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Autophagy in Stress, Development and Disease (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

The Focus on Selective Autophagy

March 15 - 16, 2014
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Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco
Via Giovanni Pascoli
Lucca (Barga), Lucca, Italy
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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Autophagy in Stress, Development & Disease is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is on Selective Autophagy, its mechanisms and roles in health and disease. The meeting will cover all types of Selective Autophagy grouped in three Science Sessions: (1) Selective Autophagy of Proteins, (2) Selective Autophagy of Organelles and (3) Selective Autophagy of Microorganisms.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Autophagy in Stress, Development and Disease" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

SATURDAY
1:30 pm - 4:30 pmArrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Chair Taras Nazarko (UC San Diego, USA)
3:15 pm - 4:00 pmKeynote Lecture
Discussion Leader: Paolo Grumati (University of Padova, Italy)
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmAna Maria Cuervo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA)
"Selective Autophagy: Fighting Disease One Protein at a Time"
3:45 pm - 4:00 pmDiscussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmPoster Session I
5:30 pm - 6:50 pmSelective Autophagy of Proteins
Discussion Leaders: Terje Johansen (University of Tromsoe, Norway) and Luisa Coletto (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA)
5:30 pm - 5:42 pmSebastian Schultz (Norwegian Radium Hospital, Norway)
"New Roles for p62 and NBR1 in Early Events of Selective Autophagy of Protein Aggregates"
5:42 pm - 5:50 pmDiscussion
5:50 pm - 6:02 pmKosuke Shiraishi (Kyoto University, Japan)
"The Role of Cvt Pathway in Yeast During Adaptation to Nitrogen Sources"
6:02 pm - 6:10 pmDiscussion
6:10 pm - 6:22 pmSijie Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
"Interplay Between Ubiquitination and Phosphorylation in Synphilin-1-mediated Aggrephagy"
6:22 pm - 6:30 pmDiscussion
6:30 pm - 6:42 pmMathieu Bourdenx (Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, France)
"Boosting Lysosomal-Mediated Degradation for Parkinson's Disease"
6:42 pm - 6:50 pmDiscussion
6:50 pm - 7:30 pmSelective Autophagy of Organelles
Discussion Leaders: Suresh Subramani (UC San Diego, USA) and Viktor Korolchuk (Newcastle University, UK)
6:50 pm - 7:02 pmRonak Lakhani (UC San Diego, USA)
"Defects in GABA Metabolism Affect Selective Autophagy Pathways and Are Alleviated by mTOR Inhibition"
7:02 pm - 7:10 pmDiscussion
7:10 pm - 7:22 pmMalia Potts (UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA)
"The MEKK3-MEK5-ERK5 Kinase Module is Required for Mitophagy"
7:22 pm - 7:30 pmDiscussion
8:00 pmDinner
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 9:40 amSelective Autophagy of Organelles (continued)
Discussion Leaders: Suresh Subramani (University of California, San Diego, USA) and Viktor Korolchuk (Newcastle University, UK)
9:00 am - 9:12 amFlavie Strappazzon (Santa Lucia Foundation, Italy)
"AMBRA1 is Able to Induce Mitophagy via LC3 Binding, Regardless of PARKIN and p62/SQSTM1"
9:12 am - 9:20 amDiscussion
9:20 am - 9:32 amAnna Vainshtein (York University, Canada)
"PGC-1α at the Crossroads of Mitophagy and Mitochondrial Biogenesis"
9:32 am - 9:40 amDiscussion
9:40 am - 11:00 amSelective Autophagy of Microorganisms
Discussion Leaders: Beth Levine (UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA) and Ikuko Koyama-Honda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
9:40 am - 9:52 amAndrew Cutting (San Diego State University, USA)
"Role of Selective Autophagy in Brain Endothelium as a Host Defense Against the Meningeal Pathogen Group B Streptococcus"
9:52 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 10:12 amRyosuke Ishimura (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan)
"Dissection of the Role of p62/Sqstm1 in Activation of Nrf2 During Xenophagy"
10:12 am - 10:20 amDiscussion
10:20 am - 10:32 amLina Mouna (University of Paris-Sud, France)
"Human Cytomegalovirus Encodes Two Complementary Beclin-1-Interacting Antiautophagic Proteins"
10:32 am - 10:40 amDiscussion
10:40 am - 10:52 amMichael Mandell (University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, USA)
"The Autophagic Roles of TRIM5α in Retroviral Restriction"
10:52 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pmPoster Session II
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmCareer Development Session
Discussion Leaders: Konstantin Salnikow (National Cancer Institute, USA) and Taras Nazarko (UC San Diego, USA)
1:30 pm - 1:42 pmBeth Levine (UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA)
"Academic Careers in Autophagy"
1:42 pm - 1:50 pmDiscussion
1:50 pm - 2:02 pmVladimir Kirkin (Merck Serono, Germany)
"How to Target Autophagy for Therapy"
2:02 pm - 2:10 pmDiscussion
2:10 pm - 2:22 pmNonia Pariente (EMBO reports, Germany)
"A Look Behind the Scenes of Professional Scientific Editing"
2:22 pm - 2:30 pmDiscussion
2:30 pm - 2:40 pmClosing Remarks by the GRS Chair Taras Nazarko (UC San Diego, USA) and Associate Chair Paolo Grumati (University of Padova, Italy)
2:40 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pmSeminar Concludes

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