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Matthias Ganglberger's defense is starting now!

He is presenting his work on Congenital Stationary Night Blindness (CSNB2)!

We congratulate the energetic @ortnernadine.bsky.social for being awarded the Otto Loewi Prize at the Austrian Neuroscience Association Meeting 2025! 😁

Photo credit: ANA

We have to congratulate ourselves (since we manage the page) (Ryo & Laura) for presenting in the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. 😅😁

Also cool paired outfits 👀.

#EASD2025

We would like to congratulate our CaVX (associated) PhD student, now doctor, Victoria Halim.

She focused her dissertation on the importance of Paralemmin-3 on auditory hair cell structure.

Congratulations, Victoria! :) You put the A in Asian.

The CaVX (Tuluc lab) is at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes Conference 2025!
#EASD2025

Great place to present and discuss about the projects of Ryoichi Taguchi and Laura Häfele both working on beta-cell function. 🧬🤓 @eisg2025.bsky.social #eisg2025

Offering a great opportunity for the Tuluc Lab to connect with people in the Islet research field! @eisg2025.bsky.social

Excited to be participating at @eisg2025.bsky.social #eisg2025 in beautiful Malmö!

In the ECCC 2025, we honor Bill Catterall for his significant contribution to the ion channel science - but more importantly to the science community.

Happening 🥹

The team led by Nadine Ortner successfully got a research grant focusing on gene mutations that impair the function of CaV 1.3 channels!

Congrats to the team!
From left: Frank Edenhofer, Stefanie Geisler, Nadine Ortner, Petronel Tuluc and Christopher Esk

Warmest congratulations to Simone Pelizzari(Flucher Research Group) for successfully defending his PhD! 🥳👏

To know more about his work:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brava, Dr. Pelizzari!

And of course, the social night was full of free alcohol, and fun! Thank you for the organizing committee and sponsors.

Cherry on top was four of our student bagged awards!

Simone Pelizzari - Best Neuroscience Paper
Elisa Cornelia Roth - Best Talk
Ryoichi Taguchi - Best Poster
Lucas Hallbrucker - Best Poster

Congrats to everyone! :`)

We are also happy to have welcomed our invited speaker Stephan Pless from Copenhagen, chaired by Laura Häfele.
@plesslab.bsky.social

Talks and posters were presented by CaVX people!
Here featuring Alesia, Ryo, and Jan.

Last April 23-25, we attended the Life Science Meeting.
We had a lot of posters, talks, and of course fun. This is a student-led conference by the University and Medical University of Innsbruck.

Picture with the winner!
The event was held in Innsbruck, Austria.
Lab members and proud mentors with Steffi.

Here is Stefanie Geisler in action (we tried to be candid 😅).
Awesome pictures of neurons 🧠.

First, we celebrated our beloved postdoc, Stefanie Geisler, for receiving the Prize of the Principality of Liechtenstein for her outstanding research on the role of CaV α2δ subunits in neuroendocrine and neuronal tissue.

Congratulations Steffi!

April has been a good month for the CaVx people. So let's do a little recap on the recent events :).

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Heeyyyy people who are into ion channels.

We have an opening for FIVE Ph.D. Positions!

Please reshare, we are awesome. Apply to us!

Further info:
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Looking for a PhD position in life sciences? Don't miss out on the opportunity to apply to one of five current open positions and become part of the CavX research community!
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Also a lot of fun!
With great science comes great(er) alcohol, and games, and rest.

See you next year!

We also congratulate our stellar student, Sabrin Haddad, for successfully defending her thesis. She also won the JNC Young Scientist Paper of the Year Award in the field of neurochemistry!

Our students shared their progress with different projects involving voltage-gated calcium channels!

On the 20 and 21st of March 2025 we had our annual CavX PhD Program Retreat at Matrei am Brenner, with our esteemed guest, Dr. Patrik Rorsman!

Just a bit of recap the recent month since we've been inactive:
1st share - We had a retreat!

Looking for a PhD position in life sciences? Don't miss out on the opportunity to apply to one of five current open positions and become part of the CavX research community!
Check out cavx.at/open-positio...