Transient Receptor Potential channels: What's happening? Reflections in the wake of the 2009 TRP Meeting, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
More than 150 participants from 25 countries gathered in Stockholm during 25(th) to 27(th) Sept 2009 to attend the meeting "TRP channels: from sensory signaling to human disease" and enjoyed an international, intensive and vibrant meeting. This meeting shed lights on the recent advances made in this field of research in different sectors of biology, and identified directions for future research and the areas where TRP channels could be used as potential targets for prevention and treatment of human diseases. The participants of this meeting shared their recent largely unpublished data, state-of-the-art techniques and their critical views which would push research in this field forward in the new decade. Another major outcome of this meeting was the realization that extensive work remains to be done to develop the necessary tools and enhance the quality of research in this area so that the prevailing controversies can be resolved. In this report we summarize the latest scientific excitements, some critical issues, as well as some future directions for research that were addressed and discussed in this meeting.
Goswami
Chandan
C
National Institute of Science Education and Research, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar, India. chandan@niser.ac.in
Islam
Md Shahidul
MS
D000818:Animals; D006728:Hormones / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D012677:Sensation; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013697:Thermosensing; D050051:Transient Receptor Potential Channels / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
D006728:Hormones; D050051:Transient Receptor Potential Channels