The Royal Society (UK) supported a scientific meeting “Evolution brings Ca2+ and ATP together to control life and death” (16-17 March, 2016, UK), initiated and co-organised by the UKRAINE Network member Prof. Alexej Verkhratsky (University of Manchester), member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and dedicated to the 70th jubilee of the renown Ukrainian biophysicist Prof. Oleg Kryshtal (Bomoletz Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine).