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.