We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Molecular Mechanisms and Physiology of Unconventional Protein Secretion 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 19, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on Thursday, and depart on Friday, April 23, 2027.

The conference will include seven oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Unconventional Protein Secretion. 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.New technologies for membrane trafficking

2.Protein translocation in unconventional protein secretion

3.ER, Golgi, and endosomes in unconventional protein secretion

4.Autophagy and lysosome in unconventional protein secretion

5.Exosome biogenesis and secretion

6.Unconventional protein secretion in cell-cell communications

7.Unconventional protein secretion in health and disease

Keynote Speaker:

Volker Haucke, Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)

Randy Schekman, University of California, Berkeley

Invited Speakers:

Xiaofen Chen, Xiamen University

Katia Cosentino, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Jayanta Debnath, University of California San Francisco

Thierry Galli, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris

Liang Ge, Tsinghua University

Wei Guo, University of Pennsylvania

Susanne Herbst, University College London

Tiebang Kang, Sun Yat-Sen University 

Min Goo Lee, Yonsei University

Dong Li, Center for Biological Imaging, Institute of Biophysics, CAS

Sai Li, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences

Vivek Malhotra, Centre for Genomic Regulation

Walter Nickel, Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center

Seung-Yeol Park, Pohang University of Science and Technology

Steffen Scholp, University of Exeter

Hongyun Tang, Westlake University

Yosuke Togashi, Okayama University

Meng Wang, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus

Hao Wu, Harvard Medical School

Yihong Ye, Chinese Institute for Brain Research

Li Yu, State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology

Min Zhang, Tsinghua University

Chiara Zurzolo, Pasteur Institute

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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, 2027.