Conference Description
The 2021 Gordon Conference on Molecular Membrane Biology will focus on the latest insights into organelle biogenesis and fuction, membrane trafficking, the connection to metabolism, and interorganelle communication. Invited talks will feature a broad range of topics including membrane biogenesis, protein sorting to organelles, metabolic regulation of organelle biogenesis, autophagy, protein and organelle quality control, lipid homeostasis, interorganelle contact sites, host-pathogen interactions, and the mechanism of organelle fission and fusion. The meeting will include sessions on novel techniques and their application in molecular membrane biology, and relevance for diseases. The conference is highly multidisciplinary, and will include research utilizing high-throughput genetics and proteomics, structural biology, super-resolution microscopy, cryo-EM and tomography, and biophysical approaches.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by March 18, 2021. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: Biogenesis and Function of Membranes
Discussion Leaders
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Suzanne Pfeffer (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)
Speakers
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Tom Rapoport (Harvard Medical School / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
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Gillian Griffiths (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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Ramanujan Hegde (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
Connecting Membranes
Discussion Leaders
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Lilach Sheiner (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
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Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
Speakers
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Maria Bohnert (University of Münster, Germany)
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Robin Klemm (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
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William Prinz (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, USA)
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Gia Voeltz (Howard Hughes Medical Institute / University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
Metabolism and Signaling at Membranes
Discussion Leaders
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Scott Emr (Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, USA)
Speakers
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Monther AbuRamaileh (Stanford University, USA)
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Claudio De Virgilio (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
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Ralf Erdmann (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
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Rosa Puertollano-Mora (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, USA)
Protein Biogenesis and Quality Control at Membranes
Discussion Leaders
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Liz Miller (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
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Rebecca Voorhees (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Speakers
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Agnieszka Chacinska (University of Warsaw, Poland)
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Johannes Herrmann (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
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Sonya Neal (University of California, San Diego, USA)
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David Teis (Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Lipid Homeostasis at Membranes
Discussion Leaders
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Randy Schekman (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Speakers
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Anne-Claude Gavin (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
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Christopher Loewen (University of British Columbia, Canada)
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Christopher Stefan (University College London (UCL), United Kingdom)
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Rachid Thiam (École Normale Supérieure, France)
Membrane Remodeling, Fission and Fusion
Discussion Leaders
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Jodi Nunnari (University of California, Davis, USA)
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William Wickner (Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, USA)
Speakers
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Andreas Mayer (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
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Josep Rizo-Rey (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA)
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Alanna Scherpatz (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
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Jeanne Stachowiak (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Disease, Infections and Treatments
Discussion Leaders
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Fulvio Reggiori (University of Groningen / University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands)
Speakers
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Jens Brüning (Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany)
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Masaaki Komatsu (Juntendo University, Japan)
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Melina Schuh (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany)
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Mahak Sharma (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India)
Mechanisms of Organelle Identity
Discussion Leaders
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Chris Fromme (Cornell University, USA)
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Anne Spang (Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland)
Speakers
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Elvan Böke (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain)
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Adam Hughes (University of Utah, USA)
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Sean Munro (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
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Jared Rutter (University of Utah, USA)
Novel Techniques in Molecular Membrane Biology
Discussion Leaders
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Adam Frost (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Speakers
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John Briggs (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
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Florian Fröhlich (Osnabrück University, Germany)
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Aubrey Weigel (Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
