The 19th Ataxia-Telangiectasia workshop (ATW2023Kyoto), which was originally planned as ATW2022 in Shenzhen, China, is now decided to be held from March 2nd to 5th, 2023 in Kyoto, Japan as an on-site meeting.
The venue will be the Rekisaikan Hall (https://rekisaikan.jp/) in the Kitayama district. Most of the speakers previously invited by the ATW2022 have agreed to attend and give a talk at the ATW2023Kyoto. The meeting information (deadlines for registration, abstract submission, etc) will be found on this website in due course.
This will be an exciting meeting with many top-level invited speakers to discuss cutting edge science in basic and clinical biology of AT, related disorders, and DNA damage response.
Deadlines
Early bird registration and payment: Jan 20th, 2023 (JST)
Final registration and payment deadline: Feb 20th, 2023 (JST)
Abstract submission: Dec 31st, 2022 (JST)
Abstract submission for invited speakers: Jan 20th, 2023 (JST)
Tentative program
March 2nd
13:00– | The meeting will start. Keynote and plenary talks |
19:00– | Welcome reception (every participants) |
March 3rd
9:00–19:00 | Plenary sessions |
March 4th
9:00–12:30 | Plenary sessions |
Afternoon | Excursion (or free time) We will plan a short bus trip in Kyoto. Reservation and payment required. We will let you know the details shortly. |
March 5th
9:00–17:00 | Plenary sessions |
19:00– | Banquet at the Karasuma Kyoto Hotel (Invited speakers and participants who paid for the ticket) |
Registration
Registration Type | Early bird registration [October 20, 2022 – January 20, 2023] | Regular registration [January 21, 2023 – February 20, 2023] |
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Industry | 80,000 JPY | 90,000 JPY |
Academia (PI, Senior scientist, postdoc, etc) | 60,000 JPY | 70,000 JPY |
Student (Undergraduate, Graduate course) or non-scientist | 40,000 JPY | 50,000 JPY |
The registration includes:
- Attendance of the session
- Welcome dinner (evening, March 2nd)
- An abstract booklet
- Coffee at the coffee breaks
- Lunch (March 3rd and 5th)
Not included:
- Accommodation
- Excursion (March 4th afternoon. We will plan some optional tours. Payments required)
- Banquet (March 5th. If you would like to join, please get a ticket at the registration page)
Invited speakers: You can register here but you do not have to, since you are already registered.
Abstract submission
Tentative session topics
- Diagnosis and treatment of AT and related disorders
- Neurodegeneration
- Cancer
- Immunodeficiency
- DNA repair
- DNA damage signaling
- Chromatin response and genome organization
- Premature aging
There are slots for the oral and poster presentations.
To submit an abstract, you first need to register and pay the conference fee. An abstract should be submitted as a word file (the format is provided) to the email address below after you completed the registration as well as the payment.
The format for abstract (link to word file)
atworkshop2023[at]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp (replace "[at]" with "@")
Speakers
Confirmed speaker

Christopher Bakkenist
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Ari Barzilai
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Keith W. Caldecott
University of Sussex, UK
Junjie Chen
MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Vincenzo Costanzo
IFOM ETS, Italy
Domenico Delia
IFOM ETS, Italy
Sherif El-Khamisy
University of Sheffield, UK
Marco Foiani
IFOM ETS, Italy
Caixia Guo
Beijing Institute of Genomics, CAS, China
Karl Herrup
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Yuejin Hua
Zhejiang University, China
Jun Huang
Zhejiang University, China
Maria Jasin
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Jan Karlseder
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Daochun Kong
Peking University, China
Stephen Kowalczykowski
University of California at Davis, USA
Li Lan
Havard Medical School, USA
Martin Lavin
The University of Queensland, Australia
Qing Li
Peking University, China
Markus Löbrich
Technique University of Darmstadt, Germany
Zhenkun Lou
Mayo Clinic, USA
Jean-Yves Masson
CHU de Québec Research Center, Canada
Peter McKinnon
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
Kalappa Muniyappa
Indian Institute of Science, India
Kyungjae Myung
Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology, Korea
Andre Nussenzweig
National Institutes of Health, USA
Tej K. Pandita
Center for Genomics and Precision Medicine, Institute of Bioscience and Technology Texas A&M College of Medicine, USA
Tanya Paull
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Sathees C. Raghavan
Indian Institute of Science, India
Atsushi Shibata
Gunma University, Japan
Yossi Shiloh
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Masatoshi Takagi
Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Shunichi Takeda
Shenzhen University, China
Vinay Tergaonka
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Singapore
Helle Ulrich
Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
Jiadong Wang
Peking University, China
Zhao-Qi Wang
Leibniz Institute on Aging-Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Germany
Stephen West
The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Dongyi Xu
Peking University Beijing, China
Xingzhi Xu
Shenzhen University, China
Wei Yang
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA
Xiaochun Yu
City of Hope National Medical Center, USA
Shan Zha
Columbia University, USA
Wei-Guo Zhu
Shenzhen University, China
Lee Zou
Harvard Medical School, USAContact us
If you have any questions, please contact the following mail address: atworkshop2023[at]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp (replace "[at]" with "@")