The organizing committee is pleased to invite you to attend the Embo workshop"Membrane fusion in health and disease" which will be held at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, from June 20th to 24th 2016.

There was outstanding progress recently, mainly in the field of intracellular vesicle fusion, which led to the Nobel Prize in Medicine to James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Südhof in 2013. Since then, a number of additional issues have come to the front, for instance, how is calcium sensing involved in the triggering of SNAREdirected fusion at the plasma membrane.