Suzhou，China

April 18-22，2016

Abstract deadline：February 5，2016

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

We are pleased to announce the 1st 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 on the evening of Monday April 18，and will conclude after lunch on April 22，2016.

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. 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 Unité944，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

Pengbo Zhou，Cornell 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 $100-$500）awards. For more details，please visit http://www.csh-asia.org/stipends.html

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in April，2016.