythmia #Sex #Science #Cardiosky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The review process will be overseen by JGP Associate Editors Teresa Giraldez (@giraldezt.bsky.social) and Jeanne Nerbonne, with Guest Editor and subject experts Angelika Lampert (@lampertlab.bsky.social), Hugues Abriel, and Rajesh Khanna (@khannalabuf.bsky.social) 👉 rupress.org/jgp/pages/ca...

Required reading for cell biologists to get a sense of basic statistical principles! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

⏰ Abstract deadline tomorrow! Join us in Grindelwald, Feb 4–6, 2026 Worldwide Sodium Channel Conference! Robert Stewart (Harvard) talks on Nav1.8 inhibition & new Nav blockers for pain 💥Accepted abstracts → special issue @jgp.org👉 sodiumchannelconference2026.org #WSCC26 #SodiumChannels #PainResearch

🎙️ Carol Ann Remme (Amsterdam UMC) joins #WSCC26 (Feb 4–6, 2026, Grindelwald, CH) to talk about cardiac sodium channels ❤️ and their role in cardiac physiology & disease. 🧠 Abstracts due Nov 2 🔗 sodiumchannelconference2026.org/WELCOME/ #NaV #ionchannels #cardiacphysiology #scienceconference

🎙️ José Ángel Aibar, President of the Dravet Syndrome Foundation, joins #WSCC26 (Feb 4–6, 2026, Grindelwald 🇨🇭) to talk about advancing collaboration & discovery in Dravet syndrome. 🧠 Abstracts due Nov 2 – all published in a JGP special issue! 🔗 sodiumchannelconference2026.org/WELCOME/

Voltage-gated sodium channels: Mechanisms, disease, and a growing research community. Hugues Abriel and Angelika Lampert (@lampertlab.bsky.social) introduce the Special Issue (rupress.org/jgp/search-r...) illustrating the richness and continuing momentum of this field. rupress.org/jgp/article/...

Over a third of mothers in STEMM face maternity bias. It’s not “personal choice.” It’s systemic. Join Dr Isabel Torres on 22 Oct as we unpack how bias holds mothers back in science & what needs to change. Register now🔗 https://www.mothersinscience.com/scimomchats #BreakTheBiasSTEMM

Periodic reminder that the fluorescent compound in mammalian cell culture media, such as DMEM, is riboflavin (not phenol red)

#SpatialOmics #MyocardialInfarction #MolecularCartography 100-gene #SeqIF 12-marker #DeepVisualProteomics 4/24/49/96 h postMI🐭 Anti-vWF ⏬Mɸ at endocardial (not epicardial/core/border zone) ⏫infarct wall thinning ⏬🫀adaptation by 2 wk @natcardiovascres.nature.com 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Thanks to @snsf.ch, we are hiring two PhD students to investigate frontier topics in lipid biology using a combination of MD simulations and experiments. Preferred starting date: ASAP. Fribourg - and Switzerland - are quite nice, for both work and private life! Please spread the word!

A cage-like network of extracellular matrix proteins anchors platelet-producing cells in the bone marrow, preventing them from entering the bloodstream too early. buff.ly/Fz6aJvm

This Special Issue rupress.org/jgp/search-r... brings together a collection of studies that exemplify the multidimensional progress in physiology, pharmacology, & structure-function analysis of voltage-gated sodium channels. Editorial by Abriel & @lampertlab.bsky.social: rupress.org/jgp/article/...

🪄The deadline for the abstract submission #WSCC26 was extended until the 2nd November 2025

Do not miss the opportunity to submit your abstract for #WSCC26 🚠 💡 Submit your abstracts here: lnkd.in/eDhPUVKd 💻 More information about the event: lnkd.in/eJw9pfMz

Announcing the 2025 Caregiver Travel Grant recipients! 10 incredible #mothersinSTEMM have been awarded €250 to support caregiving while attending conferences. Thank you to our amazing community for making this possible! Read more 👉 www.mothersinscience.com/caregiver-tr... #WomenInSTEM

🚨 Save the date! LS2 Annual Meeting 2026: 📍 Zürich | 🗓 Feb 11–12 (YSS: Feb 10) Join us for keynotes by Sarah-Maria Fendt, Heidi McBride & Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz + 11 symposia, poster session, & networking. 🔗 Abstracts due Nov 9 🔗 Register by Jan 11, 2026: annual-meeting.ls2.ch/2026/registr...

EpIC News!  The first in-person EpIC meeting: "Emerging Research on Ion Channels in Health and Disease." 19-20 February 2026 UC Davis I can't attend myself, but this meeting organized by some of my favourite #ionchannels scientists will be 🔥🔥🔥 #SGP sgp-epic-seminars.com/epic2026

If you teach students, you should check out our Education Materials Library! Download lesson plans and other teaching resources for neuroscience, cell biology, and immunology - no library card needed! #OpenScienceWeek alleninstitute.org/materials-li...

🌟 Postdocs – want to become a PI? Apply for PIs of Tomorrow 2026 at the LS2 Annual Meeting (Feb 11–12, Zurich). Prizes, feedback, and networking: annual-meeting.ls2.ch/2026/special... Deadline: 5 Oct 2025 🔗 form.jotform.com/211792813615... #Career #PIsOfTomorrow #Postdoc

After years in making, I am glad to be able to share our attempt on establishing a framework for combined functional and computational assessment of variant pathogenicity in the sodium leak channel NALCN: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SCN2A loss is strongly linked to neurodevelopmental delays and, at times, seizure. In an amazing collaboration with @nadavahituv.bsky.social, led by Serena Tamura, Andrew Nelson, and Perry Spratt, we leveraged CRISPR activator approaches to rescue this loss. rdcu.be/eGU0W

🚨🧠🔬 A major breakthrough in molecular neuroscience: I am excited to share a new story from our lab, published in accelerated format today by @nature.com: "Delta-type glutamate receptors are ligand-gated ion channels" Read more here (free article link): rdcu.be/eGIKz

Last week, ROOTS deputy speaker Johannes Müller attended the annual conference of the Ukrainian History Global Initiative in #Kyiv. He took the opportunity to meet colleagues from Ukrainian institutions in order to plan future research projects...(1/2) 🏺#archaeology

‼️ Are you ready to make an impact, connect across disciplines, and support science at a national level? Apply until 26.10.2025 to become our Section Board member: infols2.typeform.com/to/JPMjz7CR We especially encourage ECRs and female scientists to apply. More info: www.ls2.ch/get-involved

Investigating the Role of the I–II Linker in Nav1.5 Channel Function. New study from Emily Wagner, Jonathan Silva and colleagues @washuengineers.bsky.social: rupress.org/jgp/article/... #Biophysics #Pathophysiology #IonChannels

Adriano Senatore @utoronto.ca and colleagues explore the evolutionary origins of the sodium leak channel NALCN and its ancillary subunits FAM155/Mid1, UNC79, and UNC80. rupress.org/jgp/article/... #Evolution #IonChannels

The Cardiovascular Research Cluster (CVRC), will also present a variety of research and activities. You can find us at UniS, floor -1, room A-119 and hallway Saturday, September 6 at 16:00h #CVRCBern

📝Check out our review “Creating an atlas of variant effects to resolve variants of uncertain significance and guide cardiovascular medicine”, out in @natrevcardiol.nature.com. We review the use of Multiplexed Assays of Variant Effect and variant effect predictors in cardiovascular disease.

Am Sa, 6.9.25 öffnet @unibe.ch ihre Türen – Forschung live erleben! Wir sind auch dort, mit Mikroskopen, Pflanzen und Origami-Mikroskopen zum selber basteln - im Hauptgebäude im 2. Stock, Raum 206/208 - mein Vortrag um 17.00 und um 20.30 im Raum 205 🌾🔬🌵 👉 unibe.ch/ndf #ndfunibern

🌟 Postdocs – want to become a PI? Apply for PIs of Tomorrow 2026 at the LS2 Annual Meeting (Feb 11–12, Zurich). Prizes, feedback, and networking: annual-meeting.ls2.ch/2026/special... Deadline: 5 Oct 2025 🔗 form.jotform.com/211792813615... #Career #PIsOfTomorrow #Postdoc

Back in London and back at my alma mater – @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social 💙 Big thanks to Prof. Mustafa Djamgoz and Prof. Peter Nixon for the warm welcome & continued support. Visiting the old lab brought back so many memories 🔬 Bonus: caught up with former colleague Dr. Jianfeng Yu 😊 #Gratitude

2nd #WSCC26 will take place in Grindelwald (Switzerland) 🚠 from 4th to 6th of February, 2026. 🌍 Join @lampertlab.bsky.social , @antoniospantazis.bsky.social, @khannalabuf.bsky.social, and others. 💡 Submit abstracts by the 26th of September, 2025: lnkd.in/eDhPUVKd 💻 More info: lnkd.in/eJw9pfMz

Hats off to lead author Tony Lim who drove this project from writing the fellowship application, to establishing new techniques in the lab. We developed a reversible self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) system that encodes innate immune suppression directly within saRNA. Next step, in vivo!

📣 #CallForPapers 📣 on the topic of the inaugural in-person Electrophysiology & Ion Channel (EpIC) meeting, “Emerging Research on Ion Channels in Health & Disease” – w/ Guest Editors Jelena Baranovic, Osama Harraz, Conor McClenaghan, & Lejla Zubcevic 👉 rupress.org/JGP/pages/ca...

👥 Speed Mentoring with cardiology icons at RISE @ ESC Congress 2025! 🌍 Small-group chats with world-class mentors 💬 Ask questions, gain insight, grow your network 🚀 Learn how to lead in cardiology Register now: rise.womenasone.org #LetsRISE2025 #ESCCongress #WCCardio #CardioSky

We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc... PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...