Abstract
The 33rd Ion Channels Meeting has been held in Sète, France, from September 8th to 11th. The congress gathered together senior and junior researchers from almost all over the world working on different fields of biology and pathophysiology. The colloquium opened with the plenary lecture on the action mechanisms of α2δ proteins in the trafficking of calcium channels and how these proteins can modulate the channels functional properties, given by Prof. Annette Dolphin. The five symposia of this edition were focused not only on several techniques for studying ion channels and their environment but also on ion channels and their involvement in cancer. Two symposia have been totally dedicated to genetic channelopathies, and the last one was devoted to glutamate receptors. All the presentations of the symposia are reported and summarized in this report meeting article.