Pre-Congress Symposia
The Organising Commitee is delighted to announce a number of Pre-Congress Symposia on Wednesday (10 September 2025) and Thursday (11 September 2025).
The meetings are FREE to attend, but you need to be registered for IUPS 2025.
To attend the Pre-Congress Symposia you are required to register for the conference.
Pre-Symposium of the Young Physiologists (10 September 2025)
You will find the detailed programme hereunder (will be updated continuously).
We, the Young Physiologists of the German Physiological Society, invite you to our workshop, where we will explore a broad spectrum of the latest methods in physiology – both inside and outside the laboratory. Topics will include omics technologies, fluorescent biosensors, data analysis based on machine learning, AI-based literature research and much more.
Having early-career researchers in mind, we will present cutting-edge methods that are – or can be – applied across different fields of physiology, connecting physiologists with different scientific interests. Besides introducing these approaches, we will also discuss their potential, limitations and challenges, and highlight novel physiological insights gained through their application. The workshop will conclude with a speed-dating session, providing an opportunity for discussions and consultation about your own thoughts and ideas with the speakers. Afterwards we will move on to our social event at a local pub, where you will have plenty of time to showcase your networking skills and connect to your peers.
Whether you are curious about new techniques or looking to strengthen your foundation, this workshop is an excellent opportunity to broaden your experimental and methodical horizon, exchange ideas, foster collaboration, and expand your network in the field of physiology. No matter if you are undergraduate, MD/PhD student, postdoc, or have already established your own group, everyone is welcome.
For further information please contact us at the following e-mail address: Â Yp.iups2025@gmail.com
Confirmed speakers and topics include:
Heike da Silva Cardoso, Augsburg University: AI-based literature research
https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/organisation/bibliothek/kurse-beratung/ki-in-der-literaturrecherche/
Prof. Dr. Lucas Schirmer, Heidelberg University: Next Generation Sequencing/Transcriptomics
schirmerlab.com
Dr. Jennifer Kirwan, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin: Metabolomics
https://www.bihealth.org/de/forschung/wissenschaftliche-infrastruktur/core-units/metabolomik
Prof. Dr. Tommaso Patriarchi, Zurich University: Fluorescent Biosensors
https://www.patriarchilab.com/
Steffen Schneider, PhD: Machine Learning for Data Analysis
https://dynamical-inference.ai/
Preliminary Programme
13:15 – 13:30 Welcome & Introduction
13:30 – 15:00 Session I
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Session II
17:00 – 17:15 Coffee break
17:15 – 18:00 Speed dating: Meet the speakers
from 19:00 Networking & Social at a local pub
The Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings (11 September 2025)
You will find the detailed programme of each meeting hereunder (will be updated continuously).
Ion Channels and Cardiac (Patho-)Physiology
Joint Symposium of the Special Interest Groups on Cardiac Physiology and Ion Channels
9:00 – 9:30 David Beech (Leeds)
PIEZO mechanosensing in cardiovascular health and disease
9:30 – 10:00 Constanze Schmidt (Heidelberg)
Effects of ion channel remodelling in the human heart
10:00 – 10:30 Bo Bentzen (Copenhagen)
Pharmacological inhibition of SK channels in atrial fibrillation
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:15 Pasi Tavi (U of Eastern Finland)
New insights into the development of the cardiomyocyte calcium signaling apparatus
11:15 – 11:45 Serena Zacchigna (Trieste)
The role of mechanical stress in the heart, from cardiac regeneration to cancer therapy
11:45 – 12:15 Thomas Braun (Bad Nauheim)
Reprogramming hearts for regeneration
Symposium of the Special Interest Groups on Comparative Physiology
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 09:30 Allyson Hindle (University of Nevada)
Title to be announced
09:30 Р09:45 Am̩lie Crespel (University of Turku)
Title to be announced
09:45-10:00 Philip Matthews (University of British Columbia)
Title to be announced
10:00 – 10:15 Joachim Fandrey (University of Duisburg-Essen)
How do cells sense hypoxia?
10:15 – 10:30 Cormac Taylor (University College Dublin)
Regulation of inflammation by hypoxia
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:15 Neoma T. Boardman (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Title to be announced
11:15 – 11:30 Damien Roussel (University of Lyon)Â
Skeletal muscle bioenergetics: a comparative allometric study of mitochondrial coupling efficiency between birds and mammalsÂ
11:30 – 11:45 Samuel Geiseler (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Lactate signalling in the brain – intrinsic adaptations to hypoxiaÂ
11:45 – 12:00 Christian Damsgaard (Aarhus University)
Neural anoxia tolerance from a bird’s eye perspectiveÂ
12:00 – 12:15 Conclusion
Symposium of the Special Interest Groups on Renal Physiology
9:00 – 9:02Â Introduction
Emerging technologies in renal physiology and disease: Spatial transcriptomics and imaging.
9:02 – 9:24 Christian Krebs (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany)
Spatial transcriptomics in the kidney.Â
9:24 – 9:46 Alf Honigmann (Technical University Dresden, Germany)
Live-cell super-resolution microscopy of tight junction formation.Â
9:46 – 10:08 Ina Maria Schiessl (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Intravital 2-photon imaging in kidney.Â
10:08 – 10:30 Charlotte Mehlin Sørensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging of the renal vasculature.Â
10:30-10:45 Break
Epithelial Transport and Kidney diseaseÂ
10:45 – 11:07 Jan Loffing (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Effects of calcineurin inhibition on tubular transport and kidney function.
11:07 – 11:29 Annelie Falkevall (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
Lipotoxicity in diabetic kidney disease.Â
11:29 – 11:51 Bjoern Buchholz (University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)
Modulation of cyst growth in polycystic kidney disease.Â
11:51 – 12:13 Volker H. Haase (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA)
Oxygen sensing and mitochondrial metabolism in kidney.Â
12:13 – 12:15 Concluding remarks
Symposium of the Skeletal Muscle Special Interest Group
9:00Â Welcome
9:00 – 9:30 Steen Larsen (Copenhagen University, Denmark)
Title: TBA
9:30 – 10:00 Nicolas Place (Lausanne University, Switzerland)
Title: TBA
10:00 – 10:30 Erin Seifert (Thomas Jefferson University, USA)
Dissecting the drivers of the integrated stress response in a model of primary mitochondrial skeletal myopathy
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:00 (short talk from abstract)
11:00 – 11:15 (short talk from abstract)
11:15 – 11:45 Karsten Hiller (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
Title: TBA
11:45 – 12:15 Abigail Mackey (Copenhagen University, Denmark)
Title: TBA
Symposium of the Respiratory Physiology Special Interest Group
9:00-9:05Â Introduction
9:05 – 9:35 Ben Wielockx (Technical University Dresden)
Title: Oxygen Sensing in Health and Disease: what did we learn by now?
9:35 – 10:05 Johannes Schödel (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen)
Title: Touching base with HIF
10:05 – 10:25 Carina Osterhof (University of Fribourg)
Title:Â Comparative aspects of cellular oxygen sensing using the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
10:25-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:05 Yoshiyuki Henning (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Title:Â Targeting hypoxia-inducible factors to improve retinal metabolism
11:05 – 11:35 Matthias Leisegang (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Title: TBA
11:35 – 12:05 Zhihong Yang (University of Fribourg)
Title: TBA
12:05 – 12:15 Conclusion
Symposium of the Scandinavian Physiological Society Vascular Special Interest Group
Session 1-Vascular Inflammation (9:00-10:30)
9:00 – 9:30 Jaap van Buul (Amsterdam UMC)
Title:Â Vascular Immunology: the endothelial cell as immune modulator
9:30 – 10:00 Sophie Saxton (University of Manchester)
Title:Â Targeting inflammation of adipose tissue to improve vascular function
10:00 – 10:30 Thomas Jepps (University of Copenhagen)
Title:Â Benefits of the anti-inflammatory drug, colchicine, in hypertension
10:30-11:00 Break
Session 2: What is EDH? (11:00-12:15)
11:00 – 11:20 Cris Garland (Oxford University)
Title: Vasomotion, Vasospasm and EDH
11:20 – 11:40 Ingrid Fleming (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Title: Cytochrome P450–derived PUFA mediators – more than endothelium-derived hyperpolarization
11:40 – 12:00 Ulf Simmonsen (University of Aarhus)
Title: TBC
12:00 – 12:15 Joint panel discussion with Chris Garland, Ingrid Fleming and Ulf Simmonsen on EDH. Q&A`s from the audience.
Symposium of the Neuroscience Special Interest Group
Wired for Worry: Circuits of Stress, Anxiety, and Relief
Maria Lindskog, Associate Professor , Dep Medical Cell Biology Uppsala University
Florence Kermen, Associate Professor, Departement of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen
Ipsit Srivastava, PhD, Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medical College
Corette Wierenga, Professor, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Behaviour
Radboud University
