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ABOUT

The conference series Frankfurt Conference on Quality Control in Life Processes was launched in Frankfurt in 2016 and aims at bringing together scientists at all career levels to discuss mechanisms of cellular homeostasis and their influence on the pathogenesis of diseases.

The fourth meeting will take place in March 2025 and aims to accelerate our understanding of quality control pathways and their interconnectivity and to utilize this knowledge for the improved treatment of human diseases. It will feature interdisciplinary sessions that cover topics including quality control mechanisms and networks, the interplay between autophagy and ubiquitin in health and disease and emerging therapeutics utilising the ubiquitin system.

SPEAKERS

Andrea Ablasser

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH

Florian Bassermann

Technical University of Munich, DE

Anne Bertolotti

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK

Sagar Bhogaraju

EMBL Grenoble, FR

Aaron Ciechanover

Technion, IS

Alessio Ciulli

University of Dundee, UK

Elena Conti

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, DE

Danette Daniels

Foghorn Therapeutics, US

Elke Deuerling

Konstanz University, DE

Vishva Dixit

Genentech, US

Zvulun Elazar

Weizmann Institute of Science, IS

Judith Frydman

Stanford University, US

Ana García-Sáez

Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, DE

Michael N. Hall

University of Basel, CH

Wade Harper

Harvard Medical School, US

F.-Ulrich Hartl

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, DE

Volker Haucke

Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, DE

Erika Holzbaur

University of Pennsylvania, US

Claudio Joazeiro

Heidelberg University, DE

Ron Kopito

Stanford University, US

Dimitri Krainc

Northwestern University, US

Michael Lazarou

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, AU

Sascha Martens

Max Perutz Labs, AT

Gerry Melino

Tor Vergata University of Rome, IT

Hemmo Meyer

University of Duisburg-Essen, DE

Dan Nomura

University of California, Berkeley, US

James Olzmann

University of California, Berkeley, US

Rushika Perera

University of California San Francisco, US

Michael Rape

University of California, Berkeley, US

Brenda Schulman

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, DE

Anne Simonsen

University of Oslo, NO

Nicolas Thomä

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH

Sharon Tooze

The Francis Crick Institute, UK

Henning Walczak

University of Cologne, DE

Georg Winter

CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine GmbH, AT

Roberto Zoncu

University of California, Berkeley, US

PROGRAM

March 24th

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Aaron Ciechanover

SESSION I: Ubiquitination and autophagy interplay in health and diseases

Wade Harper | Brenda Schulman | Zvulun Elazar | Sharon Tooze | Michael Rape

SESSION II: Organelles' quality control networks

Anne Simonsen | Michael Lazarou | Ron Kopito | James Olzmann | Sagar Bhogaraju

March 25th

Lysosome in biology and disease: SESSION III

Dimitri Krainc | Rushika Perera | Volker Haucke | Hemmo Meyer | Roberto Zoncu

RNA and protein quality control: SESSION IV

F.-Ulrich Hartl | Judith Frydman | Elena Conti

March 26th

SESSION V: Proteinopathies and neurodegeneration

Erika Holzbaur | Sascha Martens | Michael N. Hall | Anne Bertolotti | Peter Walter

SESSION VI: Emerging therapeutics utilising the ubiquitin system

Danette Daniels | Nicolas Thomä | Alessio Ciulli | Dan Nomura | Georg Winter

March 27th

Ubiquitin-autophagy networks in inflammation and cancer: SESSION VII

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Vishva Dixit

Registration

Registration is closed!

If you would like to be placed on the waiting list, please contact fcqc@uni-frankfurt.de.

CONFERENCE FEE
400 €

REGISTRATION DEADLINE
December 1st

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE
December 1st

PARTICIPANTS CHOSEN FOR A FLASH /
SELECTED TALK WILL BE NOTIFIED BY
January 31st

PAYMENT DEADLINE
February 15th

Registration includes:

access to all sessions
welcome dinner
coffee breaks
lunches and dinner during poster session II
use of public transport during the duration of the conference

Registration terms and conditions:

Notification of cancellation should be made in writing and sent to the conference organizer: FCQC@uni-frankfurt.de. For cancellation before 15th February 2025, an administration fee of €50 will apply. For cancellation after 15th February 2025, the full registration fee will apply, a refund of the registration fee will not be possible.

Registration fee waivers:

A limited number of registration fee waivers are available for participants. Applicants must justify the reasons for applying for a fee waiver when registering for the conference. Applicants do not need to apply separately for these but should indicate on the registration form if they wish to be considered. The selection of awardees is handled directly by the organizers.