Welcome

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the Membrane Trafficking and Organelle Biogenesis meeting (MTOB), which will be held in Pesaro, on the 4-5 April 2014.

The meeting will bring together experimental scientists to focus on recent advances in organelle structure, function and biogenesis, protein trafficking, exo-endocytosis, autophagy and lipid biology. The field is entering an exciting phase as insights on molecular mechanism are enhancing our understanding of important biological processes such as signal transduction, development, host-pathogen interactions and familial diseases.

As keynote invited speaker, we will host Prof. Anne Spang group leader at the Center for Molecular Life Sciences (Biozentrum, University of Basel CH). Her research aims to understand the basic principles of intracellular transport of both proteins and mRNA molecules and the link between altered transport pathways and diseases using yeast and earthworms as model organisms.

The setting of the conference has been chosen to provide a friendly environment to stimulate formal and informal discussion during the meeting sessions.

We hope that the meeting will provide a great opportunity to share new ideas, foster collaborations, and encourage young researchers in the field.

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you to Pesaro in April.

Paolo Remondelli
(Chair)

Sara Colombo
(vice-Chair)