We’re excited to welcome you to the WIA 7th Annual Symposium Webinar this Monday and Tuesday!

Join us for exciting trainee talks and keynotes by Dr. Katja Simon and Dr. Fulvio Reggiori!

See the attached program. All times are EDT (New York time).

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We are also excited to introduce next year’s 8th Annual WIA Symposium Webinar! Stay tuned for more upcoming details on our website (womeninautophagy.com) and register to be a volunteer if you are interested! 👇forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Response…

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As we conclude this year’s symposium, we thank all participants for your abstracts, presentations, and engagement over two days.

Congratulations to this year’s award winners! We celebrate your research and wish you continued success in your scientific endeavors!

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Next, we are excited to have Dr. Fulvio Reggiori, our second keynote speaker for this year’s symposium!

Dr. Fulvio Reggiori willl be presenting “Insights into the molecular mechanism of autophagosome formation: Lessons from yeast”.

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Up next, we will have 4 different sessions of Flash Talks featuring different topics in Autophagy!

Please refer to the booklet to join your session(s) of interests!

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Last but not least for this session, we welcome Ahmed Elshazly from Virgina Commonwealth University, presenting his work on “AUTAC-mediated selective autophagy uncouples MCL1-targeted antitumor activity from cardiotoxicity”.

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Up next, we have Theresah Nana Ama Mensah from Georgia State University, US, presenting her work on “NEDD4 family E3 ubiquitin ligase Rps5 regulates autophagy of lipid droplets in yeast”.

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Up next, we have Dr. Shujun Cai from Southern University of Science and Technology, China, presenting her work on “In situ cryo-ET of developmentally programmed mitophagy reveals ER-phagophore membrane continuity”.

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Up next, we have Malena Herrera Lopez from CEMIC, Argentina, presenting her work on “Characterization and functional role of circulating VMP1-positive extracellular vesicles in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma”.

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We are excited to start our Trainee Talk Session II!

First, we have Dr. Urmi Bandyopadhyay from MIRM, MAHE, India, presenting her work on “Autophagy lysosomal pathway dependent adaptive cellular remodeling hanging in amino acid homeostatic balance”.

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Now on LIVE!

We start our second day by having Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo reporting on past and current WIA activities.

Another exciting day of science discoveries and discussions! Come and join us!

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We're also grateful to the many teams and committees that keep WIA running!

Today, we celebrate your efforts to keep our community thrive through scientific collaboration, mentorship, a stronger global network, and advances in autophagy research!

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We’re excited to welcome you to Day 2 of the WIA 7th Annual Symposium Webinar, starting in less than 4 hours at 19:00 EDT!

Before we begin, a special shoutout to our 2026 WIA Annual Symposium Committee for their hard work in putting together this year’s program!

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And that’s a wrap for Day 1 of our WIA 7th Annual Symposium Webinar! We look forward to having you again tomorrow on our Day 2 of the Symposium, starting at 19:00 EDT (New York time)!

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Up next, we will have 4 different sessions of Flash Talk featuring different topics in Autophagy!

Please refer to the booklet to join your session(s) of interests!

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Last but not least for Trainee Talks Session 1, we are excited to have Joséphine Cherrière from University of Fribourg, presenting her work on New Approaches to Screen for Novel Direct mTORC1 targets.

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Up next, we are excited to have Anna Dahlström from Abo Akademi University, presenting her work on Dredd-mediated cleavage of Kenny uncouples the IKK complex from selective autophagy to enable innate immunity.
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Up next, we are excited to have Saumya Bhatt from University of Nebraska Medical Center, presenting her work on cAMP signaling promotes acute lysosome biogenesis through TFEB nuclear import-export dynamics.

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Up next, we are excited to have Dr. Suzanne Dufresne from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, presenting her work on Leveraging Autophagy and Pyrimidine Metabolism to target Pancreatic Cancer.
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We are excited to start our Trainee Talk Session!

First, we have Dr. Nami McCarty from UT-Health Houston presenting her work on how AMC-F1 regulates mitochondria-autophagy crosstalk independent of nutrient stress.

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