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Metabolism: From Cellular Mechanisms to Development and Disease

Date: 21 – 23 June 2027

Location: St Mary’s Marylebone, London, UK

Organisers: Sally Dunwoodie, Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Satdarshan [Paul] Singh Monga and Hans-Georg Sprenger

Metabolism – the integrated network of biochemical reactions that provides energy, generates cellular building blocks and regulates cellular functions – lies at the heart of life. Over the past decade, advances in cell biology, genetics, imaging, modelling and systems-level approaches have revealed that metabolism is a dynamic and highly regulated driver of cell fate, tissue development and organismal health. This meeting brings together researchers from diverse disciplines to explore the latest discoveries at the interface of cell biology, developmental biology and disease modelling, fostering discussion, collaboration, and new insights into how metabolic regulation shapes both normal physiology and disease pathology.

Topics will include:

Technologies to study compartmentalised metabolism
Mitochondrial metabolism and metabolite signalling
Metabolic control of cell fate
Metabolism and tissue development
Metabolism in development, health and disease

Organisers and speakers

Sally Dunwoodie Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia
Irene Miguel-Aliaga The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Satdarshan [Paul] Singh Monga University of Pittsburgh, USA
Hans-Georg Sprenger Max Planck Insitute for Biology of Ageing, Germany

Alexander Aulehla EMBL, Germany
Navdeep S Chandel Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Heather Christofk University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Lydia Finley Sloan Kettering Institute, USA
Alexis Jourdain University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Natalie Krahmer Helmholtz Munich, Germany
Kari Nejak-Bowen University of Pittsburgh, USA
Heidi McBride McGill University, Canada
Shyh-Chang Ng Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Maria Rodriguez Colman UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jared Rutter University of Utah & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
Kristina Stapornwongkul Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria
Jan Jakub Żylicz University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Registration

Applications for this meeting will open in October 2026.

Please email meetings@biologists.com if you have any questions.

Key dates

Registration open – October 2026

Early-bird deadline – 25 February 2027

Abstract deadline – 25 March 2027

Final registration deadline – 7 May 2027

St Mary’s Marylebone

St Mary’s Marylebone is a 246-year-old Georgian building with soaring ceilings, stained-glass windows, and oak floors. On York Street, Marylebone it is 8 minutes’ walk from Baker Street (5 Tube lines) and Marylebone mainline station.

Image credit: Till Stephan, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany