The ECS BOARD
The Board composition changed at the General Assembly Meeting of 2023.
President
Prof. Dr. Andreas H. Guse
President
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
The Calcium Signaling Group, Dept.Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology
Martinistrasse 52
20246 Hamburg
Germany
Tel: +4940741052828
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Andreas H. Guse is Director and Full Professor at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. His research interests focus on Ca2+ signaling by adenine nucleotide 2nd messengers, such as NAAADP or 2’deoxy-ADPR, in immunity and inflammation.
He currently is Oversea Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Chinese Pharmaceutical Science and speaker of the German Collaborative Research Center 1328 ‚ Adenine Nucleotides in Immunity and Inflammation‘.
Secretary-General
Prof. Dr. Geert Bultynck
Secretary-general
Labo Molec. en Cel. Signaaltransmissie
K.U.Leuven
Campus Gasthuisberg O and N1 Herestraat, 49 bus 802
3000 Leuven
Belgium
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Geert Bultynck is a Full Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium. His research interests concentrate on Ca2+ signaling in cell death & survival decisions in relation to health, disease & therapy with particular focus on the role of survival proteins such as Bcl-2-family members. He currently is an Executive Editor of BBA – Mol Cell Res
Treasurer
Prof. Dr. Luc Leybaert
Treasurer
Dept. Basic & Applied Mediacl Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
Ghent University,
Gent, Belgium
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My research is directed to connexin channel function in heart and brain, with a major interest on the cross-points between calcium signaling and connexins. Our work is focused on a better understanding of connexin hemichannels as a calcium entry and ATP release pathway in health & disease, and on strategies to specifically target hemichannels without affecting gap junctions.
Other Board Members
Dr. Martin Bootman
The Open University
Department Life, Health and Chemical Sciences
Walton Hall
Miltin Keynes, MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
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Prof. Dr. Enikö Kallay
Medical University of Vienna, Dept. Pathophysiology and Allergy Research
Waehringer Guertel 18-20
1090 Vienna
Austria
Tel: +43 14040051230, Fax: +43 1404005130
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Enikö Kallay is an Associated Professor at the Medical University of Vienna, leading the group Tumourpathology. Her main research interests concentrate on the role of Ca2+ and vitamin D in colorectal inflammation and cancer, with a specific focus on the role of the calcium sensing receptor (CaSR).
Prof. Dr. Khaled Machaca
Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar
Education City, Qatar Foundation
Doha, Qatar
Tel: +974-4492-8423
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Khaled is Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and the senior associate dean for research, innovation, and commercialization at Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar. His Lab is interested in Ca2+ signaling broadly and store-operated Ca2+ signaling specifically as well as nongenomic progesterone signaling in various physiological and pathological conditions.
Prof. Dr. Barbara A. Niemeyer
Saarland University
Dept. Molecular Biophysics
Molecular Medicine (CIPMM), Bld. 48
D-66421 Homburg/Saar
Germany
Tel: +496841 161 6304
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My group is interested in the regulation of calcium selective ion channels on a molecular and cell physiological and pathophysiological level. Our main focus lies on the regulation of STIM and Orai proteins and the identification of pre – and posttranslational modifications and interacting proteins.
Dr. Paola Pizzo
Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Padua
Via U. Bassi, 58b
35131 Padua, Italy
Tel: + 39 049 8276067
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Website: https://pizzolab.org/
Paola Pizzo’s group is interested in Ca2+ signaling homeostasis and mitochondrial function in Alzheimer’s disease. The lab is also studying cell organelle contacts and associated functions in physiological and pathological condition, with special attention on endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria crosstalk.
Prof. Dr. Natalia Prevarskaya
Laboratory of Cell Physiology
INSERM U1003
University of Lille
Bat. SN3; av. Paul Langevin
59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
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Website: http://www.phycell.univ-lille.fr/
Natalia Prevarskaya is a professor of physiology at the University of Lille. She is a head of the Cell Physiology Unit, Inserm 1003; head of the team certified by the National League against cancer and a member of the Laboratory of Excellence, ICST (Ion Channels Science and Therapeutics) . This team revealed the importance of ion channels and calcium signaling in cancer initiation and progression.
Dr. James W. Putney Jr.
Laboratory of Signal Transduction
National Instute of Environmental Health Sciences - NIH
PO BOX 12233
NC 27709
Research Triangle Park
USA
Tel: +1 989 287 3494
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Jim Putney is Scientist Emeritus at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. His research interests focus on calcium channels, in particular store-operated channels and certain members of the TRPC channel family.
Prof. Dr. Carlos Villalobos
Scientific Director at Institute of Biology and Molecular Genetics (IBGM), University of Valladolid and CSIC, Spain
c/ Sanz y Forés 3, 47003 Valladolid
Spain
Tel: +34 983 18 48 21; Fax: +34 983 18 48 00
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Villalobos is interested in intracellular calcium research for cancer chemoprevention and neuroprotection against ageing and neurodegenerative disorders
