American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting 2026

Name: American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting 2026
Start: 2026-12-12
End: 2026-12-16
Location: San Diego Convention Center

American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting 2026 takes place on 12–16 December 2026 at San Diego Convention Center, San Diego. It is organised by American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), and B2DB lists 32 speakers and 56 sessions announced so far.

Cell Bio 2026 is the joint annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and EMBO, taking place at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. The meeting brings the cell biology community together to share science, with keynote lectures, symposia, talks and posters, workshops, award sessions, professional development programming and an exhibit hall.

Key facts

Dates	12–16 December 2026 (upcoming)
Venue	San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, United States of America
Organiser	American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
Series	American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting
Speakers	32
Sessions	56
Official site	ascb.org/cellbio2026/abstracts-2026/scientificsessions

Keynote speakers

Elaine Fuchs Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Elly Tanaka Adjunct Investigator at the IMP and Scientific Director, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA)
Leticia Márquez-Magaña San Francisco State University
Liqun Luo Bill and Ann Swindell Endowed Chair, HHMI Investigator, Stanford University
Ramanujan Hegde Programme Leader and Head of the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)
Sherilynn Black Duke University

Speakers (32)

Compiled from the published agenda; speakers can claim and verify their own entry.

Elaine Fuchs Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Elly Tanaka Adjunct Investigator at the IMP and Scientific Director, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA)
Leticia Márquez-Magaña San Francisco State University
Liqun Luo Bill and Ann Swindell Endowed Chair, HHMI Investigator, Stanford University
Ramanujan Hegde Programme Leader and Head of the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)
Sherilynn Black Duke University
Aaron Diantonio Washington University
Alan G. Hinnebusch
Andrew Alamban University of California, San Francisco
Arda Mizrak Harvard University
Binyam Mogessie Yale University
Brian Couch University of Nebraska, Lincoln
David Breslow Yale University
Diana Bautista University of California, Berkeley
Elçin Ünal UC Berkeley
Erik Sahai The Francis Crick Institute
Ilya Levental University of Virginia
Jez Carlton King's College London and Francis Crick Institute
Jiefu Li Janelia HHMI
Karen Oegema University of California, San Diego
Karin Reinisc Yale University
Karsten Weis ETH Zurich
Kate Cavanaugh University of California, San Francisco
Kristen Johnson University of New Hampshire
Lena Pernas University of California, Los Angeles
Leon Murphy Casma Therapeutic
Melina Schuh Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
Shirin Bahmanyar Yale University
Sue Biggins Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Valerie Weaver University of California, San Francisco
Wallace Marshall University of California, San Francisco
William Earnshaw University of Edinburgh