Bilbao, Spain
2026 Vallee Summer Symposium
The biennial Vallee Summer Symposium will be held in Bilbao, Spain, June 12-15, 2026. BY INVITATION ONLY
| Friday, June 12, 2026 | |
| 7:00 PM | Welcome Reception/Dinner |
| Saturday, June 13, 2026 | |
| 9:00 AM | Introduction Peter M Howley, MD, The Vallee Foundation President |
| 9:10 AM | Session 1 Chair: Wade Harper, PhD, HMS (VVP/Board) |
| 9:15 AM | Guardians of Cellular Homeostasis - Ubiquitin and Autophagy Networks Ivan Dikic, MD, PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt (VVP) |
| 9:45 AM | From Listeria to Phage Therapy Pascale Cossart, PhD, Pasteur Institute (VVP) |
| 10:15 AM | Flash talks VS 2025: David Bauer, DPhil, Crick; Aude Bernheim, PhD, Pasteur; Akankshi Munjal, PhD, Duke; James Nuñez, PhD, UCBerkeley; Elizabeth Pollina, PhD, Washington U |
| 11:00 AM | Chromatin Replication, Transcriptional Plasticity and Cellular Adaptation Cristina Gonźalez Aguilera, PhD, Spanish National Research Council |
| 11:30 AM | Functional Bond-Selective Microscopy for Probing Neuronal Activities Lu Wei, PhD, Caltech (VS 2022) |
| 12:00 PM | Developing Gut Microbiome-Directed Therapeutics for Childhood Undernutrition Jeff Gordon, MD, Washington University School of Medicine (VVP) |
| 12:30 PM | Flash talks: Laura DeNardo, PhD, UCLA (VS 2024); Dominika Gruszka, PhD, Oxford (VS 2023); Lucas Jae, PhD, LMU, Munich (VS2023); Binyam Mogessie, PhD, Yale (VS 2024) |
| Sunday, June 14, 2026 | |
| 9:00 AM | Session 2 Chair: Carla Shatz, PhD, Stanford University (VVP) |
| 9:05 AM | The Ribosome Derives the Energy to Translocate and Unwind mRNA from EF-G Binding Carlos Bustamante, PhD, University of California, Berkeley (VVP) |
| 9:35 AM | RNA Editing is at the Core of RNAi and Translation Gary Ruvkun, PhD, Harvard Medical School (VVP) |
| 10:05 AM | Flash talks: Irma Querques, PhD, Vienna (VS 2024); Priya Rajasethupathy, MD, PhD, Rockefeller (VS 2023); Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, PhD, MRC-LMB, Cambridge (VS 2024); Andela Śarić, PhD, IST, Austria (VS 2022); Peter Sudmant, PhD, UCBerkeley (VS 2022) |
| 10:50 AM | Keeping your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Tuning of Network Function Gina Turrigiano, PhD, Brandeis University (VVP) |
| 11:20 AM | Measuring and Modeling Behavior with AI Mackenzie Mathis, PhD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (VS 2022) |
| 2:00 PM | Session 3 Chair: Eva Nogales, PhD, University of California, Berkeley (VVP/Board) |
| 2:05 PM | Mechanobiology of Axons Shigeki Watanabe, PhD, Johns Hopkins University (VS 2022) |
| 2:35 PM | Functional Aggregates that Drive Innate Immunity Hao Wu, PhD, Harvard Medical School (VVP) |
| 3:25 PM | The Secret Lives of Choanoflagellates Nicole King, PhD, University of California, Berkeley (VVP) |
| 3:55 PM | Mitosis and its Regulation by Kinetochores Andrea Musacchio, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund (VVP) |