MiPsummer Programme

 

FEBS workshop & MiPsummer School on Mitochondria at Cambridge 2012



 

 

Saturday, 7th July Arrival 

 

 

17:00

Registration (Bridgetower room)

19:00

Buffet Dinner (Graham Storey Room)

20:00 - 20:15

Welcome to Cambridge (Lecture theatre)

20:15 - 21:15

Chuck Hoppel (Cleveland) 

 

Mitochondrial physiology and functional testing in diagnosis of mitochondrial disease (Lecture theatre)

21:15

Reception (Terrace room)

 

Sunday, 8th July

 

 

09:00

Mitochondrial structure and respiratory function session (Graham Storey room)

09:00 - 09:30

Erich Gnaiger (Innsbruck) 

 

Mitochondrial respiration: in vitro to in vivo

09:30 - 10:00

Rodrigue Rossignol (Bordeaux) 

 

Mitochondrial structure, fission and networks

10:00 - 10:15

Steve Hand (Baton Rouge) 

 

Protein targeting and translocation into mitochondria

10:15 - 10:30

Discussion

10:30

Coffee break (Dining Hall)

11:00 - 11:15

Shijun Xu (Gothenburg) 

 

Mitochondrial dynamics at single cell level

11:15 - 11:30

Kel Sheldon (NIH) 

 

VDAC blockage by tubulin is the missing link of mitochondrial respiration control

11:30 - 11:45

Marleen Forkink (Nijmegen) 

 

Inhibiting mitochondrial Complex I or Complex III differentially affects mitochondrial physiology

11:45 - 12:00

Laura García Corzo (Granada) 

 

A new insight about molecular aspects of CoQ deficiency

12:00 - 12:15

Marta Luna-Sánchez (Granada) 

 

CoQ deficiency: molecular and pathophysiology consequences

12:15 - 12:30

Discussion

12:30

Lunch (Dining Hall) 

13:30

Experimental methods session (Graham Storey room)

13:30 - 13:50

Vilmante Borutaite (Kaunas) 

 

How to isolate mitochondria

13:50 - 14:10

Rodrigue Rossignol (Bordeaux) 

 

How to measure morphology, fusion/fission

14:10 - 14:30

Kathrin Renner (Regensburg) 

 

How to measure respiration & membrane potential

14:30 - 14:50

Erich Gnaiger (Innsbruck) 

 

How to express respiratory states - www.bioblast.at

14:50 - 15:10

Chuck Hoppel (Cleveland) 

 

How to diagnose mitochondrial disease

15:10 - 15:30

Aviva Tolkovsky (Cambridge) 

 

How to measure cell death and mitophagy

15:30 - 15:50

Mike Murphy (Cambridge) 

 

How to measure ROS

15:50 - 16:00

Discussion

16:00

Tea break (Dining Hall)

16:30

Mitochondrial coupling, thermogenesis & obesity session (Graham Storey room)

16:30 - 16:45

Guy Brown (Cambridge) 

 

Mitochondrial energy production

16:45 - 17:00

Mary Ellen Harper (Ottawa) 

 

Variable mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation efficiency and its implications for obesity

17:00 - 17:15

Maria Holmström (Stockholm) 

 

Tissue-specific effects of leptin treatment on mitochondrial function in obese leptin-deficient (ob/ob) mice

17:15 - 17:30

Thierry Arnould (Namur) 

 

Mitochondrial uncoupling induces modifications of glucose metabolism and microRNA expression in 3T3-L1 adipocytes

17:30 - 17:45

Erika Cortez (Rio de Janeiro) 

 

Mitochondrial oxidative metabolism impairment in bone marrow mononuclear cells of obese mice

17:45 - 18:00

Anastasia Kalinovich (Stockholm) 

 

The effects of the mitochondria-targeted cationic uncoupler C12TPP on brown adipose tissue mitochondria, cells & mice

18:00 - 19:00

Discussion

19:00

Dinner (Dining Hall)

21:00

Evening tour of Cambridge & its pubs

 

Monday, 9th July

 

 

09:00

Mitophagy, neurons and neurodegenerative disease session (Graham Storey room)

09:00 - 09:30

Aviva Tolkovsky (Cambridge) 

 

Mitophagy and neurodegeneration

09:30 - 10:00

Vilmante Borutaite (Kaunas) 

 

Mitochondria in ischaemic & neurodegenerative disease

10:00 - 10:15

Subir Roy Chowdhury (Canada) 

 

Neurodegeneration in diabetes is linked to impaired AMPK signaling and mitochondrial dysfunction

10:15 - 10:30

Discussion

10:30

Coffee (Dining Hall)

11:00 - 11:15

Ana Carina Costa (Leicester) 

 

Mitochondrial chaperone Trap1 interacts genetically with Pink1 in Drosophila

11:15 - 11:30

Carola Schiller (Frankfurt) 

 

Mitochondrial dysfunction in SY5Y cells moderately expressing human ß-amyloid

11:30 - 11:45

Joanna Poulton (Oxford) 

 

Severe OPA1 mutations dysregulate mitophagy and disorganise the location of mitochondria in patients with OPA1 plus

11:45 - 12:15

Discussion

12:30

Lunch (Dining Hall) or MiP Society Board Meeting (Bridgetower room)

13:30 - 15:00

Walk to Grantchester (meet outside Graham Storey room)

15:00 - 16:00

Special interest discussion sessions in Orchard Tea Gardens or The Green Man

 

Structure & dynamics or Mitophagy & Neurodegeneration or Obesity & Coupling or Respiratory function

16:00 - 17:00

Walk back to Cambridge

17:30

Reactive oxygen species session (Graham Storey room)

17:30 - 18:00

Michael Murphy (Cambridge MBU) 

 

Targeting bioactive molecules to mitochondria

18:00 - 18:15

Heather Wilkins (Denver) 

 

Dicarboxylate carrier-mediated transport of glutathione into mitochondria determines neuronal susceptibility to oxidative and nitrosative stress

18:15 - 18:30

Maria Chiara Magnifico (Rome) 

 

Cell bioenergetics, nitric oxide and melatonin 

18:30 - 18:45

Stephanie Hagl (Frankfurt) 

 

Herbal antioxidants induce mitogenesis and improve mitochondrial function in PC12 cells

18:45 - 19:00

Ryan Mailloux (Ottawa) 

 

Glutaredoxin-2 and glutathionylation in the regulation of mitochondrial energetics in mice

19:00 - 19:30

Discussion

19:30

Dinner (Dining Hall)

21:00 - 22:00

Poster session (Bar & Crescent room)

 

Tuesday, 10th July 

 

 

09:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit (Graham Storey room)

09:00 - 09:40

Sir John Walker (Cambridge MBU) 

 

The ATP synthase

09:40 - 10:20

Leonid Sazonov (Cambridge MBU) 

 

Mitochondrial Complex I

10:20

Coffee break (Dining Hall)

10:50 - 11:30

Edmund Kunji (Cambridge MBU) 

 

Mitochondrial transport proteins

11:30 - 12:10

Michal Minczuk (Cambridge MBU) 

 

Posttranscriptional regulation of mtDNA expression

12:10 - 12:50

Antonella Spinazzola (Cambridge MBU) 

 

Mitochondrial nucleiods and biogenesis

13:00

Lunch (Dining Hall)

14:00

Hypoxia, stress and exercise session (Graham Storey room)

14:00 - 14:30

Steve Hand (Baton Rouge) 

 

Mitochondrial function in an invertebrate extremophile

14:30 - 15:00

Andrew Murray (Cambridge) 

 

Mitochondria in hypoxia, exercise and altitude

15:00 - 15:15

Matthias Elstner (Munich) 

 

Life is not a sprint, it's a marathon: the metabolic gene expression footprint of human muscle fibres

15:15 - 15:30

Cesare Granata (Melbourne) 

 

Mitochondrial adaptations to different training stimuli: the remarkable plasticity of skeletal muscle oxidative capacity

15:30 - 15:45

Dita Kasparova (Prague) 

 

Expression of mitochondrial creatine kinase and hexokinase is amplified in the rat heart adapted to chronic hypoxia

15:45 - 16:15

Discussion

16:15

Tea break (Dining Hall)

17:15 - 19:15

Meet the PI session (Graham Storey room) 10 min 1 to 1 with the PIs of your choice

19:30

Dinner (Dining Hall)

21:00 - 22:00

Poster session (Bar & Crescent room)

 

Wednesday, 11th July 

 

 

09:00

Cancer, Sepsis & Immunity session (Graham Storey room)

09:00 - 09:30

Rodrigue Rossignol (Bordeaux) 

 

Mitochondria and cancer 

09:30 - 10:00

Elizabeth Murchison (Cambridge) 

 

The devil's mitochondria: biology and evolution of transmissible cancers

10:00 - 10:15

Martina Bajzíková (Prague) 

 

Mitochondrial targeting of vitamin E succinate enhances its anti-cancer activity via mitochondrial Complex II 

10:15 - 10:30

Discussion

10:30

Coffee break (Dining Hall)

11:00 - 11:30

Mervyn Singer (London) 

 

Mitochondria and sepsis 

11:30 - 11:45

Marco Fischer (Basel) 

 

Metabolic profiles of human naďve and memory CD8+ T cells

11:45 - 12:15

Discussion

12:30

Lunch (Dining Hall)

13:30 - 14:30

Special interest group discussion sessions (meet Graham Storey room)

 

Modelling & regulation or Pathology or Reactive Oxygen Species or Hypoxia & Exercise & Mitochondrial DNA & disease or Cell death & the heart

14:30 - 15:30

Punting session 

15:30

Tea break (Dining Hall)

16:00

Mitochondrial modelling & regulation of energy metabolism session (Graham Storey room)

16:00 - 16:30

Bernard Korzeniewski (Krakow) 

 

Computer modelling of metabolic systems

16:30 - 17:00

Alan Robinson (Cambridge MBU) 

 

Modelling the metabolism of the mitochondrion

17:00 - 17:30

Chris Cooper (Essex) 

 

Cytochrome oxidase and its modelling 

17:30 - 17:45

Vitaly Selivanov (Barcelona) 

 

Multistationary and oscillatory modes of free radicals generation by the mitochondrial respiratory chain revealed by a bifurcation analysis

17:45 - 18:00

Chong Kiat Goo (Singapore) 

 

PI3K/Akt signaling enhances mitochondrial respiratory capacity through 4E-BP1

18:00 - 18:15

Robert Boushel (Copenhagen) 

 

Inhibition of skeletal muscle ATPase activity alters mitochondrial substrate and adenylate control of OXPHOS, uncoupling

18:15 - 18:30

Philippe Diolez (Bordeaux) 

 

From in vivo to in vitro: top-down control analyses of mitochondrial bioenergetics impairment in aged rat gastrocnemius muscle

18:30 - 19:00

Discussion

19:30

Dinner (Dining Hall)

21:00 - 22:00

Poster session (Bar & Crescent room)

 

Thursday, 12th July 

 

 

09:00

Mitochondrial cell death, pathology & the heart session (Graham Storey room)

09:00 - 09:15

Guy Brown (Cambridge)

 

Cell death pathways

09:15 - 09:45

Michael Duchen (London) 

 

Mitochondrial pathology 

09:45 - 10:15

Andrew Halestrap (Bristol) 

 

Mechanisms regulating ROS production and the permeability transition pore in ischaemia/reperfusion injury of the heart

10:15 - 10:45

Discussion

10:45

Coffee break

11:15 - 11:30

Marina Makrecka (Riga, Latvia) 

 

Reduced availability of L-carnitine protects cardiac mitochondria against fatty acid-induced stress

11:30 - 11:45

Magdaléna Vondrusová (Prague, Czeck) 

 

The role of mitochondrial supercomplexes in apoptosis induction by mitochondria-targeted agents

11:45 - 12:00

Petra Arnostova (Prague) 

 

Comparison of hexokinase expression in the left and right ventricle of male Wistar rats

12:10 - 12:30

Discussion

12:30

Lunch (Dining Hall) 

13:30 - 14:30

Punting session

14:30 - 15:30

The Great Debate session (Graham Storey room) The future of mitochondrial research

15:30

Tea break (Dining Hall)

16:00

Mitochondrial evolution, DNA & disease session (Graham Storey room)

16:00 - 16:30

Nick Lane (London) 

 

Mitochondria in the evolution of complex life

16:30 - 17:00

Masashi Tanaka (Tokyo) 

 

Rapid genetic diagnosis and pyruvate therapy for mitochondrial diseases

17:00 - 17:15

Chin San Liu (Taiwan) 

 

Functional recovery in human cells harboring MERRF A8344G mutation of mitochondrial DNA via peptide-mediated mitochondrial delivery

17:15 - 17:30

Sarah Miles (Bristol) 

 

Effect of DNA lesions on transcription by human mitochondrial RNA polymerase

17:30 - 18:00

Discussion

18:00 - 18:30

Summary - feedback - evaluation (Graham Storey room)

18:30 - 19:30

Reception & MiPArt exhibition (Graham Storey room &/or outside)

19:30

MiP Summer Dinner (Dining Hall)

21:00

MiP special lecture: Chris Cooper

 

The Mitochondrial Olympics (Dining Hall)

 

Friday, 13th July Departure

 

 


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