2027 Agenda Protein Aggregation
Preliminary Agenda
Day 1: Monday July 19, 2027
| Time | Event |
| 07:00 - 12:00 | Name Badge Pickup |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast |
| 08:30 - 08:45 | Welcome and Introduction to the Keynote, Chairs, Sandra Encalada, Scripps Research and Carlo Condello, UCSF |
| 08:45 - 09:45 | Keynote Speaker 1 |
| 09:45 - 12:00 | Session 1: Functional Amyloids |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Meredith Jackerel, Wash U, St. Louis |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Niha Jain, IIT India |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Raz Jelinek, Ben-Gurion University |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Short Talk |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Session 2: Structure and Composition of Amyoids Across Scales |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Lorena Saelices, UT Southwestern |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Ruben Fernandez Busnadiego, U. Gottingen |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, MRC Cambridge |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Short Talk |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Lightning Talks |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Free time |
| 17:00 - 19:30 | Poster Session #1 |
| 19:30 - 20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Welcome Reception & Social Hour |
Day 2: Tuesday July 20, 2027
| Time | Event |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast |
| 07:30 - 10:15 | Session 3: Mechanisms of Protein Assembly in Disease |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | TBD |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | TBD |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Matthew Shoulders, MIT |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Short Talk |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Session 4: Graduate Student & Postdoc Featured Talks |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | TBD |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | TBD |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | TBD |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | TBD |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Lightning Talks |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Career Development Workshop |
| 15:00 - 16:45 | Session 5: Phase Transitions and Protein-RNA Coupling from Origin of Life to Disease |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Rohit Pappu, Washington University |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | TBD |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Priya Banerjee, University of Buffalo |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Short Talk |
| 16:45 - 19:30 | Poster Session #2 |
| 19:30 - 21:00 | Dinner |
Day 3: Wednesday July 21, 2027
| Time | Event |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast |
| 08:30 - 10:15 | Session 6: Emerging Experimental Technologies for Studying Protein Aggregation in Complex Environments |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | TBD |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | TBD |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Steve Finkbeiner, Gladstone Institutes |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Short Talk |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Session 7: Towards Conformation-Specific Diagnostics & Therapeutics |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Jacob Ayers, UCSF |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Gabor Kovacs, University of Toronto |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Sarah Shahmoradian, UT Southwestern |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Short Talk |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Lightning Talks |
| 12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch and Meet the Experts |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Panel Discussion on the Future of Protein Aggregation. |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Free Time |
| 17:00 - 19:30 | Poster Session #3 |
| 19:30 - 18:30 | Dinner |
Day 4: Thursday July 22, 2027
| Time | Event |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast |
| 08:30 - 10:15 | Session 8: Computational and AI Methods in Protein Aggregation |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Georg Meisl, University of Cambridge |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | TBD |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Joost Schymkowitz, KU Leuven |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Short Talk |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Keynote Speaker 2, Jason Gestwicki, UCSF |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Group Photo |
| 12:00 - 14:30 | Lunch and Meet the Experts |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Business Meeting |
| 15:30 - 17:30 | Session 9: Proteostasis and Protein Quality Control |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Ehud Cohen, Hebrew University |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Débora Foguel, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Thorston Hoppe, University of Cologne |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Short Talk |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Closing Statement |
| 19:30 - 18:30 | Dinner |
| 18:30 - 21:00 | Party |