Abstracts selected for oral presentation

Asher-Hess competition - Abstract submission
Deadline for abstract submission: August 1, 2009
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14:15 - 14:30
Nadine Hardel1), Mohammed Akaaboune2), Isabel Martinez-Pena y Valenzuela2), Sarah Wakefield1), Raphael Thurnheer3) and Hans Rudolf Brenner1)
1) Institute of Physiology, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2) Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, USA and 3) Departments of Anesthesia and Biomedicine, Basel University Hospital, Switzerland
A NOVEL FUNCTION OF neuregulin/ErbB SIGNALING IN POSTSYNAPTIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR DYNAMICS AND IN MODULATING THE EFFICIENCY OF IMPULSE TRANSMISSION AT THE NMJ


14:30 - 14:45
U. De Marchi, N. Demaurex
Department of Cell Physiology & Metabolism, University of Geneva, Switzerland
UCP3 IS NOT A MITOCHONDRIAL Ca2+  UNIPORTER BUT ALTERS THE ACTIVITY OF SERCA


14:45 - 15:00
A. Pfenniger (1*), J-P Derouette (1*), V. Verma (2), X. Lin (2), B. Foglia (1), W. Coombs (3), I. Roth (1), N. Satta (5), S. Dunoyer-Geindre (5), P. Sorgen (4), S. Taffet (3), M. Delmar (2) and B.R. Kwak (1)
Cardiology, Medicine, Univ of Geneva; (2) Cardiovascular Medicine, Univ of Michigan, AnnArbor MI, USA; (3) Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical Univ, Syracuse NY, USA; (4) Molecular Biology, UNMC, Omaha NE, USA; (5) Hemostasis, Medicine, Univ of Geneva
THE GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN Cx37 INTERACTS WITH eNOS IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS

15:00 - 15:15
Katarzyna J. Nytko (1), Nobuyo Maeda (2), Roland H. Wenger (1) and Daniel P. Stiehl (1)
Institute of Physiology and Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland, (2) Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
REGULATION OF PHD OXYGEN-SENSING ACTIVITY BY ANTIOXIDANTS

15:15 - 15:30
S. Willadt (1), M. Canepari (1), D. Zecevic (2), K. Vogt (1)
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland; (2) Dep. of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING OF INHIBITORY SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS

15:30 - 15:45
Nicolò Salvarani, Christian Rosker, Stephan Rohr
Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
HETEROCELLULAR CROSSTALK BETWEEN MYOFIBROBLASTS AND CARDIOMYOCYTES: ARRHYTHMOGENIC EFFECTS OF TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-BETA1  

15:45 - 16:00
Rajapakse AG, Carvas JM, Ming X-F, Yang Z
Division of Physiology, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
HYPERACTIVATION OF mTOR/p70s6k ENHANCES ENDOTHELIAL ARGINASE ACTIVITY

16:00 - 16:15
K. Gusev, A-F. Zmoos, H. Abriel
Dept. of Clinical Research, University of Bern
REGULATION OF NAV1.5 CHANNELS BY ACTIN CYTOSKELETON IN CARDIAC MYOCYTES


16:20 - 16:35 Jury session


16:35 Award of the Asher-Hess Prize 2009