Conference Description
The Translation Machinery in Health and Disease GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
The Translation Machinery in Health and Disease GRC will highlight new molecular insights into translation including control during normal processes and how their dysregulation contributes to a wide array of diseases. Global and specialized translation will be discussed in the context of neurological disorders, cancer, pathogens and immunity, stress and aging, cellular condensates, mitochondria, ribosomopathies and rare diseases as well as the latest conceptual and technical advances that drive new discoveries in translation.
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 October 26, 2024. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: Novel Molecular Insights into Protein Synthesis and Translation Factors
Discussion Leaders
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Shu-Bing Qian (Cornell University, United States)
Speakers
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Tao Pan (University of Chicago, United States)
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Erin Schuman (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany)
Molecular Insights into Dysregulated Translation in Cancer
Discussion Leaders
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Shobha Vasudevan (MGH-Harvard Medical School, United States)
Speakers
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Reuven Agami (Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands)
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Anne Willis (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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Shalini Oberdoerffer (National Institutes of Health, United States)
Probing Translation and Its Control in Aging and Stress
Discussion Leaders
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Alan Warren (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Speakers
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Simon Bekker-Jensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Alan Hinnebusch (National Institutes of Health, United States)
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Motomasa Tanaka (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)
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Haissi Cui (University of Toronto, Canada)
Translation in Neurons and Disruption in Disease
Discussion Leaders
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Sunghoon Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Speakers
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Xiang-Lei Yang (The Scripps Research Institute, United States)
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Susan Ackerman (University of California, San Diego / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States)
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Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute , United States)
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Robert Burgess (The Jackson Laboratory, United States)
Derailed Ribosomes and Human Disease
Discussion Leaders
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Tao Pan (University of Chicago, United States)
Speakers
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Alan Warren (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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Tsutomu Suzuki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Rachel Green (Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, United States)
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Juliette Fedry (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
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Sichen Shao (Harvard Medical School, United States)
Translation and Immunity
Discussion Leaders
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Susan Ackerman (University of California, San Diego / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States)
Speakers
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Shaeri Mukherjee (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
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Yaser Hashem (Institut Européen de Chimie et de Biologie (IECB), Université de Bordeaux, France)
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Ya-Ming Hou (Thomas Jefferson University, United States)
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Sergey Melnikov (Newcastle University, United States)
Localized Translation and Organelles
Discussion Leaders
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Xiang-Lei Yang (The Scripps Research Institute, United States)
Speakers
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Aleksandra Filipovska (University of Western Australia, Australia)
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Christopher Nicchitta (Duke University School of Medicine, United States)
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Sunghoon Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea)
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Stavroula Mili (Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, United States)
Global Methods for Dissecting Translation
Discussion Leaders
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Rachel Green (Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, United States)
Speakers
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Shintaro Iwasaki (RIKEN, Japan)
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Gene Yeo (University of California, San Diego, United States)
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Zhe Ji (Northwestern University, United States)
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Jody Puglisi (Stanford University, United States)
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Liana Lareau (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
Molecular Snapshots of Translation
Discussion Leaders
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Alan Hinnebusch (National Institutes of Health, United States)
Speakers
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Julia Mahamid (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany)
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Mofang Liu (Mofang Liu, PI, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS, China)
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Maria Barna (Stanford University, United States)
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
Organizers
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Haissi Cui (University of Toronto, Canada)
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Christopher Nicchitta (Duke University School of Medicine, United States)