Protein Homeostasis in Health & Disease
Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center
September 26 - 30, 2011
Abstract Deadline: August 5, 2011

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Arranged by:
Richard Morimoto, Northwestern University, USA
Kazuhiro Nagata, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Chih-chen Wang, Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Protein Homeostasis in Health & Disease which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China. The conference will begin at 7:30pm on the evening of Monday September 26, and will conclude after lunch on Friday September 30, 2011.

This conference is similar in design to the famous Cold Spring Harbor meetings series, a program now in its 75th year. The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in protein homeostasis in health & disease research. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Topics:
-The Protein Folding Problem
-Protein Biogenesis and Sensing Proteotoxic Stress
-Protein Misfolding in Aging and Disease
-Proteostasis and Stress Responses
-Organellar Protein Homeostasis
-Clearance Mechanisms
-Therapeutic Strategies for Conformational Diseases


Keynote Speakers:
F. Ulrich Hartl, Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, GERMANY

Invited Speakers:
William Balch, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Anne Bertolotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Bernd Bukau, ZMBH, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Andrew Dillin, The Salk Institute, USA
Lila Gierasch, University of Massachusetts, USA
Aaron Gitler, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Carol Gross, University of California at San Francisco, USA
Manajit Hayer-Hartl, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
Koreaki Ito, Kyoto Sangyo University, JAPAN
Randal Kaufman, HHMI/University of Michigan, USA
Shalesh Kaushal, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Jeffery Kelly, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Kenji Kohno, Nara Institute of Science & Technology (NAIST), Japan
Gerardo Lederkremer, Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL
Liming Li, Northwestern University Medical School, USA
Richard Morimoto, Northwestern University, USA
Kazuhiro Nagata, Kyoto Sangyo University, JAPAN
Davis Ng, TEMASEK Life Sciences Laboratory / NUS, SINGAPORE
David Perlmutter, Children's Hospital of Pittsburg of UPMC, USA
Lei Wang, Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China
Jane Wu, Northwestern University, USA

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

Fellowship:
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $200-$500) awards. For more details, please visit Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in September 2011.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by:

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Please kindly note:

1. The early & normal price will be available if the full payment is finished before the exact due date.
For USD participants, we will automatically change your package price to the update one if we could not successfully charge the full payment from your registered credit card before the deadline.
For CNY participants, we will automatically change your package price to the update one if our bank account could not receive your full payment by wire transfer before the deadline.

2. For Student Package registered participants, please add your roommate requirement during the online registration. Otherwise, we’ll assign you a roommate among other student participants.

3. For late registrations, your housing & registration materials may not be guaranteed since the order is usually made in advance.

4. Please inform us your request on extra day (USD 75/CNY 500 per day) and food (vegetarian, kosher…etc.) during the online registration or email us as early as possible so that we could make relevant arrangement accordingly.

5.We offer CSHA endowed student package for graduate students (student ID is required). This special offer only includes the meeting session pass. Housing, food and social activities are not included in the package.

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