Autophagy is a cellular process allowing the recycling of cellular components. It has been under the spotlights this year after the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, for his discoveries on the autophagy machinery. This process also plays an essential role in stress adaptation, aging, development, and cellular responses to infections. In Humans, deficiencies in autophagy have been associated with neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, and inflammatory diseases. This research area is currently expanding, as highlighted by the high number (>8000) of scientific publications on this topic since the beginning of 2015.

The CFATG (www.cfatg.org) was created in 2011 to promote scientific research on autophagy and to improve the networking between French-speaking researchers, while ensuring the diffusion of new findings in this innovative area. The first meeting of CFATG was organized in Lyon in 2011. It was very successful, bringing together 165 researchers. Since then, meetings have been organized every year, gathering between 100 and 200 participants. From 2014, we have widened our audience by engaging partnerships with other European networks on autophagy and by inviting foreign internationally recognized researchers. Therefore, the meeting is now organized in English. Although mainly attracting French scientists, our annual meeting now welcomes young researchers from other countries.

The 2017 Meeting will take place in Paris 27 to 29 of November, in the Quartier Latin, in the amphitheater of the "ancienne école de médecine".The meeting is ambitious as we will welcome 7 internationally recognized speakers (see program www.cfatg.org).

We look forward to seeing you there for this new edition !