Meeting report: Seventh Annaberg EMBO Workshop 'Membrane traffic in the secretory pathway', Goldegg, Austria, 9-14 January 2007

Abstract

The seventh Annaberg Conference entitled ‘Membrane Traffic in the Secretory Pathway’ was, like previous meetings, very successful. The scenic Austrian village of Goldegg and its castle gave the meeting a great atmosphere, although this time we missed the wintry landscape. Nevertheless, many outstanding speakers presented the latest research in membrane dynamics along the secretory and endocytic pathways, and the poster sessions in the evenings were no less exciting. Within the topic of membrane trafficking, the talks and posters ranged from lipids to autophagy to signaling, and from mitosis to mitochondria, which made this conference very diverse and dynamic. The high quality of the talks ensured that all these different topics were effectively conveyed and provoked lively discussions. We would like to apologize that we can only report on a selection of the presented talks because of limited space, and therefore will not mention all the invited speakers in this report.