IGJC2024

International Gap Junction Conference 2024
July 27-31, 2024 Arlington, Virginia, USA
Organizers: Silvia Penuela @DrSilviaPenuela and Jamie Smyth @JamieSmythLab

[Tanentzapf Lab @TanentzapfLab]

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard

[Dr. María D. Mayán @MariaDMayan]

Step by step but dream big - advise for young people 💪🏻🔬

[Silvia Penuela @DrSilviaPenuela]

Mark your calendars for the International Gap Junction Conference #IGJC2026 in Padua Italy! It will be July 25-29, 2026. More details to come soon from the European organizing committee

[Cell & Tissue Research @ctr_springer]

Call for Papers: Connexins, Innexins, and Pannexins: From Structure to Physiology. Curated by Dr. Trond Aasen, Dr. James Smyth and Dr. Silvia Penuela. Submissions now open! https://t.co/TjVZTT9fj8 #callforpapers @TrondAasen @JamieSmythLab @DrSilviaPenuela

[Silvia Penuela @DrSilviaPenuela]

Happy to be done organizing this one :) but already looking forward to the next one in Padua, Italy IGJC2026 by @fabiomammano @marcchanson and their European team #connexin #pannexins #innexins #gapjunctions

[Silvia Penuela @DrSilviaPenuela]

And it’s a wrap! Thank you for participating and attending @IGJC2024 You made 3 years of planning and organizing #IGJC2024 totally worth it for your co-chairs @JamieSmythLab and myself. We couldn’t have asked for a better scientific program,exciting discussions and fun networking

[IGJC2024 @igjc2024]

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Congratulations to the #IGJC2024 poster winners!
PhD students:
1st: Paras Gupta (Sorgen Lab)
2nd: Xinyue Ding (Korkhov Lab)
3rd: Justin Tang (Penuela Lab)

Postdocs :
1st: Chelsea Philips (Smyth Lab)
2nd: Rui Hua (Jiang Lab)
3rd: Md Ruhul Amin (Gourdie Lab)

[IGJC2024 @igjc2024]

Congratulations also to our talk award winners!!!
PhD
1st: Meghan Sedovy
2nd: Brooke O’Donnell
3rd Lindsey Taylor

Post Doc
1st: Crystal L. Sigulinsky
2nd: Brent Wakefield
3rd: Amanda Mauro

[Dr. María D. Mayán @MariaDMayan]

Thank you very much for a wonderful meeting in connexins and pannexins 👌🏼@igjc2024

👉🏼Next, in 2026 in Padua 🇮🇹

[IGJC2024 @igjc2024]

Big thanks also to our final session chairs!
Thanks Dr. Paul Sorgen and Dr. John O'Brien

[Justin Lathia, PhD 🧠🕺🏽 @JustinLathia]

@igjc2024 Congrats @AymGaboriau

[IGJC2024 @igjc2024]

Congratulations to the #IGJC2024 poster winners!
PhD students:
1st: Paras Gupta (Sorgen Lab)
2nd: Xinyue Ding (Korkhov Lab)
3rd: Justin Tang (Penuela Lab)

Postdocs :
1st: Chelsea Philips (Smyth Lab)
2nd: Rui Hua (Jiang Lab)
3rd: Md Ruhul Amin (Gourdie Lab)

[IGJC2024 @igjc2024]

Thank you Dr. Mrignayani Kotecha for sharing the latest in EPR imaging technology!

Congratulations to Aymerick Gaboriau for winning the 02M technologies travel award!

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Thank you for sharing your beautiful work Dr Crystal L. Sigulinsky, at #IGJC2024
"Gap junction networks in ultrastructural mammalian connectomes"

[IGJC2024 @igjc2024]

Great job by Yao Xue in his talk! Keep up the good work!

"Integrated and multiplexed parallel processing by electric synapses in retinal cone bipolar cells"

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Thank you Dr Viviana M. Berthoud for a great talk discussing your lab's recent work titled "Connexin channels and hemichannels are modulated differently by charge reversal at residues forming the intracellular pocket"!

[IGJC2024 @igjc2024]

Great talk by Dr Volodymyr Korkhov, thank you for sharing your fascinating work on the "Molecular mechanisms of gap junction channel inhibition by small molecules"

[IGJC2024 @igjc2024]

Session XII ‘Structure and Function', our last session of #IGJC2024 right now

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Once again, thanks to those who chaired today's sessions, and ensured yet another great day of talks!
Thank you to Dr Rob Gourdie, Dr Joseph Palatinus, Dr Randy Stout, Dr Kirk Taylor, Dr Justin Lathia and Dr Elizabeth Yeh!

[IGJC2024 @igjc2024]

Who's ready for Keynote IV!? Dr Arantxa Tabernero on ‘The connexin43 mimetic peptide TAT-Cx43-266-283 as a
promising therapy against glioblastoma’
#IGJC2024 #IGJC