title: A report from the EMBO conference on autophagy.
abstract: The first EMBO conference on "Autophagy, Cell Biology, Physiology and Pathology" was held October 17-21, 2009 at the Centro Stefano Franscini of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The meeting organizers, Drs. Matthias Peter, Claudine Kraft and Fulvio Reggiori, invited a range of interesting speakers and the poster sessions also proved valuable. I will not attempt to summarize the entire meeting; however, one of my goals with Autophagy is to build and strengthen the community of researchers in this field. Accordingly, I am highlighting a small subset of the presented talks, focusing on researchers either new to the field, or those we do not hear from routinely.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. klionsky@umich.edu
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Klionsky
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001343:Autophagy; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D004330:Drosophila / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000378:metabolism; D009410:Nerve Degeneration; D010588:Phagosomes / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D054875:Ubiquitination