Session topics
- Chromogranins – Chairs Sushil Mahata and Nitish Mahapatra
- Mechanisms of membrane fusion – Chair Ira Milosevic
- Nanoscale organization of the fusion pore – Chair Manfred Lindau
- Secretory vesicles – Chair Ricardo Borges
- Emerging nano biotechnologies – Chairs Dekel Rosenfeld and Valentina Carabelli
- Ion channels and secretion – Chairs Emilio Carbone and Paul Kammermeier
- Synaptic transmission – Chair Meyer Jackson
- Aquaporin 4 vesicle dynamics in health and disease – Chair Robert Zorec
- The PACAP neuropeptide and secretion – Chair Sarah Gray
- Granule biogenesis and trafficking – Chair Michael Ailion
- Membrane fission/endocytosis – Chair Ling-Gang Wu
- Dense core vesicle exocytosis – Chair Matt Brody
- SNAREopathies – Chair Jacqueline Burre
- Intracellular trafficking – Chair Rajesh Ramachandran
- Plenary speakers: James Rothman, Lukas Tamm, Nathalie Guerineau, Robert Edwards and Ling-Gang Wu
Schedule
Sunday, July 13
- 13:30: Check In and dinner on your own
- 18:00: Introduction and opening session
- 20:00: Reception (location TBD)
Monday, July 14
- 9:00: Plenary talk
- 10:00: Morning session
- 11:00: Coffee break
- 11:30: Mid-morning session
- 12:30: Lunch + posters
- 14:00: Parallel sessions
- 16:00: Coffee break
- 16:30: Evening session
- 17:30: Dinner on your own and free time
Tuesday, July 15
- 9:00: Plenary talk
- 10:00: Morning session
- 11:00: Coffee break
- 11:30: Mid-morning session
- 12:30: Lunch + posters
- 14:00: Excursion (TBD)
- 18:00: Parallel sessions
- 20:00: Dinner on your own and free time
Wednesday, July 16
- 9:00: Plenary talk
- 10:00: Morning session
- 11:00: Coffee break
- 11:30: Mid-morning session
- 12:30: Lunch + posters
- 14:00: Parallel sessions
- 16:00: Coffee break
- 16:30: Evening session
- 17:30: Wine/cheese + posters
- 19:00: Dinner on your own and free time
Thursday, July 17
- 9:00: Plenary talk
- 10:00: Morning session
- 11:00: Coffee break
- 11:30: Mid-morning session
- 12:30: Lunch + posters
- 14:00: Excursion (TBD)
- 16:30: First evening session
- 17:30: Coffee break
- 18:00: Second evening session
- 19:00: Banquet dinner
Friday, July 18
- 9:00: Depart
Speakers
- Andrew Frank, University of Iowa
- Anne Moscona, Columbia University
- Ann-Sofie Cans, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- Ege Kavalali, Vanderbilt University
- Elizabeth Seward, University of Sheffield, UK
- Emilio Carbone, University of Turin, Italy
- Emilyn Alejandro, University of Minnesota
- Geert van den Bogaart, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Geoffrey Pitt, Weill-Cornell Medical College
- Heidi Hamm, Vanderbilt University
- Ira Milosevic, MIA-Portugal & Oxford University, UK
- Jacqueline Burre, Weill-Cornell Medical College
- James Rothman (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2013), Yale University
- Jefferson Knight, University of Colorado, Denver
- Jenny Hinshaw, NIH
- Jeremy Dittman, Weill-Cornell Medical College
- Jihong Bai, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute
- Joshua Zimmerberg, NIH
- Kathy Engisch, Wright State University
- Kevin Currie, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
- Kiel Ormerod, University of Toledo
- Lee Eiden, NIH
- Ling-Gang Wu, NIH
- Luis Miguel Gutierrez, Universitas Miguel Hernandez, Spain
- Lukas Tamm, University of Virginia
- Makaia Papasergi-Scott, University of Rochester
- Manfred Lindau, University of Miami
- Manu Sharma, Weill-Cornell Medical College
- Matt Brody, University of Michigan
- Meyer Jackson, University of Wisconsin
- Michael Ailion, University of Washington
- Michael Cousin, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Nathalie Guerineau, University of Montpellier, France
- Nicolas Vitale, University of Strasbourg, France
- Nitish Mahapatra, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
- Peter Arvan, University of Michigan
- Ricardo Borges, University of La Laguna, Spain
- Robert Edwards, University of California, San Francisco
- Robert Zorec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Ruth Heidelberger, UT Houston Medical School
- Sarah Gray, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
- Sebastian Barg, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Shyam Krishnakumar, Yale University
- Skyler Jackman, Vollum Institute
- Sushil Mahata, University of California, San Diego
- Teresa Pasqua, University of Calabria, Italy
- Tijana Ivanovic, NIH
- Tina Lee, Carnegie Mellon University
- Uri Ashery, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Ute Becherer, University of Saarland, Germany
- Valentina Carabelli, University of Turin, Italy
- Vitaly Klyachko, Washington University in St. Louis
- Volker Kiessling, University of Virginia
- Walther Mothes, Yale University
- Yongsoo Park, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar