Autophagy and Disease (J5)
December 3-6, 2023  | Keystone Resort, Keystone, CO, United States
Eric H. Baehrecke and Anastasia Henry
Scholarship Deadline: Aug. 30, 2023 | Abstract Deadline: Aug. 30, 2023 | Early Registration Deadline: Oct. 3, 2023
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 8 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Sunday, December 3, 2023
4:00–8:00 PM Arrival and Registration Shavano Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Shavano Foyer
Monday, December 4, 2023
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Red Cloud/Crestone
8:00–9:00 AM Welcome and Keynote Address (Joint) Torreys/Shavano Peak
  * Ivan Dikic, Goethe University Medical School
Session Chair
 
  Brenda A. Schulman, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Twists and Turns in Ubiquitin Conjugation Cascades
 
9:00–11:30 AM Ubiquitin in Regulation of Autophagy and Disease (Joint) Torreys/Shavano Peak
  * Kylie J. Walters, NCI, National Institutes of Health
Session Chair
 
  * Achim Werner, National Institutes of Health
Session Chair
 
  Michael Rape, University of California, Berkeley
Ubiquitin Ligases and Stress Responses
 
  Tyler Franklin, Oregon Health and Science University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Bacterial Mimicry of Eukaryotic HECT Ubiquitin Ligation
 
  Kylie J. Walters, NCI, National Institutes of Health
Proteasome Subunit Rpn13: Interactions, Activities and Therapeutic Opportunities
 
  Sonja Lorenz, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Short Talk: Short Talk: Structural Mechanism of the Ubiqutin Ligase HACE1
 
  Masaaki Komatsu, Juntendo University School of Medicine
p62-Ubiquitin Condensates: Formation, Physiology and Autophagic Degradation
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Shavano Foyer
11:30–1:00 PM Poster Setup Red Cloud/Crestone
11:30–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Red Cloud/Crestone
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable (Joint) Shavano Peak
  Carlos Castañeda, Syracuse University
Associate Professor
 
  Mary Lilly, National Institutes of Health
Senior Investigator
 
  Rupert Beale, The Francis Crick Institute
Clinical Group Leader
 
  Judith A. Ronau, AbbVie, Inc.
Senior Scientist II
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Shavano Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Biophysical and Novel Regulatory Mechanisms of Autophagy Shavano Peak
  * Sharon A. Tooze, Francis Crick Institute
Session Chair
 
  * Martin Graef, Cornell University
Session Chair
 
  Hong Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Decoding of ER Ca2+ Transients to Trigger the Assembly of Autophagosome Formation Sites on the ER
 
  Yang Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Short Talk: Short Talk: Structural Basis for Lipid Transfer by the ATG2A-ATG9A Complex
 
  Mondira Kundu, St. Jude Children's Hospital
ULK/Atg1 and its Interacting Partners in the Regulation of Biomolecular Condensates: Relevance to Disease
 
  Reuben J. Shaw, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Short Talk: Short Talk: AMPK and ULK1: Two Critical Kinases in Autophagy Initiation
 
  James H. Hurley, University of California, Berkeley
The Molecular Acrobatics of Autophagy Initiation
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Red Cloud/Crestone
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 1 Red Cloud/Crestone
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Red Cloud/Crestone
8:00–11:00 AM Lysosomal Biology and Damage in Autophagy and Disease Shavano Peak
  * Chris Shoemaker, Dartmouth College
Session Chair
 
  * Anne Simonsen, University of Oslo
Session Chair
 
  Anastasia Henry, Denali Therapeutics
Rab12 Regulates LRRK2 Activity and Recruitment to Damaged Lysosomes
 
  Sharon A. Tooze, Francis Crick Institute
Maintenance of Lysosome Integrity by ATG9A Effectors and PI4P
 
  Dan Baird, Casma Tx
Targeting Autophagy Initiation
 
  Mary Lilly, National Institutes of Health
Short Talk: Short Talk: The GATOR2 Complex Maintains Lysosomal-autophagic Function by Inhibiting MiT/TFEs Protein Degradation
 
  Vojo Deretic, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Membrane Atg8ylation During Infection
 
9:10–9:30 AM Coffee Break Shavano Foyer
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Red Cloud/Crestone
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Red Cloud/Crestone
2:30–4:30 PM Workshop Shavano Peak
  * Mondira Kundu, St. Jude Children's Hospital
Session Chair
 
  * Andreas Jenny, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Session Chair
 
  Louis R. Lapierre, Universite de Moncton
Location, Location, Location: Subcellular Protein Partitioning Modulates Proteostasis, Autophagy and Aging
 
  Graham J Ray, MIT
The Substrates of Lysosomal RNA Degradation and the RNases that Degrade Them
 
  Thabata L.A. Lopes Alberto Duque, University of New Mexico
Comparative Analysis of the Atg8ylation E3 Ligase ATG16L1 and a Candidate Alternative E3 Ligase ATG16L2 by Proximity Biotinylation Proteomics
 
  Ta-Chiang Liu, Washington University School of Medicine
Macrophage LRRK2 Hyperactivity Impairs Autophagy and Induces Paneth Cell Dysfunction and Intestinal Inflammation
 
  Guangyan Miao, UMASS Chan Medical School
Microglia are Key Executioners of Inflammation and Neuronal Cell Death Upon Mitochondrial Impairment in a Vps13D-deficient Mouse Model
 
  Massiel C. Stolla, University of Washington
Atg4a Promotes Mitochondrial Clearance and Hemoglobin Production in vivo
 
  Farzane Mirfakhar, Washington University in st louis
Cellular Cleanup Gone Awry: Tau Accumulates in Stem Cell Model of Tauopathy through Autophagy and Lysosomal Impairments
 
  Rupert Beale, The Francis Crick Institute
Dissipation of Proton Gradients Leads to Recruitment of ATG16L1
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Shavano Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Autophagy, Organelle Contact and Disease Shavano Peak
  * Herbert (Skip) W. Virgin, Washington University School of Medicine
Session Chair
 
  Alexandra Stolz, Goethe University Frankfurt
Session Chair
 
  Susan Ferro-Novick, University of California, San Diego
Autophagy Receptors Function at Distinct Endoplasmic Reticulum Domains
 
  Mengying Cui, Osaka University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Identification of a Novel Target of TFEB Essential to Maintain Both Mitochondrial and Lysosomal Homeostasis, Preventing Cellular Senescence
 
  Martin Graef, Cornell University
Autophagy Functions in Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Maintenance
 
  Jose M Delgado, Dartmouth College
Short Talk: The ER Membrane Protein Complex Governs Lysosomal Turnover of a Mitochondrial Tail-anchored Protein, BNIP3, to Restrict Mitophagy
 
  Eric H. Baehrecke, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Coordinated Selective Clearance of ER and Mitochondria
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Red Cloud/Crestone
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Red Cloud/Crestone
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Red Cloud/Crestone
8:00–8:45 AM Keynote Address (Joint) Torreys/Shavano Peak
  * Eric H. Baehrecke, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Session Chair
 
  J. Wade Harper, Harvard Medical School
Principles of Organelle Quality Control by Autophagy
 
8:45–11:15 AM Autophagy, Ubiquitin, Organelle Clearance and Disease (Joint) Torreys/Shavano Peak
  * Vojo Deretic, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Session Chair
 
  * Christina Towers, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Session Chair
 
  Sylvie Urbé, University of Liverpool
E3 Ligase and DUB Imposed Restrictions on Mitophagy
 
  Anne Simonsen, University of Oslo
Regulation of Mitophagy and Cellular Bioenergetics by Lipid-binding Proteins
 
  Alexandra Stolz, Goethe University Frankfurt
Short Talk: The Function of ER-phagy Receptors is Regulated through Phosphorylation-dependent Ubiquitination Pathways
 
  Philippa Rosewell, University of Dundee
Short Talk: Short Talk: Hexokinase II Catalytic Activity Regulates Mitophagy
 
  Richard J. Youle, NINDS, National Institutes of Health
STING Activation of LC3 Lipidation and Linear (M1) Ubiquitination in Innate Immune Signaling
 
9:15–9:35 AM Coffee Break Shavano Foyer
11:15–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Shavano Foyer
5:00–6:45 PM Autophagy in Cancer and Inflammatory Disease Shavano Peak
  * Anastasia Henry, Denali Therapeutics
Session Chair
 
  * Dan Baird, Casma Tx
Session Chair
 
  Eileen P. White, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Autophagy and Cancer
 
  Aditya Murthy, Gilead Sciences
Short Talk: Short Talk: Suppression of Anti-tumor Immunity in Colorectal Cancer by the Autophagy Gene ATG16L1
 
  Christina Towers, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Metabolic Adaptations to Autophagy Inhibition in Cancer
 
  Herbert (Skip) W. Virgin, Washington University School of Medicine
Autophagy and Infection
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Shavano Peak
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Red Cloud/Crestone
8:00–9:00 PM Trivia Shavano Peak
8:00–9:00 PM Cash Bar Red Cloud/Crestone
Thursday, December 7, 2023
7:00–11:59 PM Departure