ICST supports the Association des Canaux Ioniques (French Ion Channel Association) and its annual meeting.

The ICST awards were given to:

Maddalena BALIA for her oral presentation entitled "Post-natal down-regulation of the gamma2 subunit of GABAA receptors in NG2 cells accompanies changes in GABAergic transmission mode". Second from the left, next to Florian Lesage ICST representative, both flanked by Sabine Levi and Laurent Groc, chairs of the organizing committee.

Anne-Sophie Borowiec for her poster entitled  "Molecular characterization of new TRPM8 isoform in physiology of human prostate cells", Amaury François for his poster entitled "A low threshold calcium channel for low threshold mechanosensory neurons" et Shujia Zhu for her poster entitled "Allosteric signaling in NMDA receptor via the N-terminal domains".