Sunday |
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Session: Proteasome and Autophagy: Two Faces of Proteostasis: Implication for Human Disease |
| Discussion Leader: Patrice Codogno (INSERM, France) |
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Opening Remarks |
7:50 pm - 8:20 pm | Fred Goldberg (Harvard Medical School, USA) "Regulation of Proteasome Function: From Protein Degradation to Disease Therapy" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Herbert Virgin (Washington University School of Medicine, USA) "Role of Autophagy and Autophagy Genes in Inflammation and Immunity" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Tamotsu Yoshimori (Osaka University, Japan) "Selective Autophagy and Diseases" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Mechanism of Autophagy |
| Discussion Leader: Tamotsu Yoshimori (Osaka University, Japan) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Noboru Mizushima (The University of Tokyo, Japan) "Initiation of Autophagosome Formation" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Sharon Tooze (Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom) "Trafficking Regulators in Autophagosome Formation" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Liang Ge (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "Formation of an Endomembrane Compartment for Autophagosome Biogenesis" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:25 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Morel Etienne (Institut Necker Enfants Malades, France) "Autophagosome Biogenesis at Endoplasmic Reticulum-Plasma Membrane Contact Sites" |
10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Hitoshi Nakatogawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) "Molecular Mechanisms of ER-Phagy and Nucleophagy in Yeast" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | James Hurley (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "Structural Insights into Autophagy Initiation" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Vladimir Rogov (Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Frankfurt, Germany) "Autophagy Meets Ufmylation at the Novel Ubiquitin-Like Protein-Binding Motif LIR/UFIM, Which Is Located Within the UBA5 C-Terminal Region and Required for Its Function" |
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Jayanta Debnath (University of California, San Francisco, USA) "Proximity-Specific Biotinylation Identifies New Targets of Autophagy-Dependent Secretion" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Regulation of Autophagy |
| Discussion Leader: David Rubinsztein (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Kun-Liang Guan (University of California, San Diego, USA) "Nutrient Signaling in Cell Growth Control" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Adi Kimchi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) "Phosphorylation Events Regulating the Function of Autophagic Proteins" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Ivan Dikic (Goethe University Medical School, Germany) "Ubiquitin Regulation of Selective Autophagy" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Douglas Grunwald (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA) "Role of the ULK1 Complex-Atg8 Interaction in Autophagy" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Prasun Guha (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA) "Inositol Polyphosphate Multikinase Is a Critical Regulator of Autophagy" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Autophagy in Model Organisms and Plants |
| Discussion Leader: Malene Hansen (Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Eric Baehrecke (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA) "Autophagy, Cell Health and Cell Death" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Hong Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) "Structural Basis of the Differential Function of the Two C. elegans Atg8 Homologs, LGG-1 and LGG-2, in Autophagy" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Nobuo Noda (Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Japan) "Structural Basis of the Autophagy Initiating PAS Assembly" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:25 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Christine Abert (Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria) "Multiple Atg8 Binding Sites in the Atg19 Receptor Are Crucial for Selective Autophagy" |
10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Diane Bassham (Iowa State University, USA) "rRNA Turnover in the Plant Vacuole via Autophagy" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Miguel Penalva (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB), Spain) "Autophagy in Aspergillus nidulans: What Can We Learn from a Filamentous Fungus?" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Christian Ungermann (University of Osnabrück, Germany) "Insights into Autophagosome-Vacuole Fusion" |
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Andreas Jenny (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA) "Selective Endosomal Microautophagy Is Starvation Inducible in Drosophila" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Autophagy in
Infection and Immunity |
| Discussion Leader: Herbert Virgin (Washington University School of Medicine, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Ken Cadwell (New York University School of Medicine, USA) "Atg16L1 and Host-Pathogen Interactions" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Vojo Deretic (University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, USA) "Precision Autophagy" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Christian Munz (University of Zurich, Switzerland) "Non-Canonical Roles of Autophagy Proteins in Endocytosis and Exocytosis During Infections" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Philippe Pierre (CNRS, France) "Autophagy Regulation in Immune Cell Subsets, a Focus on RUFY4" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Yair Botbol (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA) "Common Gamma-Chain Cytokine Signaling Is Critical for Activation-Induced Autophagy in CD4+ T Cell" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Autophagy in
Development and Differentiation |
| Discussion Leader: Ana Maria Cuervo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Beth Levine (University of Texas, USA) "Inner Mitochondrial Membrane Proteins Involved in Mitophagy" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Andrea Ballabio (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Italy) "Lysosomal Signalling Controls Autophagy" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Fiona Menzies (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) "Autophagy Regulation of Notch Degradation and Its Functional Consequences" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:25 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Flavie Strappazzon (Santa Lucia Foundation, Italy) "Pro-Survival AMBRA1 Turns into a Pro-Apoptotic BH3-Like Protein During Mitochondrial Apoptosis" |
10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Li Yu (Tsinghua University, China) "Assembly of Multi-Kinases Complex on Mitochondria Initiate Energy Deprivation Induced Autophagy" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Augustine Choi (Weill Cornell Medical College, USA) "Crosstalk Between Autophagy and Inflammation and Cell Death" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Thomas Riffelmacher (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) "Autophagy Is Essential for Neutrophil Differentiation - Guiding a Metabolic Switch" |
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Jingyu Yao (University of Michigan, USA) "Autophagy-Mediated
Catabolism of Visual Transduction Proteins Prevents Retinal Degeneration" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Autophagy in Metabolism and Ageing |
| Discussion Leader: Vojo Deretic (University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Ana Maria Cuervo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA) "Selective Autophagy: Helping to Make the Right Metabolic Choices" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Guido Kroemer (University of Paris Descartes, France) "Caloric Restriction Mimetics for Autophagy Induction - From Theory to Clinical Implementation" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Malene Hansen (Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, USA) "Autophagy and Aging: Lessons from Long-Lived Animals" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Nunzia Pastore (Baylor College of Medicine, USA) "TFEB and TFE3 Cooperate in the Control of Lipid Metabolism" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Gisela Otten (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) "Oxidation-Dependent Regulation of the Autophagy Receptor Sqstm1/p62 and Its Potential Role in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Autophagy in Diseases |
| Discussion Leader: Katja Simon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Alec Kimmelman (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, USA) "Autophagy, Metabolism, and Pancreatic Cancer" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Mihai Netea (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands) "Autophagy Control of Cytokines and Inflammatory Processes" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Rhea Sumpter (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA) "Fanconi Anemia Tumor Suppressor Genes Function in Selective Autophagy, Immunity and Mitochondrial Homeostasis" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am - 10:25 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Sergio Catz (The Scripps Research Institute, USA) "Improvement of Cellular Function in Cystinosis by Modulation of Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy and LAMP2A Trafficking" |
10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Mondira Kundu (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA) "Ulk1/Atg1 in Development and Disease" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Charleen Chu (University of Pittsburgh, USA) "Regulation of Injury-Induced Mitophagy: Day Jobs and Emergency Call" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Natalia Kononenko (CECAD, University of Cologne, Germany) "Autophagosome Transport via the Endocytic Adaptor AP-2 Mediates Neuronal Complexity and Prevents Neurodegeneration" |
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Wei-Xing Zong (Rutgers University, USA) "p62 Ubiquitylation in Protein Aggregation and Redox Homeostasis" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Drug Discovery and Potential Therapeutic Targets |
| Discussion Leader: Beth Levine (University of Texas, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Beat Nyfeler (Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Switzerland) "Autophagy: A Therapeutic Target for Cancer?" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Junying Yuan (Harvard Medical School, USA) "Regulation of Type III PI3 Kinase in Control of Autophagy" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Janice Lee (Takeda Oncology, USA) "Targeting Autophagy for Cancer Therapy" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Zhe Sha (Harvard Medical School, USA) "Proteasome Inhibition Causes Selective Induction of p62 and GABARAPL1, Which Promote the Clearance of Ubiquitin Conjugates via an Autophagy-Independent Mechanism" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Maged Harraz (The Johns Hopkins University, USA) "Autophagy Mediates Neurotoxic and Stimulant Effects of Cocaine" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |