Newswise — The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) will host the 2018 ASCB|EMBO Meeting in sunny San Diego, CA from Saturday, December 8th through Wednesday, December 12th. This is the 58th meeting of the ASCB and the second year for this collaboration between the Society and EMBO. The gathering, which will fill the San Diego Convention Center, is expected to attract more than 6,000 cell scientists from across the world. Every day of the meeting is packed with opportunities to learn from and network with the world's leading cell biologists.
This year’s meeting was organized by co-chairs Thomas Langer of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biology of Aging, Cologne, Germany and Samara Reck-Peterson of the University of California, San Diego/HHMI. It features eight symposia topics that focus on the forefront of modern cell biology: Nuclear Organization, Cell Migration, Neuronal Cell Biology, Cytoskeletal Dynamics, Metabolism, Regeneration and Morphogenesis, Organelle Communication, and Quality Control. The 23 Minisymposia and 18 Microsymposia seek to cover the entire gamut of scientific interests of the ASCB|EMBO community.
A signature feature of ASCB meetings are the 26 member-organized Special Interest Subgroups that will begin on Saturday and occur throughout the meeting. These include, for example, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz (Janelia Research Campus and HHMI) and Thoru Pederson (University of Massachusetts Medical School) will run a subgroup on "Physics and the Cell: 2018 and Beyond” to highlight a major frontier in cell biology. Bob Goldstein (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Mansi Srivastava (Harvard University) will chair the subgroup on “Emerging Model Systems,” which has become an important new area in modern cell biology as techniques that have been developed in traditional model systems are being applied to organisms that were previously less tractable.
Also on Saturday, the third annual ASCB Doorstep Meeting, organized by Elaine Fuchs (Rockefeller University and HHMI) and Sean Morrison (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and HHMI), will focus on stem cells. This small meeting, limited to 200 seats, features its own poster session and has a separate registration from the main ASCB|EMBO meeting. Titled "Beyond Homeostasis: Stem Cells Under Stress,” the Doorstep Meeting will culminate in the ASCB|EMBO Keynote Lecture by Sean Morrison, “Niches for Stem Cells in Bone Marrow,” which is open to all.
The theme of stem cells will continue to be a thread throughout the 2018 meeting with a symposium on “Regeneration and Morphogenesis,” minisymposia on “The Biology of Stem Cells” and “Stem Cells and Organoids,” and a subgroup meeting on “New Tools and Resources for Studies of Stem Cell Biology.”
Attendees can participate in three scientific workshops, which provide in-depth technical insights on emerging techniques and tools for modern cell biology. This year will feature “New Fluorescent Probes and High-Throughput Imaging Approaches” organized by Brenda Andrews (University of Toronto) and Luke Lavis (Janelia and HHMI), “Screening Approaches in Human Cells and CRISPR Methods” organized by Manuel Leonetti (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub) and Martin Kampmann (University of California, San Francisco), and “Electron Cryo-Tomography and Correlated Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM)” organized by Wanda Kukulski (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) and Martin Pilhofer (ETH Zurich).
The meeting features several award lectures designed to recognize outstanding contributors in the discipline of cell biology. Some of this year’s awards and awardees include ASCB's E.E. Just Award to Guillermina Lozano (MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas), the Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education to Erin Dolan (University of Georgia), the E.B. Wilson Medal to Barbara Meyer (University of California, Berkeley, and HHMI), the Porter Lecturer to Ruth Lehmann (Skirball Institute, New York University School of Medicine and HHMI), the Porter Prizes for Research Excellence to Andrew Moore (HHMI Janelia Research Campus) and Melanie White (A*STAR), the EMBO Gold Medal to Marek Basler (Biozentrum at the University of Basel, Switzerland) and Melina Schuh (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany), the Jeantet Prize Lectures to Christer Betsholtz (Karolinska Institute, and Uppsala University, Sweden) and Antonio Lanzavecchia (Institute for Research in Biomedicine and Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland), and ASCB's Women in Cell Biology awards.
Attendees enjoy a full schedule of career enhancement programming, an industry exhibitor's hall, which includes tech talks and product launches, and more than 2,700 poster presentations. As in recent years, the exhibitor and poster presenters will be interspersed, enhancing the flow between cutting-edge research and state-of-the-art industry.
There are also satellite events associated with the meeting. ASCB, in partnership with the Keck Graduate Institute, will sponsor the “Biotech Mini-Course,” a daylong course for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows aimed at helping basic scientists be competitive for jobs in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. Also on the Friday before the meeting, ASCB, in partnership with the 4D Nucleome group funded by the NIH Common Fund, will run a full-day meeting, the goals of which are to develop and apply approaches to map chromatin structure and dynamics.
To register for the 2018 ASCB|EMBO Meeting, go to https://ascb-embo2018.ascb.org/registrationinformation/
To register for the 2018 Doorstep Meeting, go to https://ascb-embo2018.ascb.org/doorstep/
To register for the 2018 one-day Biotech Mini-Course, go to https://www.ascb.org/biotech-mini-course/
To register for the other satellite events, go to https://ascb-embo2018.ascb.org/satellite/
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