8:50 - 9:00 CET  OPENING and WELCOME to Session 1 

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

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

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: 

Anandhu J (Ashoka University, India)

Sangita Bhattacharyya (The University of Kansas Medical Center, USA)

Miguel Dieguez (Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Spain)

Infant Sagayaraj Ravhe (Indian Institute of Technology, India)

Esther Montoliu (Instituto de Química Médica, IQM - CSIC, Spain) 

Søren Norge Andreassen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

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

1.2. Anandhu J., 1.3. Sangita Bhattacharyya,  1.4. Miguel Dieguez,  1.5. Infant Sagayaraj Ravhe, 1.6. Esther Montoliu, 1.7. Søren Norge Andreassen

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11:55 - 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, Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

12:00 - 12:20 Maria Majellaro (Celtarys Research, 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 (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA):

Optical Control of Dopamine Receptors 

13:20 - 13:30 CET Flash Talks 2: 

Shivani Sachdev (National Institutes of Health, USA) 

Icaro A. Simon (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Rosa M. Mella (Innoprot, Spain)

Jonas Mühle (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)

Fabio Francavilla (University of Bari "A. Moro", Italy)

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

2.1. Icaro A. Simon, 2.3. Rosa M. Mella,  2.5. Toni Capó Quetglas, 2.6. Jonas Mühle,  2.7. Fabio Francavilla

DAY 2 - Thursday, November 13, 2025

8:55 - 9:00  CET  WELCOME Session 3  

9:00 - 10:20 CET Session 3: The Australian and New Zealand 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: 

Anni Allikalt (University of Tartu, Estonia)

Anne Madariaga (University of Madrid, Spain)

Adam Wright (Queen's University Belfast, UK)

Francesco Fontanive (University of Verona, Italy)

Arianna Migliorini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Oscar Diaz Sanzo (Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Center, CINN-CSIC, Spain)

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

3.1. Anni Allikalt,  3.2. Anne Madariaga,  3.3. Adam Wright,  3.4. Francesco Fontanive,  3.5. Arianna Migliorini,  3.6. Oscar Díaz Sanzo, 3.7. Elizaveta Korchevaya

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11:55 - 12:00 CET WELCOME Session 4 

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

Chairs: Aida Shahraki (Marburg University, Germany) and Itziar Muneta Arrate (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

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)

Decoding Odorant Receptor Activation: Integrating Simulation and Sequence-Driven Approaches to Understand OR Function

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: 

Gáspár Pándy-Szekeres (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Marc Ciruela Jardí (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

Javier Sanchez Lorente (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Arman Simonyan (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

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

4.1. Gáspár Pándy-Szekeres,  4.3. Marc Ciruela Jardí,  4.4. Javier Sanchez Lorente,  4.5. Evgenii Ziaikin,  4.6. Alejandro Peralta Garcia,  4.7. Arman Simonyan