Webinar featuring Reuben Shaw, Professor at the Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Deputy Director of Salk Cancer Center, Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
The webinar touches upon the following key points:
- AMPK is a master regulator of organismal metabolism
- Identification and characterization of novel AMPK substrates
- ULK1 (aka Atg1) is the critical downstream kinase of AMPK that initiates autophagy
- ULK1 inhibitors as potential cancer therapeutics
