Dear Colleagues, dear “Autophagists”,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the THIRD SWISS AUTOPHAGY WORKSHOP on Friday, September 16th, 2022, in Lausanne (Department of Fundamental Neurosciences) organized by the LS2 Section Autophagy.
The LS2 Swiss Autophagy workshop 2022 is an interactive workshop allowing Swiss doctoral students, young post-docs and junior group leaders to meet, to learn and discuss research on autophagy. The main purpose of this workshop is 1) to introduce and explain the basics of good autophagy research to doctoral students/post-docs as well as researchers who wish to do new research on autophagy, 2) to allow doctoral students, young post-docs and junior group leaders to present and discuss their research results in front of experts in the field, and 3) to promote exchanges and discussions around new techniques recently developed to study the autophagy.
This workshop will thus make it possible to facilitate the access of young scientists to the "autophagy scientific community", to broaden their understanding of current research priorities and problems, and finally to broaden their knowledge in general. Young researchers will thus be able to exchange ideas, skills and create new scientific connections in an informal setting.
This ONE-DAY event will include two keynote lectures, talks, short talks, flash talks and a poster session, as well as lots of opportunities to discuss autophagy, exchange autophagy protocols and network.
We chose “Autophagy in health and disease” as a main topic for this workshop, because we wanted to offer the possibility of discussing not only the roles of autophagy in health but also in pathological conditions. We expect 50-75 participants from Switzerland, including a high percentage of young scientists eager to catch up on the latest autophagy models and research.
Covid-19 restrictions: We are currently planning an onsite meeting. We reserved a seminar room big enough to host more than 100 people to meet in person under the current
We are convinced that this third Swiss Autophagy Workshop will allow for fruitful exchange of ideas, data and reagents among Swiss researchers interested in autophagy.
Moreover, we will gather for the LS2 section autophagy member meeting to discuss past and future actions of our section and to officially announce the new presidency.
Hope to see you in September in Lausanne!
The organizers
Vassiliki Nikoletopoulou & Julien Puyal (University of Lausanne)
