Currently confirmed speakers in alphabetical order:
- Grando, Sergei (USA) “Non-neuronal acetylcholine: a historical overview”
- Grau, Veronika (Germany) “Control of ATP-induced IL-1β Secretion by canonical and noncanonical nicotinic agonists”
- Hoover, Donald (USA) “Cholinergic leukocytes in sepsis and at the neuroimmune junction in the spleen”
- Horsnell, William (UK) “Regulation of pulmonary immunity by innate lymphoid cell derived acetylcholine”
- de Jonge, Wouter (The Netherlands) “Acetylcholine secreting T-cells contribute to innate immune driven colitis”
- Kakinuma, Yoshihiko (Japan) “Possibility for the cardiac non-neuronal ACh system to modulate extra-cardiac functions”
- Kawashima, Koichiro (Japan) “Roles of alpha7 nAChRs expressed on antigen presenting cells and CD4+ T cells in regulation of antigen-specific CD4+ T cell differentiation”
- Kummer, Wolfgang (Germany) “Paracrine actions and cotransmitters of acetylcholine in epithelial chemosensory cells”
- Layer, Paul (Germany) “Cholinergic and possible non-enzymatic actions of cholinesterases in bone development”
- Lyukmanova, Ekaterina (Russia) “Human three-finger proteins in defense from epithelial cancer progression”
- Marchot, Pascale (France) “Alpha/beta-hydrolase fold proteins: a structural motif with multiple variations and functions”
- McIntosh, Michael (USA) “Novel peptide antagonists of alpha9 nAChRs and neuropathic pain”
- Mukherjee, Jogeshwar (USA) “Nicotinic radioligands for early diagnosis of neurodegeneration and lung cancer”
- Pavlov, Valentin (USA) “Neuronal and non-neuronal acetylcholine in relation to the inflammatory reflex”
- Prado, Marco (Canada) “The non-neuronal cardiac cholinergic system in health and disease”
- Radek, Katherine (USA) “Cholinergic regulation of skin antimicrobial responses in models of injury and infection”
- Sales, Maria Elena (Argentina) “Metronomic therapy focused on cholinergic receptors to treat cancer. Are nicotinic receptors involved?”
- Skok, Marina (Ukraine) “Intracellular nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: the new data and new challenges”
- Spindel, Eliot (USA) “ Cholinergic signaling and lung development: Overlapping non-neuronal pathways and regulation.”
- Wess, Jurgen (USA) “A positive allosteric modulator promotes insulin secretion by enhancing signaling through beta cell M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors”
- Wessler, Ignaz (Germany) “Cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathways: facts and queries”
Additional oral presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts.