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

32nd GPCR Zoominar


Julien Bous
(Karolinska Institute, Sweden)

"Structural Basis of Frizzled 7 Activation and Allosteric Regulation"


Recorded on
June 27, 2024

33rd GPCR Zoominar


John Janetzko
(University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA )

"Give it arrest(in) – how small allosteric machines work to regulate G protein-coupled receptors"


Iqra Sohail
(Charité Berlin, Germany)

"Modulation of Melanocortin-4 Receptor (MC4R) Dimerization and Signaling by accessory protein MRAP2"


Recorded on
July 11, 2024

34th  GPCR Zoominar Café Session

Masha Niv
(The Hebrew University, Israel) 

Recorded on
July 18, 2024 

35th GPCR Zoominar


Alejandro Díaz Holguín
(Uppsala University, Sweden)

"AlphaFold accelerated discovery of psychotropic agonists targeting the trace amine–associated receptor 1"


Recorded on
September 26, 2024

36th GPCR Zoominar


Omolade Otun

(Institute of Functional Genomics, Montpellier, France) 

"Linking the conformational landscape of Atypical Chemokine Receptor 3 to ligand efficacy using HDX-MS"


Recorded on
October 10, 2024

37th GPCR Zoominar


Brady Johnston 

(Freelance scientific animator, Australia) 

"Blending Proteins with Molecular Nodes"


Sarah Piper 

(Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Melbourne, Australia)

"Using Blender to visualise Class B1 GPCR structural data in 3D animations"


Recorded on
November 7, 2024

38th GPCR Zoominar


Robert B. Quast

(Centre de Biologie Structurale, Montpellier, France) 

"Studying conformational changes of class C GPCRs using 2- and 3-color single molecule FRET"


Recorded on
November 21, 2024

39th GPCR Zoominar


Aurélien Fouillen

(Departement de Physiologie, INSERM - University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France) 

"Structural characterization of the active and inactive conformations of the vasopressin V2 receptor using cryo-EM"


Recorded on
December 5, 2024

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