Past Conferences
IGJC 2019
July 27 – 31, 2019
Victoria, BC, Canada
Link to Digital Program
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N.B. Gilula Star Award Winners:
Cherie Brown, York University
“Sensorimotor behavior in the Connexin-35B (CX35B) Knock-out Zebrafish (Danio Rerio)”
Erin Mulkearns-Hubert, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
“Development of CX46 targeting strategy for cancer stem cells”
Juan Sanchez-Aria, University of Victoria
“Pannexin 1 regulates neuronal networks and dendritic spine formation in cortical networks”
Marta Varela-Eirin, INIBIC
“Connexin43 – Positive exosomes efficiently induce cellular senescence via P53/P16 (INK4A) in target cells contributing to osteoarthritis progression”
IGJC 2017
July 29 – August 2, 2017
Glasgow, Scotland
Oral Presentation Awards:
Isola Brown, Michigan State University
“Innovating studies on modulating hemichannel activity in the enteric nervous system”
Cherie Brown, York University
“Studies on the transport of Connexin36 in neuronal cells”
Y-hsin Chiu, University of Virginia
“Work on the activation of pannexin 1 channels”
Stephanie Fowler, University of Ottawa
“Who provided a novel insight for connexin32 in mitochondrial function”
Poster Prizes, sponsored by Portland Press and the British Pharmacology Society:
Julia Abitbol, University of Western Ontario
“Severe loss-of-Connexin 43 function leads to hearing loss in a mutant mouse model of oculodentodigital dysplasia”
Jonathan Boucher, CNRS ERL 7368
“Pannexin-1 modulates in vitro lymphanigiogenesis”
Miranda Good, University of Virginia
“Spironolactone can act on Pannexin 1 channels in smooth muscle cells to regulate vasoconstriction and blood pressure”
Tinneke Delvaeye, Ghent University
“A role for Connexin 43 hemichannels in sepsis-induced renal vascular permeability”
IGJC 2015
March 28 – April 2, 2015
Valparaiso, Chile
Link to Abstract Book
IGJC 2013
July 13 – 18, 2013
Charleston, South Carolina, USA