Liver and Metabolism, Diseases and Cancer
Suzhou, China | May 21 - 25, 2012

Organizers:
Gensheng Feng, University of California, San Diego, USA
David Moore, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Hongyang Wang, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital
/Institute of Shanghai, China

We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Liver and Metabolic, Disease and Cancer which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday May 21, and will conclude after lunch on Friday, May 25, 2012. It will include a combination of oral sessions and poster sessions, covering the latest findings across many topics in liver metabolism, diseases and cancer biology by bringing together a group of scientific leaders.

Major Topics:
- Liver metabolism in health and diseases
- Liver stem cells and liver cancer stem cells
- Liver development and organogenesis
- Bile acid cycling and hepatic lipid metabolism
- Liver injury and regeneration
- Liver fibrosis and cirrhosis
- Liver, inflammation and cancer
- Liver cancer, clinic and translational medicine

Keynote Speaker
Michael Karin, University of California, San Diego, USA

Invited Speakers
Myles Axton, Nature Genetics, USA
David Brenner, University of California, San Diego, USA
Hueng-Sik Choi, Chonnam National University, Korea
Jonathan Dranoff, University of Arkansas for the Medical Sciences, USA
Gen-Sheng Feng, University of California, San Diego, USA
Xinyuan Fu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bin Gao, National Institutes of Health, USA
Linda Greenbaum, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Sanjeev Gupta, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Subash Gupta, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, India
Lijian Hui, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, China
Randy Levinson, Nature Medicine, USA
Christopher Liddle, The University of Sydney, Australia
Atsushi Miyajima, University of Tokyo, Japan
Satdarshan Monga, University of Pittsburgh, USA
David Moore, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Irene Oi Lin Ng, The University of Hong Kong, China
Erwin Wagner, Spanish National Cancer Research Center, Spain
Hongyang Wang, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital/Institute of Shanghai, China
Xinwei Wang, National Institute of Health, USA
Morris White, Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, USA
Xiaohong Helena Yang, Cancer Cell, Cell Press, USA
Yingzi Yang, National Institutes of Health, USA
Jessica Zucman-Rossi, INSERM, France

Registration available until May 21, 2012
The on-line registration will be available until the meeting starts. But early registration will help to save cost. Rates vary for corporate/industry, academic (PhD, MD, staff scientists) and student (up to PhD) attendees. Endowed student package costs as low as USD250/CNY1530 before March 9th, 2012.

Abstract Deadline Extended to March 30th, 2012
We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. Selection results for short talks (10-20) and poster presentations will be made by the organizers on the basis of scientific merit and relevance.

Fellowships of up to $500 (USD) are available to participants who have an abstract accepted for poster presentation.

Cold Spring Harbor Asia
No.299 Qiyue Road, SIP/ Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Tel: +86-512-62729029
Fax: +86-512-62729028
Email: mikeji@cshl.edu 
Website: www.csh-asia.org