AKAP2026 Meeting Program

AKAP2026: February 27 – March 1 Keynote speaker: Manuela Zaccolo

All talks are 15 min + 5 min questions (except keynote)

Friday 2:00-3:00 Welcome/registration, poster hang-up 

Opening session #1  New perspectives in Local cAMP Signaling

3:00-3:10 Welcome (Carmen and John)

3:10-3:30 Roshanak Irannejad, U California, San Francisco, CA

3:30-3:50 Andreas Bock, Mainz U Medical Ctr, Germany

3:50-4:10 Ben Myers, U of Utah, UT

4:10-4:40 Coffee Break  (30 min) Drinks, snacks, put up posters

4:40-5:00 Nina Tsvetanova, Duke U, NC

5:00-5:20 Ben Goult, U of Liverpool, UK 

5:20-5:40 Xiaodong Cheng, UTHealth Houston, TX

5:40-6:00 Kjetil Tasken, U of Oslo, Norway

On your own for dinner (or early to bed for our European friends)

Saturday

Morning session #2 Pathological defects and cardiac spatial signaling

9:00-9:20 Kim Dodge Kafka, U of Connecticut, CT

9:20-9:40 Guillaume Pidoux, INSERM, France 

9:40-10:00 Julia Gorelik, Imperial College London, UK

10:00-10:20 Marion Delaunay (McKensey lab), Colorado U, CO 

10:20-11:00 Coffee break and networking (40 min)

Morning session #3 Cardiac spatial signaling, continued

11:00-11:20 Viacheslav Nikolaev, U Medical Ctr Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

11:20-11:40 Gregoire Vandecasteele, U of Paris-Sud, France

11:40-12:00 Greta Scherler (Diviani lab), U of Lausanne, Switzerland 

12:00-12:20 Michael Kapiloff, Stanford U, CA

12:20-2:20 Box lunch and posters (2 hrs)

Afternoon session #4 PKA pathologies

2:20-2:40 John Scott, U of Washington, WA

2:40-3:00 John Gordan, U of California, San Francisco

3:00-3:20 Yasemin Sankac, U of Washington, WA

3:20-3:40 Ronit Ilouz, Bar Ilan U, Israel

3:40-4:10 Coffee break (30 min)

Late afternoon session #5 PKA pathologies in neuronal systems

4:10-4:30 Carmen Dessauer & Anibal Garza Carbajal, UTHealth Houston, TX

4:30-4:50 Mark Dell’Acqua, Colorado U, CO

4:50-5:10 Johannes Hell, U California, Davis, CA

5:10-5:30 Break (20 min) 

Keynote  

5:30 – 6:10 Manuela Zaccolo, Oxford U, UK (30 min + 10 min questions)

Dinner  6:15 – 7:45 on site (BBQ)

Sunday

Morning session #5 Technology development in cAMP signaling

9:00-9:20 Jin Zhang, U of California, San Diego

9:20-9:40 Tom Rich, U of South Alabama, AL

9:40-10:00 John Tesmer, Purdue U, IL

10:00-10:20 Alemayehu (Alex) Gorfe, UTHealth Houston, TX

10:20-11:00 Coffee break and Posters (40 min)

11:00-11:20 Ren Ostrom, Chapman U School of Pharmacy, CA

11:20-11:40 Alessandra Ghigo, U Torino, Italy 

11:40-12:00 Mitch Omar, U Nevada, Reno, NV

Disband at Noon – on your own for lunch and departure