Annual Midwest Stress and Molecular Chaperone Meeting
 

Recognizing that we are still in a pandemic, masks will be optional, but strongly encouraged. This annual meeting is for researchers interested in cell stress responses, the regulation and function of heat-shock proteins and molecular chaperones, protein quality control, protein misfolding, aggregation, phase condensates, and diseases of protein conformation.     

The emphasis of this meeting is on selecting Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and New Investigators as speakers.

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This meeting is sponsored by funds generously provided by The Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Institute for Biomedical Research.  There is no registration fee for this meeting. 

Registration

Register for the meeting using this link 

https://northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0uFXnyWgZWqgibA

Abstracts

Abstracts are due by November 18, 2022. Please send your abstract via email with a Word document attachment to Rebecca Phend at rebecca.phend@northwestern.edu. You can view an example here. 

Meeting Schedule

The 2022 schedule can be viewed here as an example. 

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Please watch this space for announcements. 

The 2023 meeting will be held, in-person, at the James Allen Center on Northwestern's Evanston Campus. The date of the meeting is Saturday, January 21, 2023. At this time, masks will be optional, but encouraged. 

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A block of rooms with a rate of $99/night has been reserved at The Graduate Evanston. Please book using this link:  https://www.graduatehotels.com/evanston/#/booking/step-1?group=20230120we&arrive=01%2F20%2F2023&depart=01%2F22%2F2023