We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Mitochondria and Metabolism in Health and Disease which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday October 13, and will conclude after lunch on Friday October 17, 2025.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in mitochondria biology. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Mitochondrial bioenergetics and metabolism

2. Mitochondrial dynamics

3. Mitochondrial contact sites

4. Mitochondrial quality control

5. Mechanistic basis of mitochondrial role in disease

6. Mitochondrial role in inflammation and immunity

7. Mitochondria in cell death

Keynote Speakers:

TBA

Invited Speakers:

Shin-ichi Arimura, University of Tokyo

Paolo Bernardi, University of Padova

Michelangelo Campanella, University of Padova

Silvia Campello, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Quan Chen, Nankai University

Nika Danial, Harvard Medical School

Pagliarini David, Washington University in St. Louis

Du Feng, Guangzhou Medical University

Laura Formentini, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Naotada Ishihara, Osaka University

Kaori Ishikawa, University of Tsukuba

Keiko Iwata, Wakayama Medical University

Xuejun Jiang, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Nora Kory, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Thomas Langer, University of Cologne

Xingguo Liu, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, CAS

Maria Mittelbrunn, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Kinya Otsu, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center

Gulcin Pekkurnaz, University of California San Diego

Lena Pernas, University of California Los Angeles

Hyun-Woo Rhee, Seoul National University

Luca Scorrano, University of Padova

Zhiyin Song, Wuhan University

Maria Eugenia Soriano, University of Padova

Ye Tian, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS

And more...

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in October, 2024.