We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Cell Death & Metabolism 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 November 15, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on Thursday, and depart on Friday, November 19, 2027.

The conference will include seven oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Cell Death & Metabolism. 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. The Metabolic Heartbeat of Life and Death

2. Death in the Metabolic Lane

3. Organelle Decisions: Life or Death

4. Cell Death–Metabolism Crosstalk in Immunity and Inflammation

5. Therapeutic Targeting of Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Cell Death

6. Death Under Pressure and Emerging Modalities of Metabolic Cell Death 

7. Death in Context: Tissue Metabolism and Whole‑Body Fate

Keynote Speaker:

Junying Yuan, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS

Invited Speakers:

Siddharth Balachandran, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Thomas Brabletz, University Erlangen-Nuernberg

Dirk Brenner, Luxembourg Institute of Health

Navdeep Chandel, Northwestern University

Marcus Conrad, Helmholtz Zentrum München

Vishva  Dixit, Genentech, Inc.

Ana Garcia-Saez, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Sudan He, Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine

Gemma Kelly, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Mohamed Lamkanfi, Ghent University

Qun-Ying Lei, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College

Hozumi Motohashi, Tohoku University

Joseph Opferman, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Kate Schroder, University of Queensland

Feng Shao, National Institute of Biological Sciences

John Silke, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

M. Celeste Simon, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Andreas Strasser, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Liming Sun, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS

Stephen Tait, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute

Jessalyn Ubellacker, Harvard School of Public Health

Henning Walczak, University of Cologne/University College London

Xiaodong Wang, National Institute of Biological Sciences

Daichao Xu, Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, CAS

Yilong Zou, Westlake University

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 November, 2027.