It also aims to promote collaborations, to update the nomenclature, and to foster initiatives that, ultimately, will help scientists in biomedical research to capitalize on the opportunities offered by this new field of cell biology. This EMBO Workshop on inter-organelle contacts biology, now at its 3 rd edition, aims at bringing together the community of scientists in this field to share their work, experience, expertise, and vision. This paradigm shift has spurred a new gold rush of research in cell biology that is transforming our understanding of cell physiology, signaling and metabolism in health and disease. In fact, the recent years of studies on inter-organelle contacts have revealed that complex cellular functions, biochemical processes and signaling pathways are governed at the sites where heterotypic organelles come into contact with each other. However, organelles do not exist only as single units, but also as part of entities formed through contacts between two or more distinct organelles. For decades, studies in cell biology have focused on discovering the functions and dynamics of individual organelles.

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