Meeting Program

 

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Organizers:

Graciana Diez Roux, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, IT

Chiara Di Malta, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, IT

Gennaro Napolitano, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, IT

Carmine Settembre, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, IT


Confirmed speakers:

Monther Abu-Remaileh, Stanford University, US

Alberto Auricchio, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, IT

Juan Bonifacino, National Institutes of Health, US

Thomas Braulke, University Medical Center Hamburg, DE

Francesco Cecconi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, IT

Antonella De Matteis, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, IT

PierPaolo Di Fiore, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, IT

Chiara Di Malta, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, IT

Ivan Dikic, Goethe University Frankfurt, DE

Alejo Efeyan, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, SP

Volker Haucke, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie Berlin, DE

Elizabeth Henske, Harvard Medical School, US

Lukas Huber, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, AT

James Hurley, University of California, Berkeley, US

Judith Klumperman, University Medical Center Utrecht, NL

Gennaro Napolitano, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, IT

Mario Pende, Institut Necker Enfants Malades, FR

Rushika Perera, University of California, San Francisco, US

Frances Platt, University of Oxford, UK

Paul Saftig, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, DE

Carmine Settembre,Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, IT

Meng Wang, Baylor College of Medicine, US

Marino Zerial, Human Technopole, IT

Huda Zoghbi, Baylor College of Medicine, US

Roberto Zoncu, University of California, Berkeley, US


Scientific Program

September 19th, 2024

14:00 - 14:30     Registration

14:30 - 15:00     Meeting Opening - Welcome

Lysosome biogenesis and function - Chair: Chiara Di Malta and Ivan Dikic

15:00 – 15:30     Juan Bonifacino

Mechanisms of axon dysfunction in lysosome-transport disorders

15:30 – 16:00     Judith Klumperman

The HOPS complex: integrating lysosomal trafficking pathways

16:00 – 16:30     Paul Saftig

What did we learn from research on lysosomal membrane proteins?


16:30 – 16:45     Coffee break


16:45 – 17:15     Antonella De Matteis 

A PIPeline for drug discovery in Lowe Syndrome

17:15 – 17:45     Thomas Braulke 

Golgi-regulated homeostasis of lysosomes

17:45 – 18:00     Friederike Zunke 

Structure-function analyses of ß-glucocerebrosidase (GCase) and LIMP-2: implications for novel treatment strategies in Gaucher's and Parkinson's disease (short talk selected from submitted abstracts)


 

September 20th, 2024

Lysosomal signalling - Chair: Judith Klumperman and Paul Saftig

09:00 – 09:30     Roberto Zoncu 

Decoding lysosomal nutrient signaling in cellular growth and repair

09:30 – 10:00     Meng Wang 

Lysosomal signals in aging and longevity

10:00 – 10:30     James Hurley 

Structural insights into canonical and non-canonical mTORC1 signaling at lysosomes

 

10:30 – 10:50     Coffee break

 

10:50 – 11:20     Volker Haucke 

Lipid switches in cell physiology: from nutrient signals to disease

11:20 – 11:50     Lukas Huber 

LAMTOR: coordinating protein complex dynamics for lysosomal signaling

11:50 – 12:20     Gennaro Napolitano 

Selective modulation of mTORC1 signaling

12:20 – 12:35     Zhicheng Cui 

Structural basis for mTORC1 phosphorylation of non-canonical and canonical substrates (short talk selected from submitted abstracts)

12:35 – 12:50     Dominic Winter 

Alterations in lipid homeostasis affect ragulator-mediated lysosomal positioning (short talk selected from submitted abstracts)

 

12:50 – 14:50     Lunch and Poster Session

 

14:50 – 15:30     Keynote Speaker: Huda Zoghbi 

Pathogenesis studies of neurodegenerative diseases: the rare informs the common 

 

 

Lysosome and cancer - Chair: Rushika Perera and Roberto Zoncu

15:30 – 16:00     Alejo Efeyan 

Cell-autonomous vs. paracrine effects of the RagC-mTORC1 axis in cancer and aging

16:00 – 16:30    Chiara Di Malta 

Lysosomal deregulation in MiT/TFE-associated cancer

 

16:30 – 16:50     Coffee break

 

16:50 – 17:20     Mario Pende 

Canonical mTOR signaling in Tuberous Sclerosis and senescence

17:20 – 17:50     Elizabeth Henske 

Lysosomes in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: innocent bystanders or tumor drivers?

17:50 – 18:20     Marino Zerial 

Role of forces in membrane dynamics and tissue morphogenesis

18:20 – 18:35     Alessia Calcagnì 

A 'multifocal' Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) mouse model to study kidney cystogenesis and tumorigenesis pathways (short talk selected from submitted abstracts)

19:00 - 20:00     Toast and Light Dinner


 

September 21st, 2024

Autophagy and Endocytosis - Chair: Elizabeth Henske and Gennaro Napolitano

09:00 – 9:30     PierPaolo Di Fiore 

Endocytosis and cancer

9:30 – 10:00     Rushika Perera 

Lysosomal lipid regulation in pancreatic cancer

10:00 – 10:30     Francesco Cecconi 

Novel forms of selective autophagy and disease: when organelle catabolism meets biomedicine

 

10:30 – 10:50     Coffee break

 

10:50 – 11:20     Carmine Settembre 

Substrate selectivity during bulk autophagy

11:20 – 11:50     Ivan Dikic 

Tumor immune evasion through IRGQ-directed autophagy

11:50 – 12:05     Alison Forrester 

Desialylation controls glycolipid-lectin driven formation of clathrin-independent carriers (short talk selected from submitted abstracts)

12:05 – 12:20     Gabriele Zaffagnini 

How endolysosomal super-organelles manage protein aggregation in mammalian oocytes (short talk selected from submitted abstracts)

 

12:20 – 14:00     Lunch and Poster Session

 

Session 2: Lysosomal Storage Diseases - Chair: Huda Zoghbi and Carmine Settembre

14:00 – 14:30     Monther Abu-Remaileh 

A cell-type lysosomal protein Atlas in the brain identifies a novel neuronal lysosomal storage disease

14:30 – 15:00     Frances Platt 

Understanding and treating Niemann-Pick disease type C

 

15:00 – 15:20    Coffee break

 

15:20 – 15:50     Alberto Auricchio 

ExpEditing AAV gene therapy

15:50 – 16:05     Stefania Crippa 

An innovative platform approach for the parallel development of HSPC-GT for rare/ultra-rare lysosomal storage disorders with severe skeletal manifestations (short talk selected from submitted abstracts)

16:05 – 16:20     Philipp Alberts 

Discovery of a novel Niemann Pick type C (NPC) disease modifier and development towards its clinical application (short talk selected from submitted abstracts)

16:30     Closing remarks