We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Membrane Proteins: from Physiology to Pharmacology which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday April 14, and will conclude after lunch on Friday April 18, 2025.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Membrane Proteins. 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.

Major Topics:

1. Mechanosensation

2. Membrane proteins in immunology and physiology

4. Signal transduction   

5. Membrane-protein interactions

6. Organelle dynamics

7. Membrane proteins and disease

8. Drug discovery 

Keynote Speakers:

Hailan Hu, Zhejiang University

Eduardo Perozo, the University of Chicago

Invited Speakers:

Alessio Accardi, Weill Cornell Medicine

Roslynn Bill, Aston University

Sebastian Brauchi, Universidad Austral de Chile

Chunlai Chen, Tsinghua University

Hee-Jung Choi, Seoul National University

Charles Cox, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

Juan Du, Northwestern University

Stefan Feske, NYU Langone Health

Tian Hua, ShanghaiTech University

Karin Lindkvist, Lund University

Polina Lishko, Washington University School of Medicine

Wei Lu, NINDS, NIH Intramural Research Program

Arne Möller, Universität Osnabrück

Crina Nimigean, Weill Cornell Medicine

Xiaojing Pan, Tsinghua University

Renae Ryan, University of Sydney

Georgious Skiniotis, St Jude Children's Research Hospital

Xiaochen Wang, Southern University of Science and Technology

Yu Xia, Tsinghua University

Bailong Xiao, Tsinghua University

Atsuko Yamashita, Kyoto University

Nieng Yan, Tsinghua University, SMART

Edward Yu, Case Western Reserve University

Li Yu, Tsinghua University

Shujia Zhu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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 $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in April, 2025.