Organizers:
Gensheng Feng, University of
California, San Diego, USA
David Moore, Baylor College of Medicine,
USA
Hongyang Wang, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital
/Institute of
Shanghai, China
We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Liver and Metabolic, Disease and Cancer which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday May 21, and will conclude after lunch on Friday, May 25, 2012. It will include a combination of oral sessions and poster sessions, covering the latest findings across many topics in liver metabolism, diseases and cancer biology by bringing together a group of scientific leaders.
Major Topics:
- Liver metabolism in
health and diseases
- Liver stem cells and liver cancer stem cells
- Liver
development and organogenesis
- Bile acid cycling and hepatic lipid
metabolism
- Liver injury and regeneration
- Liver fibrosis and
cirrhosis
- Liver, inflammation and cancer
- Liver cancer, clinic and
translational medicine
Keynote Speaker
Michael Karin,
University of California, San Diego, USA
Invited Speakers
Myles Axton, Nature
Genetics, USA
David Brenner, University of California, San Diego,
USA
Hueng-Sik Choi, Chonnam National University,
Korea
Jonathan Dranoff, University of Arkansas for the Medical
Sciences, USA
Gen-Sheng Feng, University of California, San Diego,
USA
Xinyuan Fu, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
Bin Gao, National Institutes of Health, USA
Linda
Greenbaum, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Sanjeev Gupta, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Subash Gupta, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, India
Lijian Hui, Shanghai
Institute for Biological Sciences, China
Randy Levinson, Nature
Medicine, USA
Christopher Liddle, The University of Sydney,
Australia
Atsushi Miyajima, University of Tokyo,
Japan
Satdarshan Monga, University of Pittsburgh, USA
David
Moore, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Irene Oi Lin Ng, The
University of Hong Kong, China
Erwin Wagner, Spanish National Cancer
Research Center, Spain
Hongyang Wang, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery
Hospital/Institute of Shanghai, China
Xinwei Wang, National
Institute of Health, USA
Morris White, Children's Hospital
Boston/Harvard Medical School, USA
Xiaohong Helena Yang, Cancer
Cell, Cell Press, USA
Yingzi Yang, National Institutes of Health,
USA
Jessica Zucman-Rossi, INSERM, France
Registration available until May
21, 2012
The on-line registration will be available until the
meeting starts. But early registration will help to save cost. Rates vary for
corporate/industry, academic (PhD, MD, staff scientists) and student (up to PhD)
attendees. Endowed student package costs as low as USD250/CNY1530 before March
9th, 2012.
Abstract Deadline Extended to March 30th,
2012
We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished
materials. Selection results for short talks (10-20) and poster presentations
will be made by the organizers on the basis of scientific merit and
relevance.
Fellowships of up to $500 (USD) are available to participants who have an abstract accepted for poster presentation.