Ubiquitin Family, Autophagy & Diseases

Organized by: Ivan Dikic, Goethe University Medical School, Germany Jianping Jin, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA Xiaobo Qiu, Beijing Normal University, China Keiji Tanaka, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan Li Yu, Tsinghua University, China Abstract deadline:February 5, 2016 Major Topics: 1. Conjugation systems for ubiquitin 2. Autophagy networks 3. Removal of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins 4. Proteasome: Insight functions and physiology 5. Ubiquitin and selective autophagy 6. Regulation by ubiquitin-like proteins 7. Ubiquitin, ubiquitin-like,and human diseases 8. Autophagy and human diseases Keynote Speakers: Alfred L. Goldberg, Harvard Medical School, USA Tamotsu Yoshimori, Osaka University, JAPAN Invited Speakers: Quan Chen, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA Chin Ha Chung, Seoul National University, SOUTH KOREA Ana Maria Cuervo, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA Hugues de Thé, INSERM Unité 944, FRANCE Ivan Dikic, Goethe University Medical School, GERMANY Daniel Finley, Harvard Medical School, USA Ronggui Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, CHINA Jianping Jin, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA Masaaki Komatsu, Niigata University, JAPAN Sharad Kumar, University of South Australia, AUSTRALIA Yong Tae Kwon,Seoul National University, SOUTH KOREA Maria G. Masucci, Karolinska Institutet, SWEDEN Shigeo Murata, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN Xiao-Bo Qiu, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, CHINA Thomas Sommer, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, GERMANY Keiji Tanaka, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, JAPAN Sharon Tooze, London Research Institute, UK Yong Wan, University of Pittsburgh, USA Dieter A. Wolf, Xiamen University, CHINA Qi Xie, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, CHINA Richard Youle, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH,USA Li Yu, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, CHINA Junying Yuan, Harvard Medical School, USA Qimin Zhan, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, CHINA Hong Zhang, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA