Dear Colleagues,
The LS2 Autophagy Workshop now has a new name - the Swiss Autophagy Meeting 2024!
The Swiss Autophagy Meeting 2024 is an interactive meeting 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 meeting 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 meeting 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 2-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. This years topic: “Emerging roles of autophagy: From cells to organisms”!
We expect many participants from Switzerland, including a high percentage of young scientists eager to catch up on the latest autophagy models and research. We are convinced that this third Swiss Autophagy Meeting will allow for a 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) & Patricia Boya (University of Fribourg)