February 1-4, 2026, at Sheraton Doha Hotel


18th International Meeting of the European Calcium Society

Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Dr. David Yule

Louis Lasagna, Professor of Experimental Therapeutics
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology,
University of Rochester,
Rochester, NY, USA

 

Dr. Rosario Rizzuto

Full Professor
National Center for Gene Therapy and Drugs based on RNA Technology
Chair, Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Padua
Padova, Italy

Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Head, 4D Cellular Physiology
Senior Group Leader
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Janelia Research Campus
Ashburn, VA, USA

Session Chairs

Dr. Khaled Machaca

Professor and Vice Dean for Research, Innovation and Commercialization
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Andreas Guse

Professor and Director
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
President of the European Calcium Society

Dr. Geert Bultynck

Full Professor
Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Signaling
KU Leuven, Belgium
Secretary-General of the European Calcium Society

Dr. Jan B. Parys

Emeritus professor
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Leuven Kanker Instituut
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

Dr. Christian Grimm

Professor of Molecular Pharmacology
Walther-Straub-Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Munich, Germany

Dr. Mo Trebak

Professor
Vascular Medicine Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Dr. Peter Stathopulos

Associate Professor
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Gary S. Shaw

Professor of Biochemistry
Director, BioCORE
Department of Biochemistry
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada

 

Speakers

Dr. Filip Van Petegem

Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada

Dr. Dipayan Chaudhuri

Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

 

Dr. Osama Harraz

Bloomfield Professor in Cardiovascular Research
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Larner College of Medicine
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT, USA

 

Dr. Harry Pritchard

Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Research Leader Fellow
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
Jeoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre
University of Manchester
Manchester, UK

Dr. Marc Freichel

Professor of Pharmacololy
Institute of Pharmacology
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Germany

Dr. Sandip Patel

Professor of Cell Signaling
Head, Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University College London, UK


 

 

Dr. Michael H. Zhu

McGovern Medical School
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
Houston,TX, USA 

Dr. Robert Blum

Professor
Department of Neurology
University Hospital Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany

Dr. Allen Kaasik

Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Toxicology
Chair of the Department of Pharmacology
Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine
University of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia

Dr. Paola Pizzo

Associate Professor of Pathology
Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Padua
Padova, Italy

Dr. Feng Gu

Researcher
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Center for Experimental Medicine
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology (IBMZ)
Hamburg, Germany

Dr. Carmen J. Williams

Deputy chief
Reproductive Developmental Biology Laboratory 
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 
Bethesda, MA, USA

Dr. Henna Tyyinisma

Professor in Medical Molecular Genetics
Stem Cells and Metabolism Research Program
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland

 

Dr. Irina I. Serysheva

Jesse H. Jones Chair
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Scientific Director, CryoEM Core Facility 
McGovern Medical School
UTHealth Houston
Houston, TX, USA

Dr. Susanna Zierler

Head, Institute of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria
Group Leader, Walther Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
Clinical Research Institute for Inflammation Medicine, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria
 

Dr. Josef Kittler

Professor of Molecular Neurobiology
Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology
University College London (UCL)
London, UK

Dr. Stefan Feske

Jeffrey Bergstein Professor of Medicine
Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pathology
Director, Ion Channel and Immunity Program
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York University, NY, USA

Dr. Murali Prakriya

Magerstadt Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, USA

Dr. Zahid Padamsey

Assistant Professor of Research in Cell and Developmental Biology
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Doha, Qatar

Speakers - Short Talks

Dr. Junaid Kashir

Khalifa University
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Mr. Yu Zhu

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK

Dr. Mélanie Robitaille

The University of Queensland
Queensland, Australia

Dr. Dana E. Al-Ansari

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

Dr. Leonardo Gallegos

Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Genetics of Valladolid (IBGM),
University of Valladolid and Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Valladolid, Spain

Dr. Sun-Hee Woo

Chungnam National University 
South Korea, Korea

Dr. Helene Halkjær Jensen

Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark

Ms. Mehrosh Ahmed

University Libre De Brussels
Brussels, Belgium

Dr. Ophélie Champion

KU Luven
Leuven, Belgium

Ms. Vaidehi Miya

ICMR-National Institute for Research in Reproductive and Child Health (NIRRCH)
Mumbai, India

Dr. Martin Falcke

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) 
Berlin, Germany

Dr. Juliana Corrêa-Velloso

Rutgers University
New Jersey, USA

Mr. Raphaël Nere

University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland

Ms. Siddhi Shetty

University of Rochester
Rochester, New York, United States

Dr. Björn-Philipp Diercks

University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf 
Hamburg, Germany

Dr. Nicolas Demaurex

University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Dalia Alansary

Saarland University
Saarland, Germany

Ms. Rute Isabel Honorio

Rutgers University
New Jersey, USA

Ms. Xiaoxuan Lin

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, USA