We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Ubiquitin Family, Autophagy and Diseases which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm in the evening of Monday April 6, and will conclude after lunch on Friday April 10, 2026.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Ubiquitin Family. 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.Regulation by ubiquitin family proteins

2.Functions and physiology of autophagy

3.Protein degradation & proteasome: functions & regulation

4.Conjugation systems for ubiquitin & ubiquitin-like proteins

5.Removal of ubiquitin & ubiquitin-like proteins

6.Interplay between ubiquitin family & autophagy

7.Implications of Ubiquitin system, autophagy in diseases

8.PROTACs, Molecular Glues & other degradation technologies

Keynote Speakers:

Ning Zheng, University of Washington

Tamotsu Yoshimori, The University of Osaka 

Invited Speakers:

Zachary Carpenter, VantAI

Virginia De Cesare, University of Dundee

Ivan Dikic, Goethe University

Xin-Hua Feng, Zhejiang University

Xin Gu, Harvard Medical School

Maho Hamasaki, The University of Osaka

Jianping Jin, Zhejiang University

Claudio Joazeiro, Heidelberg University

David Komander, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Lei Liu, Tsinghua University

Yifat Merbl, Weizmann Institute of Science

Tanja Mittag, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Nobuo Noda, Hokkaido University

Xiaobo Qiu, China Pharmaceutical University&Beijing Normal University

Kristijan Ramadan, Nanyang Technological University

Feng Rao, Southern University of Science & Technology

Yasushi Saeki, The University of Tokyo

Brenda Schulman, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

Han-Ming Shen, University of Macau

Nicolas Thomä, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research

Sharon Tooze, The Francis Crick Institute

Helle Ulrich, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB)

Yong Wan, Emory University

Hsueh-Chi Yen, Academia Sinica

Hong Zhang, Institute of Biophysics, CAS

Min Zhuang, Shanghai Tech University

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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, 2026.