Membranes are dynamic and direct players in cell physiology, organelle structure and biogenesis, membrane transport and intracellular traffic and in dysfunctions leading to disease such as Alzheimer's disease, chronic inflammation, viral infections and metastatic cell invasion. While membranes allow for compartmentalisation of many different processes in the cell and thus allow for complexity, these compartments are dynamic and constantly interchanging components.

This conference focuses on a particular aspect of membrane dynamics - that of their shape and its consequences. Different cell types can often be recognised by their shape. Likewise, different organelles can be recognised by their different shapes (morphologies), have different lipid and protein compositions and associated function. Even within an individual membrane there are many subdomains, which can be scaffolded by proteins, by localized lipid compositions, by membrane curvature or by a combination thereof. Different lipid compositions of membranes have been recognised for some time, but the significance of different local curvatures is only beginning to be appreciated. This conference seeks to draw together scientists from various communities who are interested in membrane dynamics to present recent results and put ideas together on how membrane curvature is controlled and how it in turn, influences cellular processes.

This will be a relatively focused conference and thus we would like all participants to submit an abstract and a list of their publications for last 3 years as there are many opportunities left in different sessions for short talks and we also would like those who do not give oral presentation to present posters.