Join us for Journal Club tomorrow, November 12th, as Dr. Elias Adriaenssens presents his recently published article in Nature Cell Biology, titled “Reconstitution of BNIP3/NIX-mitophagy initiation reveals hierarchical flexibility of the autophagy machinery.” We look forward to seeing you there!

Hope to see you at the 2026 GRC autophagy meeting! @womeninautophagy.bsky.social @cancelluio.bsky.social @arcticautophagy.bsky.social

Such a pleasure to follow the digital #WIA2025meeting! Thanks to the organizers for your great work! @womeninautophagy.bsky.social

Introducing WIA-COMPASS, our Women In Autophagy-COmmunity and Mentorship for African Scientists! Join us on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/wia-... to hear more about our initiative and get information on future workshops and programs! #WIACOMPASS

And that’s a wrap!! 🎉 Huge thanks to our amazing organizers, volunteers, and committees for another successful symposium! We’re grateful to our keynote speakers, presenters, and flash talk participants for sharing their inspiring research. See you at our 7th Annual Symposium! #WIA2025meeting

Congratulations to our winners of this year symposium! Amazing talks and wonderful insights into different aspects of autophagy! #WIA2025meeting

Coming up LIVE in a few minutes! Join us for our workshop on "Transforming Research with AI". Looking forward to seeing you there! #WIA2025meeting

Coming up in less than 5 minutes! Join us for our second flash talk session featuring outstanding autophagy research presented by trainees from across the globe! #WIA2025meeting

We now have Dr. Katrin Linda presenting her work on how "Neural autophagosomes are transported to astrocytes for degradation". Welcome, Dr. Katrin Linda! #WIA2025meeting

We currently have Elena Lavado Fernández presenting her work on "Protective Role of Autophagy in Alcoholic Steatohepatitis". Thank you for sharing your work with us, Elena! #WIA2025meeting

We now have Marion Carpentier presenting her work on "Characterization of the pathogenicity of clinical variants of the core autophagy gene ATG7 found in a fetus with brain malformation". Welcome Marion! #WIA2025meeting

Next, we now have Dr. Karolina Pircs giving her talk on "Directly reprogrammed human neurons and astrocytes reveal age-related differences in autophagic regulation"! #WIA2025meeting

Thank you, Mrunmayee Kulkarni, for your wonderful talk on "Regulation of mitophagy during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis"! #WIA2025meeting

We're on LIVE featuring our keynote speaker Dr. Marja Jäättelä and her talk on "Lysosomes as targets for cancer therapy". Join us now and hear about her wonderful insights and works on the lysosomes! #WIA2025meeting

We're excited to introduce WIA-COMPASS, our expanded network for African Scientists! #WIA2025meeting

On LIVE! We started the day with Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo giving another introduction to our WIA community and different committees. Join us for another day of wonderful talks and workshop!

In less than 30 minutes! Join us for our second day of the 6th Annual Symposium as we features our second keynote speaker, Dr. Marja Jäättelä, as well as wonderful selected oral presentations and flash talks, and a mentoring workshop on research with AI! See you soon!

🌟 What an amazing Day 1 at #WIA2025meeting! Thanks to all our speakers and participants for making it inspiring. 📢 Join us tomorrow for more talks, networking, and discoveries in autophagy! Don’t miss it! 👩‍🔬✨

🎤 💪Last talk of the day at #WIA2025meeting! Meagan McGrath, PhD (@MonashUni, Australia) presents: “Autophagic lysosome reformation is essential for muscle glycogen metabolism.”

📚 Fascinating research presented by Aravinthkumar Jayabalan, PhD, from the University of New Mexico, USA. #WIA2025meeting

🔬 Discovering new insights in ER-phagy! Thanh Nguyen, MS, (PhD Student) from Baylor College of Medicine (USA) presents her work on "Investigating the role of ER-phagy during injury response and cellular regeneration" #WIA2025meeting

🧠Exploring neuroinflammation and autophagy! Floralba Gjergjova, MS, PhD student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (USA), presents her work on "Failure of chaperone-mediated autophagy in T Cells aggravates neuroinflammation in Tauopathies" at #WIA2025meeting

Live now at the 2025 WIA Annual Symposium: Trainee Talks Session I. 🧬 Raffaella Bonavita, PhD from University of Naples Federico II (Italy) presents Evidence of an unprecedented cytoplasmic function of DDX11, the Warsaw breakage syndrome DNA helicase, in regulating autophagy.

Live Now: Flash Talk Session 1 🎤✨ 25 inspiring talks highlighting groundbreaking WIA research! 💡 Join our community advancing autophagy: 🌐 Get involved womeninautophagy.com 🙌 Volunteer with us lnkd.in/eexi-rN4 #WIA2025meeting #WomenInAutophagy #WomenInScience

Live now at the 2025 WIA Annual Symposium! We are honored to have Dr. Jay Debnath, MD @DebnathLabUCSF kicking off the event with his keynote speech: “Autophagy-dependent proteostasis and breast cancer metastasis.” Excited to learn from his groundbreaking insights. #WIA2025meeting

Post 2/2 🌟 A huge thank you to all the incredible Women in Autophagy volunteers who make the symposium possible! 🙌 Your hard work builds an inspiring global community of scientists. 💜 Want to get involved? www.womeninautophagy.com #WIA2025meeting #WomenInAutophagy #Volunteers

Post 1/2 🌟 A huge thank you to all the incredible Women in Autophagy volunteers who make the symposium possible! 🙌 Your hard work builds an inspiring global community of scientists. 💜 Want to get involved? www.womeninautophagy.com #WIA2025meeting #WomenInAutophagy #Volunteers

The 6th Annual Women in Autophagy Symposium is live! Honoring Beth Levine’s legacy with 1,601 WIA members from 56 countries across 6 continents 🌍. Join the conversation: #WIA2025meeting. Volunteer: www.womeninautophagy.com #WomenInAutophagy #GlobalScience

Less than 6 hours left! Join us today for our 6th Annual Symposium Webinar, featuring exciting autophagy research from our global community. Don’t miss our keynote speaker, Dr. Jay Debnath! We look forward to seeing you soon!

Less than 3 days left until the our 6th Annual Symposium Webinar! Registration is still open — it’s completely free and open to everyone! Register today to explore the amazing autophagy research happening across our global community! forms.office.com/r/vXS654upEX

A little bit more than 1 week left before our 6th Annual Symposium! See below for our preliminary agenda in different time zones & register for free today! 👉 forms.office.com/r/vXS654upEX

A little bit more than 1 week left before our 6th Annual Symposium! See below for our preliminary agenda in different time zones & register for free today! 👉 forms.office.com/r/vXS654upEX

Only less than 2 weeks left! Register for free today! 👉 forms.office.com/r/vXS654upEX

Only 3 weeks left before our 6th Annual Symposium! Register for free today! 👉 forms.office.com/r/vXS654upEX As part of the symposium on Nov 4, don’t miss the mentoring workshop on “Transforming Research with AI” featuring Professors Anna Smajdor, Nikolaj Kramer, and Dr. Aram Nikolai Andersen.

📣 Join us for Journal Club next Wednesday, October 15th! 📆 ✨ Dr. Lucille Ferret will present her recent work, “Lysosomal membrane permeabilization enhances the anticancer effects of POLR1 (RNA polymerase I) transcription inhibitors,” published in Autophagy earlier this year. ✨

📣 Join us for Journal Club next Wednesday, October 15th! 📆 ✨ Dr. Lucille Ferret will present her recent work, “Lysosomal membrane permeabilization enhances the anticancer effects of POLR1 (RNA polymerase I) transcription inhibitors,” published in Autophagy earlier this year. ✨

🚀 The WIA Communications Committee is looking for new volunteers! Love website design, content creation, or social media? Want to make an impact and connect with amazing scientists? 🌟 Join us and help boost WIA’s online presence! 💌Interested? Email us at [email protected]

📆📣Join us for journal club tomorrow as Dr. Claudia Puri presents her work on "Transferrin receptor controls both autophagosome formation and closure via phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate synthesis", a recent work published in Developmental Cell! Email [email protected] for Zoom link

📣Deadline is tonight! Submit your abstract today!

Final deadline to submit is tomorrow!

After the summer break☀️, the Scientific Advice Committee (SAC) is excited to be back with the Elevator Pitch series! Get to know Dr. Ruheena Javed! 🚀 Join our community to drive scientific innovation and foster mentorship, team building and collaboration. 🌟 #ScienceCommunity #WomenInAutophagy #SAC

📣 Deadline Extended! 📆 Abstract submissions for the WIA Symposium Webinar are now due Friday, Sept 19. Don’t miss your chance to showcase your work to the autophagy community! 👇Submit here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

📆 Abstract is due this Friday!

📅 Less than 2 weeks left to submit your abstract for our 6th Annual Symposium Webinar! 🎉Don’t miss this chance to share your work, hear the latest advances in autophagy research, and connect with a vibrant community! 🎉 The link for abstraction submission is below 👇 forms.office.com/r/wZbTvPePwR

📆 Mark your calendars! The 2026 Keystone Symposium on Autophagy: Mechanisms to Therapy will take place February 2–5, 2026. 🔬 Check out the featured program and make note of key deadlines for registration and abstract submissions 👇

📆✨Join us this November for the Women in Autophagy 6th Annual Symposium Webinar! Registration is free and abstract is due September 12th! 👇 Registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon... Abstract submission: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

📆✨Join us this November for the Women in Autophagy 6th Annual Symposium Webinar! Registration is free and abstract is due September 12th! 👇 Registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon... Abstract submission: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

🎉 Check out this exciting new publication in Autophagy by one of our members, Dr. Mojgan Djavaheri-Mergny, titled: “Lysosomal membrane permeabilization enhances the anticancer effects of POLR1 (RNA polymerase I) transcription inhibitors”! 👇 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NGSGV...

✨Be a part of an amazing community and learn about the latest discoveries in autophagy✨ Registration is FREE and abstraction submission deadline is September 12th. Preserve your spot today! 👇 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Save the Date! 📅 November 3-4, 2025 – The 6th Annual Symposium Webinar is coming soon! 🎉 Registration is FREE and abstract submission deadline is September 12th. 👇 forms.office.com/pages/respon... We look forward to seeing you there!