Welcome to the Worldwide Sodium Channel Community,

Voltage-gated sodium channels are the basis of cellular excitability. Most of us learned about their impressively rapid gating during their first physiology classes, including that its quick opening underlies the fast upstroke of the action potential, and its fast inactivation is conveyed by a “ball-and-chain” or “hinged-lid” mechanism within the channel protein.
In recent years, high-resolution CryoEM structures confirmed and challenged some of these fundamental understandings. High-power computer analyses combined with electrophysiology, biochemistry, and more systemic methods expanded our understanding of the structure-function relation of the channels, their role in physiology, and disease.

The Worldwide Sodium Channel Seminar Series brings together researchers from around the globe to share the latest discoveries, discuss new ideas, and strengthen collaborations across disciplines. Our online seminars feature internationally leading scientists covering topics from basic channel biology and structural mechanisms to translational research, genetics, pharmacology, and clinical applications. 

Held monthly from October to June, the seminar series provides an open platform for scientific exchange and welcomes participants from academia, industry, and clinical research worldwide.

In addition to the seminar series, we organize the Worldwide Sodium Channel Conference, an international meeting dedicated to sodium channel research. Following the success of our conferences in 2024 and 2026 in Grindelwald, Switzerland, we look forward to continuing to connect and inspire the global sodium channel community through both online and in-person events.

Whether you are an established investigator, an early-career researcher, or simply interested in sodium channel biology, we warmly invite you to join our seminars, engage in discussions, and become part of this growing international network.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Co-organizers: Prof. Angelika Lampert & Prof. Hugues Abriel with Dr. Jannis Körner, Dr. Pauline Kinny, Dr. Oksana Iamshanova, Dr. Jean-Sébastien Rougier, Dr. Aylin Kesdoğan, and Anne Kortemeyer.

If you have any questions, please contact us via :  nav@ukaachen.de