Our Goal
ImmunoChannels is a community focused on ion channels and transporters in immunity, aiming to foster collaboration, share knowledge, and drive innovation in this emerging field.
Upcoming Seminars In ImmunoChannels Topics
UPCOMING
May 13, 2026
“TBD”
Marc Freichel, MD
Professor, Head Dept. General Pharmacology, Heidelberg University, Germany
UPCOMING
May 13, 2026
“TBD”
Antony Galione, FRS FMedSci
Statutory Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, UK
PAST
March 19, 2026
“Microglial Potassium Channels as Targets for Neuroinflammation”
Heike Wulff, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
PAST EVENT
February 25, 2026
“P2RX7-Mediated Control of CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion“
Henrique Borges da Silva, PhD
Associate Professor of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA
PAST EVENT
February 25, 2026
“Role of Piezo1 in T Cell Function: Biomechanical Regulation of Solid Tumor Immunity”
Shivashankar Othy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physiology & Biophysics,
School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
PAST EVENT
“Nutrient Transporters in Tumor-Specific T cells: Causes and Consequences of T Cell Exhaustion”
Greg Delgoffe, PhD Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
PAST EVENT
December 10, 2025
“The Ins and OUTs of GLUT3 in T cells”
Martin Vaeth, PhD
Assistant Professor, Institute of Systems Immunology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
PAST EVENT
October 23, 2025
“Metabolic and Neural Regulation of Immunity and Cancer”
Tak Mak, PhD
Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada
PAST EVENT
UPCOMING
June 18, 2025
“Novel ER Calcium Channels in T Cell Biology and Beyond”
Min Peng, PhD
Professor, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, CN
PAST EVENT
May 15, 2025
“Regulation and function of store-operated and mechanosensitive Ca2+ channels in neutrophils”
Nicolas Demaurex, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Cell
Physiology & Metabolism, University of Geneva
PAST EVENT
“Ion channel TRPM7 in Endolysosomal Physiology of Macrophages”
Bimal Desai, PhDProfessor, Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine
PAST EVENT
“Nociceptor neurons in host defense and barrier immunity”
Isaac Chiu, PhDProfessor, Department of Immunology, Harvard Medical School
PAST EVENT
“The TRPM7 channel-kinase in immune cell function & inflammatory disease”
Susanna Zierler, PhDChair of the Institute of Pharmacology; Faculty of Medicine, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria
Upcoming Conference
AAI Guest Symposium at Immunology 2026 (April 15-19, 2026)
New Insights into the Role of Channels and Transporters in Immunity
Thursday, 4/16/2026
8:00:00 AM – 9:30:00 AM
Room: 104C | Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center | Boston, MA
Sponsoring Society: Society of General Physiologists (SGP)
Chair: Stefan Feske, MD – New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Co-chair: Adriana Mantegazza, PhD – Thomas Jefferson University
