"Life in Flux: The Science of Autophagy"

October 6, 2026
8am - 4pm
at the Hanover Inn, Hanover, NH

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Registration opens Summer 2026

Symposium and poster session details to come

Symposium Chairs:

• Chris Shoemaker, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
• Mike Ragusa, Associate Professor of Chemistry

Speakers:

• Eric Baehrecke, PhD, UMass Chan Medical School
• Erika Holzbaur, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
• Jim Hurley, UC Berkeley
• Sharon Tooze, The Francis Crick Institute, London

2024 Sensing the World

2023 Engineering Immunity: Building from Molecules to Therapies

2019 Biological Insights Through OMICs

2018 Cell Polarity Across the Diversity of Life

2017 Structural and Molecular Mechanisms of Host-Pathogen Interactions

2015 Signal Transduction in Development and Disease

2014 Look and Learn: How Microbes Teach Us About Cell Biology

2013 Dynamic Cellular Architecture: The Cytoskeleton in Form and Function

2012 Alternative Protein Confirmation in Biology and Disease

2007 Truth or Consequences: The Immunology of Human Disease

2006 Lights, Camera, Action! Visualizing Dynamic Cellular Events

2005 Mechanisms of Brain Disorders

2004 Angiogenesis: Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Reality

2003 Pumps and Channels: Membrane Proteins in Health and Disease

2002 Proteomics and Genomics in Biology and Medicine

2001 Lipids and Membrane Trafficking: Crossroad in Health and Disease

2000 Circadian Rhythms: The Time of Your Life

1999 The Nucleus: Journey to the Center of the Cell

1998 Microbes Rule the World

1997 Dartmouth Medical School Bicentennial Symposium

1996 Regulation of Gene Expression

1995 Signaling: From the Cell Surface to the Cell Cycle

1994 Mechanisms of Development

1993 Protein Targeting and Trafficking