First Virtual International Congress on Cellular and Organismal Stress Responses, November 5–6, 2020

摘要

Members of the Cell Stress Society International (CSSI), Patricija van Oosten-Hawle (University of Leeds, UK), Mehdi Mollapour (SUNY Upstate Medical University, USA), Andrew Truman (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) organized a new virtual meeting format which took place on November 5–6, 2020. The goal of this congress was to provide an international platform for scientists to exchange data and ideas among the Cell Stress and Chaperones community during the Covid-19 pandemic. Here we will highlight the summary of the meeting and acknowledge those who were honored by the CSSI. Keywords: CSSI Congress, Chaperones, Cancer biology, Heat shock proteins, Hsp70, Hsp90, Proteostasis, Stress responsesIntroductionResearch on chaperones and the stress response has continued despite the unprecedented disruptions caused by the COVID pandemic. This congress, held virtually in place of the usual Alexandria-Old Town meeting, was attended by over 300 people and brought together diverse speakers from all over the world. Topics of discussion were as varied as the stress response itself and ranged from talks on the fundamental properties of molecular chaperones to the relationship between the stress response and cancer. The program included 4 keynote speakers (Linda Hendershot, Harm Kampinga, Chris Prodromou, and Veena Prahlad) and 13 invited speakers. Larry Hightower (CSSI Founding President) and the principal organizers (Patricija van Oosten-Hawle, Andrew Truman, and Mehdi Mollapour) opened the meeting and introduced Linda Hendershot who gave the Susan Lee Lindquist Science without Boundaries Lecture on “ER mediated maintenance of cellular proteostasis”, Fig. ?Fig.11. Open in a separate windowFig. 1 First Virtual International Congress on Cellular and Organismal Stress Responses was held with great success on November 5–6, 2020, with over 300 participants.