8:45 - 9:00 CET  WELCOME Session 1 

9:00 - 10:20 CET Session 1: Indian GPCR Community

Chairs: Shanu Jain (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India) and Hemlata Agnihotri (University of Delhi, India)

9:00 - 9:20 Arun Shukla (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur): 

Molecular basis of naturally-encoded signaling-bias at seven transmembrane receptors

9:20 - 9:40 Vidita Vaidya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai): 

Serotonergic Psychedelics - Mapping their anxiolytic actions

9:40 - 10:00 Prem N Yadav (Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow): 

TGR5 Signalling in Neural Stem Cell Homeostasis: Implication in Ageing Associated CNS disorders.

10:00 - 10:20 Kasturi Pal (Ashoka University, Haryana): 

Sugar coating adhesion GPCRs: Dissecting the roles of N-glycosylation in ADGRG6 maturation and signalling

10:20 - 10:30 CET Flash Talks 1: 

10:30 - 11:00 CET Poster Session 1:  Discussion with presenters in individual breakout rooms (30 min)

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11:50 - 12:00 CET  WELCOME Session 2 

12:00 - 13:20 CET Session 2: Advancing GPCR Discovery: A Journey of Academia–Industry Collaboration

Chair:  Maria Majellaro (Celtarys Research S.L., Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

12:00 - 12:20 Maria Majellaro (Celtarys, Spain): 

A game-changing technology to Illuminate GPCR pharmacology: accelerating hit discovery & optimization 

12:20 - 12:40 Ago Rinken (University of Tartu, Estonia): 

Lipid Nanoparticles Displaying GPCRs: A Versatile Platform for Ligand Binding Studies

12:40 - 13:00 Jorge Barbazán (Oncomet, Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela, Spain):

Imaging adenosine receptors in colorectal cancer using innovative fluorescence ligands

13:00 - 13:20 Prashant Donthamsetti (University of Vanderbilt, Tennessee, USA):

Optical Control of Dopamine Receptors 

13:20 - 13:30 CET Flash Talks 2: 

13:30 - 14:00 CET Poster Session 2:  Discussion with presenters in individual breakout rooms (30 min)

DAY 2 - Thursday, November 13, 2025

8:50 - 9:00  CET  WELCOME Session 3  

9:00 - 10:20 CET Session 3: The wider Australian GPCR Community

Chair: Sarah Piper (Monash University, Australia)

9:00 - 9:20 Debbie Hay (University of Otago, New Zealand):

Targeting the class B GPCR receptorome by understanding their ligands, splice variants, accessory proteins and signalling

9:20 - 9:40 Alisa Glukhova (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research , Melbourne, Australia):

Using cryo-electron microscopy to understand the biology and drug binding of the Wnt signalling pathway

9:45 - 10:00 Shane Hellyer (Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia):

Dissecting the subcellular complexity of mGlu5 signalling

10:00 - 10:10 Nicola Smith (Department of Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia):

Identifying novel targets for the treatment for lung adenocarcinoma

10:10 - 10:20 Jianjun Cao (Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia):

Structure Meets Design: Advancing Our Understanding of CGRP Receptors

10:20 - 10:30 CET Flash Talks 3: 

10:30 - 11:00 CET Poster Session 3:  Discussion with presenters in individual breakout rooms (30 min)

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11:50 - 12:00 CET WELCOME Session 4 

12:00 - 13:20 CET Session 4: ECIs of the GPCR FORUM Community

Chair: Aida Sharaki (Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Philipps University Marburg, Germany)

Poster prize winners of the 1st GPCR Forum Conference presenting 10 min talks

Friederike Marlene Wunsch (Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Münster, Germany)

Dynamics shaping GPCRs’ functionality

Florian Boessl (Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology, Technical University of Munich, Germany)

TBA

Tomasz Maciej Stepniewski (Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain, and InterAx Biotech, Switzerland)

Computational modeling of arrestin preactivation reveals insights into an intermediate conformational state

Marta López Balastegui (Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain)

Integrating AI-based predictive algorithms and GPCR-specific features for accurate genetic variant impact prediction

Judith Alenfelder (University of Bonn, Germany):

Chemogenetic G protein-ligand pairs for causal investigation of cellular biology in vitro and in vivo

Adrián García Recio (Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain)

GPCRmd: A Dynamic Platform for Exploring GPCR Structural and Functional Landscapes

13:20 - 13:30 CET Flash Talks 4: 

13:30 - 14:00 CET Poster Session 4:  Discussion with presenters in individual breakout rooms (30 min)