GPCR Zoominars

GPCR Zoominars 2025

Join and view webinars by ECI speakers from the vibrant GPCR community hosted by GPCR Forum members.

This webinar series provides a platform for Early Career Investigators (ECIs) from all areas of GPCR research to present their research to an international community!
Occasional Café sessions create a safe space in which more senior researchers can share their experience and ECIs can ask all the career related questions they always wanted to ask.

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Upcoming events

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Watch the recordings of previous zoominars in 2025

41st GPCR Zoominar

Judith Alenfelder
(University of Bonn, Germany)

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

Recorded on
January 30, 2025

42nd GPCR Zoominar

Ryan Gumpper
(UNC Chapel Hill, USA)

"Decoding Psychedelics: Structural Insights into their Pharmacology and Receptor Interactions"

Recorded on
February 27, 2025

43rd GPCR Zoominar

Lars Jürgenliemke
(University of Bonn, Germany)

"Glue-tiful inhibitors: Cyclic Depsipeptides Enhance Protein-Protein Interaction Within the Subunits of Heterotrimeric Gq/11 Proteins"

Recorded on
March 13, 2025

Watch the recordings of previous zoominars in 2024

21st GPCR Zoominar

Mattia Deluigi
(University of Zurich, Switzerland)
"How structural insights into neurotensin receptor 1 and α-adrenoceptors inform drug discovery"

Nil Casajuana-Martin
(Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
"GPCR heteromers and how to target them"

Recorded on
January 18, 2024

22nd GPCR Zoominar

Franziska Heydenreich
(Philipps University Marburg, Germany)
"Molecular determinants of ligand efficacy and potency in GPCR signaling"

Alexandra Steuer
(Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich, Germany)
"GNNs for prediction of peptides’ bitter taste"

Recorded on
February 1, 2024

24th GPCR Zoominar

Gabriele Kockelkoren
(University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

"Nanodomains of GPCRs at the plasma membrane: direct observation, formation and function."

Recorded on
March 7, 2024

25th GPCR Zoominar Café Session

Marta Filizola
(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA)

Recorded on
March 21, 2024

26th GPCR Zoominar

Chloe J. Peach
(Centre of Membrane Proteins and Receptors (COMPARE), University of Nottingham, UK)
"Spatiotemporal dynamics of receptor tyrosine kinases and their modulation by glycoproteins"

Sina Kirchhofer
(Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)
"Ligand-specific voltage sensitivity of the µ Opioid Receptor"

Recorded on
April 4, 2024

28th GPCR Zoominar

Grant Glatfelter
(Designer Drug Research Unit, National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA)

"Utility of the mouse head twitch response in psychedelic drug discovery: strengths, limitations, and methodological advances in detection"

Recorded on May 2, 2024

29th GPCR Zoominar

Christian Baumann
(Wasserversorgung - waterworks (WVZ), Department Quality Monitoring, Zurich, Switzerland)

"Side-chain dynamics of the α1B-adrenergic receptor studied by NMR"

Recorded on May 16, 2024

31st GPCR Zoominar

Hannes Schihada
(Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)

"Advanced tools for orphan GPCR drug discovery: a GPR3 conformational biosensor reveals novel ligands"

Eline Pottie
(Ghent University, Belgium)
"Identification of psychedelic new psychoactive substances (NPS) showing biased agonism at the 5-HT2AR through simultaneous use of β-arrestin 2 and miniGαq bioassays"

Recorded on
June 13, 2024