September 2024
π° Pre-print: Wang K, Nilsson M, Angelini M, Olcese R, Elinder F, Pantazis A: A rich conformational palette underlies human CaV2.1-channel availability. bioRxiv [Preprint] 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.27.615501
Link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.27.615501v1
πPeople: Michelle Nilsson and Catherine Wang are leaving the lab. Thank you for the many years of wonderful collaboration. We will miss you dearly, and wish you all the best!
π° Publication: Nilsson M, Wang K, Mínguez-Viñas T, Angelini M, Berglund S, Olcese R, Pantazis A. Voltage-dependent G-protein regulation of CaV2.2 (N-type) channels.Sci Adv. 2024 Sep 11. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp6665.
Link:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp6665
X-plainer: https://x.com/ntoniosPantazis/status/1834906836153037155
πConference:We attended the first ever Linköping Ion Channel Meeting!! We enjoyed 1,5 intense days about our favorite class of proteins! Antonios helped organize it and gave a talk. Catherine, Michelle, Serena and Suheda presented posters.
August 2024
π¬ Workshop: Serena Pozzi attended the Cell Physiology Workshop in Liverpool, UK: the successor of the legendary Plymouth Microelectrode Techniques workshop! We’re grateful to the LiU Board of PhD studies for the financial support.
July 2024
π Award: Alumna Dr. Teresa Mínguez-Viñas was awarded the Early Investigator Prize 2023 (Neuroscience category) by the Physiological Society, for her “outstanding research paper” on KCNA2 epilepsy-associated variants!
June 2024
π People: Charmaine Ko is joining us as summer student! Supported by a Från Student Till Docent studentship, she will study epilepsy-associated variants of KCNA2.
π° Pre-print: Nilsson M, Wang K, Mínguez-Viñas T, Angelini M, Berglund S, Olcese R, Pantazis A: Electrical and G-protein Regulation of CaV2.2 (N-type) Channels. bioRxiv [Preprint] 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.29.600263
Link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.29.600263v1
April 2024
ππ Conference & Award: Everyone (minus Antonios, who just started his parental leave) attended the annual Neuroretreat in beautiful Vadstena. Congratulations to Serena for winning best poster prize!
March 2024
π People: Dr. Peixin Boon is joining us as postdoc. She graduated from the Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland.
π People: Sümeyye Süheda YaΕarbaΕ (Δ°zmir Institute of Technology, Türkiye) is joining us as research assistant
π Graduation: Michelle Nilsson defended her thesis and is now a PhD! Henry Colecraft (Columbia University) served as opponent. Mia Lindskog (Uppsala Univ.), H. Peter Larsson (LiU) and Martin Hallbeck (LiU) were in the thesis committee.
February 2024
π People: Orgena Dano is joining us for her MSc project
π π Conference & Award: We all went to the Biophysical Society meeting, in Philadelphia, PA! Catherine and Serena gave talks. Michelle, Amaya and Serena presented posters. Antonios presented a poster from our collaboration with the Taglialatela group, and there was also work from our collaboration with the Olcese group. Michelle and Amaya received travel awards!
January 2024
π π Conference & Award: Serena and Antonios went to the Worldwide Sodium Channel Conference, in Grindelwald, Switzerland! Serena gave a talk, presented a poster, and received a travel award!
π° Funding: Antonios is co-applicant in a grant by Erik Smedler (Univ. of Gothenburg) by the Program for Academic Leaders in Life Science (PALS).