Scientific Sessions

Print Day 1

Sunday, 11 September

18:00-19:00

EMBO Plenary Lecture embo

Chair: Heidi McBride

Gottfried Schatz (Basel, Switzerland)

What it takes to succeed in science

19:00-20:00

Mitochondrial dynamics

Chair: Heidi McBride

19:00-19:30

Jodi Nunnari (Davis, CA, USA)

Mitochondrial Dynamics

19:30-20:00

Janet M. Shaw (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)

Identification of the minimal mitochondrial fission machinery in yeast and humans

20:00

Dinner

Print Day 2

Monday, 12 September

7:30-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-10:45

Motility and positioning

Chair: Hans Spelbrink

9:00-9:30

Tom Schwarz (Boston, MA, USA)

Regulating how mitochondria stop and go

9:30-9:45

Nobuhiko Ohno (Cleveland, OH, USA)

Modulation of mitochondrial motility and distribution in demyelinated axons

9:45-10:15

Josef Kittler (London, UK)

Regulation of mitochondrial trafficking and neuronal function by Miro family proteins

10:15-10:45

Gyorgy Hajnóczky (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Mitochondrial calcium signaling

10:45-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-13:00

Mitochondrial fusion

Chair: Hsiuchen Chen

11:15-11:45

David Chan (Pasadena, CA, USA)

Physiological functions of mitochondrial dynamics in mammals

11:45-12:15

Andreas Reichert (Frankfurt, Germany)

Molecular insights into cristae formation

12:15-12:30

Mickael Cohen (Paris, France)

The ubiquitin-proteasome system is integral to fusion of mitochondrial outer membranes

12:30-12:45

Albert Neutzner (Basel, Switzerland)

The ubiquitin ligase RTM9 is a regulator of mitochondrial fusion and involved in mitochondrial maintenance

12:45-13:00

Guy Lenaers (Montpellier, France)

Implication of OPA1 in the quantitative and qualitative maintenance of the mitochondrial genome. Pathological relevancies

13:00-15:00

Lunch and free time

15:00-16:30

High Throughput Approaches and Systems Biology

Chair: Giorgio Casari

15:00-15:30

David Andrews (Hamilton, Canada)

Interactions with mitochondrial membranes regulate Bcl-2 family protein:protein interactions with life and death consequences

15:30-16:00

Carla Koehler (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Small molecule modulators for mitochondrial protein translocation

16:00-16:15

Robert Screaton (Ottawa, Canada)

Functional genomic screening identifies novel regulators of mitochondrial dynamics

16:15-16:30

Till Klecker (Bayreuth, Germany)

Mapping of the genetic interactome of yeast MDM33 by a novel microarray-based genome wide screen

16:30-18:30

Poster Session 1:
Mitochondrial Dynamics

18:30-20:15

Mitochondrial fission

Chair: Blake Hill

18:30-19:00

Alexander van der Bliek (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Mitochondrial fission and fusion in mammalian cells and in C. elegans

19:00-19:30

Katsuyoshi Mihara (Fukuoka, Japan)

Drp1-dependent mitochondrial fission in mammalian cells

19:30-19:45

Thierry Touvier (Bosisio Parini, Italy)

Role of DRP-1 in myogenesis and muscle regeneration

19:45-20:15

Michael Ryan (Melbourne, Australia)

MiD49 and MiD51, new regulators of mitochondrial fission

20:30

Dinner

Print Day 3

Tuesday, 13 September

7:30-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-10:45

Mitochondrial quality control

Chair: Luca Pellegrini

9:00-9:30

Thomas Langer (Cologne, Germany)

Proteolytic control of mitochondrial membrane dynamics

9:30-10:00

Jared Rutter (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)

Adding a face to the name: meeting the mitochondrial proteome

10:00-10:15

Edward Fon (Montreal, Canada)

The mitochondrial processing peptidase regulates PINK1 processing, import and Parkin recruitment

10:15-10:45

Koji Okamoto (Okazaki, Japan)

Molecular mechanism of mitophagy in yeast

10:45-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-13:00

Lipid signaling and ER contacts

Chair: Jodi Nunnari

11:15-11:45

Alessandra d'Azzo (Memphis, TN, USA)

Accumulation of GM1-ganglioside in inter-organellar membrane microdomains results in Ca2+-mediated neurodegeneration

11:45-12:00

Ji Zhang (La Jolla, CA, USA)

Substrate identification of a mitochondrial “Protein” phosphatase: an unexpected role in cardiolipin biosynthesis

12:00-12:30

Jose Carlos Fernandez-Checa (Barcelona, Spain)

Mitochondrial cholesterol in health and disease

12:30-13:00

Thomas Simmen (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

Chaperones and oxidoreductases of the mitochondria-associated membrane (MAM)

13:00-15:30

Lunch and free time

15:30-16:30

Emerging topics

Chair: Richard Youle

15:30-15:45

Mariusz Karbowski (Baltimore, MD, USA)

Regulation of outer mitochondrial membrane protein turnover and mitochondria-specific autophagy by ubiquitin/proteasome system and AAA-ATPase, p97

15:45-16:00

Kasturi Mitra (Bethesda, MD, USA)

Mitochondrial fission-fusion controls cell proliferation and entry into differentiation

16:00-16:15

Konstanze Winklhofer (Munich, Germany)

Separate pathways are implicated in the stress-protective and mitophagy-inducing activity of parkin

16:15-16:30

Fabrizia Stavru (Paris, France)

Mitochondrial dynamics in Listeria monocytogenes infection

16:30-18:30

Poster Session 2:
Function, Biogenesis, and Quality Control

17:00-18:00

Seahorse Workshop

Chris Braun (North Billerica, MA, USA)

Mitochondria in aging: new technology for assessing mitochondrial dysfunction

18:30-20:15

Mitochondrial disease

Chair: Pascale Belenguer

18:30-19:00

Eric Shoubridge (Montreal, Canada)

New players in mitochondrial translation

19:00-19:30

Massimo Zeviani (Milan, Italy)

Mitochondrial disorders: from the discovery of new disease genes to the development of experimental treatments

19:30-19:45

Brendan Battersby (Helsinki, Finland)

Gimap3, a modifier of mtDNA segregation in leukocytes

19:45-20:15

Anu Suomalainen-Wartiovaara (Helsinki, Finland)

Consequences of mitochondrial dysfunction in stem cell compartment

20:30

Dinner

Print Day 4

Wednesday, 14 September

7:30-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-11:00

Apoptosis/Cancer

Chair: Stefan Frank

9:00-9:30

Gordon Shore (Montreal, Canada)

Targeting Mcl-1 for synthetic lethality in cancer therapy

9:30-9:45

Francesco Cecconi (Rome, Italy)

Mitochondria regulate the novel non-apoptotic roles of cell death-related molecules

9:45-10:00

Lorrie Allan Kirshenbaum (Winnipeg, Canada)

Preferential targeting of Bnip3 isoforms to mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum during metabolic stress

10:00-10:30

Alexis Jourdain (Geneva, Switzerland)

Dual-targeting of the stress protein FASTK to cytosol and mitochondria

10:30-11:00

Rosario Rizzuto (Padua, Italy)

Molecular identification of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-13:15

Immunology and mitochondrial function

Chair: Eleni Douni

11:30-12:00

Zhijian (James) Chen (Dallas, TX, USA)

MAVS – A Marvelous Mitochondrial Anti-Viral Signaling Protein

12:00-12:30

Olaf Gross (Lausanne, Switzerland)

The Riddle of Inflammasome Activation

12:30-12:45

Silvia Campello (Geneva, Switzerland)

Mitochondrial shape changes amplify physiological Activation-Induced Cell Death

12:45-13:15

Takumi Koshiba (Fukuoka, Japan)

Mitochondrial Membrane Potential is required for MAVS-Mediated Antiviral Signaling

13:15-16:00

Lunch and free time

16:00-18:00

Poster Session 3:
Cell Death and Disease

18:00-19:45

Cardiovascular Disease

Chair: Luca Scorrano

18:00-18:30

Derek Hausenloy (London, United Kingdom)

Keeping your mitochondria in shape to protect your heart

18:30-19:00

Fabio Di Lisa (Padua, Italy)

OPA1 and DRP1 in myocardial injury caused by ischemia/reperfusion

19:00-19:15

Frederic Joubert (Chatenay-Malabry, France)

Down-regulation of OPA1 alters mitochondrial morphology, PTP functioning, and cardiac adaptation to pressure overload in mice

19:15-19:45

Gerald Dorn (St. Louis, MO, USA)

Essential role of mitochondria fusion in cardiac embryonic development, postnatal growth, and adult homeostasis

20:00

Dinner and Gala evening

Print Day 5

Thursday, 15 September

7:30-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-11:15

Metabolic Signaling and Disease

Chair: Anu Suomalainen-Wartiovaara

9:00-9:30

Nika Danial (Boston, MA, USA)

Metabolic fingerprints in molecular subtypes of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

9:30-10:00

Orian Shirihai (Boston, MA, USA)

Mitochondrial dynamics in obesity and diabetes

10:00-10:30

Antonio Zorzano (Barcelona, Spain)

Mfn2 controls insulin signaling in muscle and liver and is essential for normal glucose homeostasis

10:30-10:45

Masatoshi Nomura (Fukuoka, Japan)

Role of Drp1 in pancreas β cells

10:45-11:15

David Ferrick (North Billerica, MA, USA)

Flux analyses with solid-state sensors to assess cellular bioenergetics in age-related diseases

11:15-11:45

Coffee break

11:45-13:30

Neurodegeneration

Chair: Elena Rugarli

11:45-12:15

Ruth Slack (Ottawa, Canada)

Mitochondrial dynamics in acute neuronal injury

12:15-12:45

Leo Pallanck (Seattle, WA, USA)

Using Drosophila to study the PINK1-Parkin Mitochondrial quality control pathway

12:45-13:00

Fredrik Sterky (Stockholm, Sweden)

Impaired supply of distal mitochondria in respiratory chain-deficient dopamine neurons in vivo

13:00-13:30

Richard Youle (Bethesda, MD, USA)

Damage Control - How the Pink1/Parkin pathway can regulate removal of impaired mitochondria by autophagy

13:30

Lunch and departure

 

Print poster session 1

Monday, 12 September

Dynamics

P1.1 Naïma Belgareh-Touzé (Paris, France)
Restoration of the mitochondrial morphology using the N-end Rule pathway
P1.2 Stefan Böckler (Bayreuth, Germany)
Mitochondrial dynamics and its role in cell survival and aging
P1.3 Karin Busch (Osnabrueck, Germany)
Spatio-temporal organization of respiratory chain complexes in dynamic mitochondria revealed by superresolution microscopy
P1.4 Michal Cagalinec (Tartu, Estonia)
Miro1 overexpression rescued mitochondrial dynamics and phenotype in neurons overexpressing mutated Huntingtin protein
P1.5 Hsiuchen Chen (Pasadena, USA)
Interactions between mitochondrial fusion and fission genes in mice
P1.6 Manjula Darshi (San Diego, USA)
ChChd3 is essential for maintaining mitochondrial structure and function
P1.7 Mara Doimo (Padua, Italy)
Analysis of the isoforms of Opa1, mutated in dominant optic atrophy: a combined yeast and mammalian cells approach
P1.8 Mafalda Escobar-Henriques (Cologne, Germany)
Implications of mitofusins ubiquitylation for mitochondrial outer membrane fusion
P1.9 Andrew Ferree (Boston, USA)
Stimulation of mitochondrial motility in hippocampal neurons improves neurite distribution and bioenergetic capacity
P1.10 Igor Golic (Belgrade, Serbia)
Calcium-induced mitochondrial fusion in rat brown adipocytes
P1.11 Vanessa Goyon (Ottawa, Canada)
Characterization of the conditional knock-down mouse for MAPL
P1.12 Blake Hill (Baltimore, USA)
Converging on Fis1 function: evolution or intelligent design?
P1.13 Charles Hoppel (Cleveland, USA)
Metabolic states influence cardiac mitochondrial cristae morphology
P1.14 Naotada Ishihara (Kurume, Japan)
Molecular mechanism and roles of mitochondrial fission proteins in mammalian cells
P1.15 Raffaella Isola (Monserrato (CA), Italy)
Cortical adrenal mitochondrial morphology changes upon functional state: correlations to tissue and plasma concentrations of steroid hormones
P1.16 Iain Johnston (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Mitochondrial variability as a source of extrinsic cellular noise
P1.17 Atsuko Kasahara (Geneva, Switzerland)
Mitochondrial morphology controls differentiation of embryonic stem cells into cardiomyocytes via a novel pathway of Notch regulation by calcineurin
P1.18 David Kashatus (Durham, USA)
RalA and RalBP1 regulate mitochondrial fission at mitosis
P1.19 Mireille Khacho (Ottawa, Canada)
AIF modulates mitochondrial structure and function through its interaction with OPA1
P1.20 Anna Karina Larsen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Polycation-mediated changes in mitochondrial morphology and cellular toxicity
P1.21 Sunan Li (Baltimore, USA)
Regulation of mitochondrial fission complexes and mitochondrial division by deubiquitinase USP30
P1.22 Lilla' Lionetti (Naples, Italy)
Liver mitochondrial function and fusion-fission balance are differently affected by high fat diet rich in lard or fish oil in rat
P1.23 Yuliang Ma (La Jolla, USA)
Potential role of DAKAP1 for mitochondria fusion dynamics
P1.24 Raffaella Magnoni (Århus N, Denmark)
Heterozygous Hsp60 knock-out mice represent a model of hereditary spastic paraplegia type 13
P1.25 Lorena Marin-Buera (Madrid, Spain)
Functional interaction of BCS1L and LETM1 in complex III deficiency
P1.26 Bisan Mehdawy (Rome, Italy)
RTN-1C overexpression induces disruption of Ca2+ signalling, autophagy and alterations in mitochondrial dynamics
P1.27 Prashant Mishra (Pasadena, USA)
Mitochondrial inner membrane fusion is dependent on respiratory state
P1.28 Deborah Paola Naon (Padua, Italy)
Alternatively spliced variants of Mitofusin 2 control endoplasmic reticulum morphology and tethering to mitochondria
P1.29 Matthew Norton (Ottawa, Canada)
Genome-wide RNAi-screen identifies novel regulators of mitochondrial morphology
P1.30 Björn Oettinghaus (Basel, Switzerland)
Genetic dissection of the relationship between cytochrome c release and mitochondrial fragmentation during apoptosis
P1.31 Catherine Palmer (Bundoora, Australia)
Mid49 and mid51: novel components of mitochondrial fission
P1.32 Yong-Yea Park (Suwon, Kyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea)
The expression levels of Mfn1 in oxidative stress induced mitochondrial hyper-fusion is controlled by mitochondrial E3 ligase, MARCH5
P1.33 David Patten (Ottawa, Canada)
The role of OPA1 in mitochondrial function during starvation
P1.34 Lydie Plecitá-Hlavatá (Prague, Czech Republic)
Is there any relationship between remodeling of mitochondrial network and redox environment under hypoxia?
P1.35 Gabriela Plucinska (Munich, Germany)
Imaging mitochondrial transport in vivo
P1.36 Katharina Rehklau (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
The actin-depolymerizing proteins ADF and n-cofilin are critical for mitochondrial morphology
P1.37 Alessandro L Riva (Monserrato (CA), Italy)
Effects of selected nucleotides on cardiac mitochondrial cristae structure
P1.38 Thomas Rival (Marseille, France)
Inner membrane protein PMI is a novel determinant of mitochondrial morphogenesis that is required for mitochondrial metabolism, neuronal function and organism survival
P1.39 Jarungjit Rujiviphat (Toronto, Canada)
Understanding the molecular mechanism of Mgm1 in mitochondrial dynamics
P1.40 Rémy Saunier (Orsay, France)
A subunit of the proteasome lid is involved in the regulation of the fission events of mitochondria and peroxisome
P1.41 Alex Sheftel (Ottawa, Canada)
Assaying iron delivery to mitochondria for high throughput screening
P1.42 Timothy Shutt (Ottawa, Canada)
Mitochondrial fusion is actively repressed in primary tissues, requires ROS and is activated specifically in response to stress
 
P1.43 Antonina Shvetsova (Oulu, Finland)
Om45p function is linked to mitochondrial morphology and dynamics
P1.44 Vincent Soubannier (Ottawa, Canada)
A novel vesicular transport pathway shuttles cargo from mitochondria to lysosomes
P1.45 Ayumu Sugiura (Tokyo, Japan)
Functional regulation of Mfn2 by mitochondrial ubiquitin ligase MITOL
P1.46 Christin Tischner (Cologne, Germany)
Regulation of mitochondrial morphology by PGC-1α
P1.47 Tatiana Varanita (Padua, Italy)
Opa1 overexpressing mice are protected from cell death by multiple stimuli in vivo
P1.48 Corinna Wagner (Heidelberg, Germany)
Alterations of mitochondrial morphology in HPV induced carcinogenesis
P1.49 Christian Wurm (Göttingen, Germany)
Submitochondrial protein distributions at the nanoscale: The distribution of Tom20 is adjusted to the cellular conditions and exhibits an inner-cellular gradient
P1.50 Marta Zaninello (Padua, Italy)
Pathogenic mutants of Opa1 decrease axonal mitochondria in primary retinal ganglion cells
Print poster session 2

Tuesday, 13 September

Function, Biogenesis, and Quality Control

P2.1 Giuseppe Arena (Rome, Italy)
A novel substrate of PINK1 at the crossroad between autophagy and apoptosis pathways in a cell model of neurodegeneration 
P2.2 Pascale Belenguer (Toulouse, France)
Impact of  OPA1 on neuronal oxidative metabolism and synaptic transmission
P2.3 Lena Boettinger (Freiburg, Germany)
Role of mtHsp70 in mitochondrial homeostasis
P2.4 Christopher Carroll (Helsinki, Finland)
Mitochondrial regulation by the amino acid response pathway
P2.5 Valentina Fracasso (Milan, Italy)
Functional analysis of AFG3L2 mutations causing spinocerebellar ataxia type 28 (SCA28)
P2.6 Marc Germain (Ottawa, Canada)
AIF deficiency activates a Lkb1-regulated survival pathway dependent on PGC1α 
P2.7 Sarah Hewitt (Ottawa, Canada)
Regulation of DJ-1 and Parkin translocation to mitochondria
P2.8 Kenta Katayama (Tokyo, Japan)
Cardiolipin plays important roles in plant development
P2.9 Sung-Woo Kim (Calgary, Canada)
Modulation of tumor cell mitochondrial dynamics by mitochondrial Hsp40 
P2.10 Ruanne Lai (Freiburg, Germany)
The BimEL complex at the outer mitochondrial membrane
P2.11 Seungmin Lee (Stockholm, Sweden)
Loss of Parkin does not affect neurodegenerative progression in MitoPark mice
P2.12 Valerie Lefebvre (Ottawa, Canada)
A genome-wide RNA interference screen identifies novel regulators of Parkin recruitment to mitochondria 
P2.13 Chunyan Liao (Oxford, United Kingdom)
OPA1 is required for correct mitochondrial turnover, distribution and mtDNA maintenance
P2.14 Anne Kathrin Lutz (Munich, Germany)
Several Parkinson's disease-associated genes converge at the level of mitochondrial integrity
P2.15 Stefania Magri (Milan, Italy)
Concurrent mutations in AFG3L2 and paraplegin in patients with spinocerebellar degeneration
P2.16 Francesca Maltecca (Milan, Italy)
Mitochondrial network fragmentation caused by enhanced OPA1 processing leads to impaired mitochondrial calcium uptake in Afg3l2 null cells
P2.17 Roberta Marongiu (New York, USA)
The mitochondrial protease ClpP stabilizes and regulates the submitochondrial localization of the Parkinson’s disease associated kinase PINK1
P2.18 Denis Martinvalet (Geneva, Switzerland)
Molecular mechanism of the mitochondrial entry of the cytotoxic proteins granzyme A and B
P2.19 Gian-Luca McLelland (Montreal, Canada)
Parkin participates in a vesicular mitochondrial quality control pathway
P2.20 Francesca Meloni (Parma, Italy)
SDHAF1/ SDH6 a gene required for assembly of succinate dehydrogenase
P2.21 Nicoleta Moisoi (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Mitochondria stress response and autophagy
P2.22 Daniel Curtis (Cambridge, USA)
A novel regulator of PINK1/Parkin-mediated mitophagy
P2.23 Thomas O'Brien (Gainesville, USA)
Specialized ribosomes in human mitochondria and their role in apoptosis
P2.24 Laura Osellame (London, United Kingdom)
Mitochondrial dysfunction in lysosomal storage disorders: linking defects in autophagy with neurodegeneration in parkinson’s disease
P2.25 Denis Ottolini (Padua, Italy)
DJ-1 is a multifunctional protein: its possible role in the control of cellular Ca2+ homeostasis
P2.26 Catarina Pinho (Stockholm, Sweden)
Characterization of the mitochondrial peptidase hPreP in SHSY5Y cell lines
P2.27 Anna Raffaello (Padua, Italy)
A forty-kilodalton protein of the inner membrane is the mitochondrial calcium uniporter
P2.28 Nina Rajala (Tampere, Finland)
Dynamic association of mtDNA with a membrane-associated Twinkle- containing replication platform
P2.29 Sanjana Rao (Freiburg, Germany)
PKA regulates the biogenesis of tom40 and tom22 in yeast mitochondria
P2.30 Julieta Rivera (Quéretaro, Mexico)
Changes in the 24-h rhythmicity of liver in the mitochondrial β-oxidation regulators when feeding is restricted to two daytime hours
P2.31 Elena Rugarli (Cologne, Germany)
Lack of AFG3L2 causes neurodegeneration by affecting mitochondrial protein synthesis
P2.32 Antonella Scorziello (Naples, Italy)
Nuclear encoded NCX3 regulates, through an AKAP121-anchored signalling complex, mitochondrial calcium handling on the outer membrane 
P2.33 Shiori Sekine (Tokyo, Japan)
Mitochondrial membrane potential loss induces cleavage of mitochondrial protein phosphatase PGAM5
 
P2.34 Aditi Sood (Quebec, Canada)
Proteolytic elimination of mammalian Opa1 mediated by the metabolically controlled activity of a novel mitochondrial cysteine protease
P2.35 Jon Steichen (La Jolla, USA)
Regulation of mitochondrial function by protein kinase A through interaction with Src
P2.36 Fumi Suomi (Oulu, Finland)
Seeking the origin of the mitochondrial acetyl Co-A carboxylase
P2.37 Lubica Supekova (La Jolla, USA)
Identification of structural elements of nuclear-encoded Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Atp6 that limit its allotopic expression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
P2.38 Kohsuke Takeda (Tokyo, Japan)
Prevention of apoptosis by mitochondrial phosphatase PGAM5 in the mushroom body is crucial for heat shock resistance in Drosophila melanogaster
P2.39 Dorien van Dartel (Wageningen, Netherlands)
Characterization of mitochondrial metabolism upon embryonic stem cell differentiation using whole genome transcriptome analysis
P2.40 Lena-Sophie Wenz (Freiburg, Germany)
The biogenesis of the central mitochondrial fusion component Ugo1 involves Tom70 and Mim1
P2.41 Elena Ziviani (Geneva, Switzerland)
Regulation of mitochondria-endoplasmic reticulum tethering by parkin: implication for Parkinson’s disease
P2.42 Max Harner (Martinsried, Germany)
The mitochondrial contact site proteins, determinants of mitochondrial architecture
Print poster session 3

Wednesday, 14 September

Cell Death and Disease

P3.1 Brittany Beauchamp (Ottawa, Canada)
Altered skeletal muscle metabolism and resistance to weight loss in a diet-induced epigenetic mouse model
P3.2 Michael Breckwoldt (Munich, Germany)
Mitochondrial oxidative stress is a hallmark of disease progression in animal models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and spinal cord injury as revealed by in vivo imaging
P3.3 Joerg Burgstaller (Vienna, Austria)
Male germline transfer of mitochondria introduced by injection of ooplasm into oocytes of the mouse
P3.4 Tito Cali' (Padua, Italy)
Analysis of the effects of alpha-synuclein on mitochondrial Ca2+ homeostasis
P3.5 Michelangelo Campanella (London, United Kingdom)
Mitochondrial dependent apoptosis is regulated by the IF1 /F1Fo-ATPsynthase ratio of expression
P3.6 Georgia Campbell (Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
Mitochondrial DNA deletions do not have a replicative advantage in human muscle
P3.7 Cristina Cerqua (Padua, Italy)
Functional characterization of cytochrome c mutations
P3.8 Lisa Chakrabarti (Loughborough, United Kingdom)
Mitochondrial dysfunction in NnaD mutant flies and Purkinje cell degeneration mice reveals a role for Nna proteins in neuronal bioenergetics
P3.9 Yun Chen (St. Louis, USA)
Mitofusin 2 controls cardiac mitochondria replication
P3.10 Mauro Corrado (Geneva, Switzerland)
Activation induced cell death reveals a crosstalk between inhibition of autophagy and mitochondrial fragmentation in the amplification of apoptosis
P3.11 Yi Dai (Shanghai, China)
Inducible nitric oxide synthase-mediated alteration of mitochondrial OPA1 expression in glaucomatous rat retina
P3.12 Marcela Davila Lopez (Göteborg, Sweden)
Identification of novel mutations causing mitochondrial diseases by bioinformatics analysis of next generation sequencing data
P3.13 Antigoni Diokmetzidou (Athens, Greece)
Mitoprotection by αB-crystallin overexpression: a key mechanism in the rescue of desmin-deficient heart failure
P3.14 Eleni Douni (Vari, Greece)
A novel member of the DNAJC family localized in mitochondria causes neuromuscular disease and immune abnormalities in mice
P3.15 Frank Edlich (Freiburg, Germany)
Bax and Bcl-xL co-retrotranslocate into the cytosol to inhibit Bax in healthy cells
P3.16 Erika Fernandez-Vizarra (Zaragoza, Spain)
Molecular basis of reversible respiratory chain deficiency myopathy, the most treatable of all mitochondrial diseases
P3.17 Riccardo Filadi (Padua, Italy)
Effects of Presenilin mutants, linked to Familial Alzheimer’s Disease, on ER-mitochondria interactions and Ca2+ cross-talk
P3.18 Ana J. García Sáez (Heidelberg, Germany)
Analysis of pore activity of pro- and antiapoptotic Bcl-2 proteins at the single vesicle level shows differences in the permeabilization mechanism that relate to their function in apoptosis
P3.19 Cecilia Gelfi (Segrate, Italy)
Differential proteomics of subsarcolemmal and intermyofibrillar mitochondria in rat cardiac muscle aging
P3.20 Alexandra Gotz (Helsinki, Finland)
Exome sequencing identifies mitochondrial alanyl-tRNA synthetase mutations in infantile mitochondrial cardiomyopathy
P3.21 Veronica Granatiero (Padua, Italy)
The role of calcium homeostasis and autophagy in human complex I deficiency
P3.22 Riikka Jokinen (Helsinki, Finland)
The cloning of Gimap3, a novel regulator of tissue-specific mtDNA segregation
P3.23 Marc Liesa (Boston, USA)
The mitochondrial transporter ABC-me (ABCB10) is a novel gene required for cardiac recovery after ischemia-reperfusion
P3.24 Don Mahad (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
Mitochondrial dynamics within axons and neurons following inflammatory demyelination and remyelination
P3.25 Galina Mironova (Pushchino, Russian Federation)
The role of mitochondrial lipid pore in the glutamate-induced calcium disturbance of neurons
P3.26 Giovanni Monaco (Leuven, Belgium)
Selective regulation of IP3-receptor-mediated Ca2+ signaling and apoptosis by the BH4 domain of Bcl-2 versus Bcl-Xl
P3.27 Ilse Paetau (Helsinki, Finland)
Towards a mouse model for infantile-onset spino-cerebellar ataxia
P3.28 Sarah Pambianco (Milan, Italy)
Mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophy and involvement in a nitric oxide-based therapy
 
P3.29 Patrice X. Petit (Paris, France)
The Barth syndrome (X-linked cardiomyopathy) and its atypical mitochondrial behaviour
P3.30 Rosalba Putti (Naples, Italy)
Development of muscle insulin resistance in rats fed isocaloric high fat diet rich in lard or fish oil: role of skeletal muscle mitochondrial efficiency and oxidative capacity
P3.31 Thiloka Ratnaike (Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
Why does mitochondrial disease progress? 
P3.32 Calum Redpath (Ottawa, Canada)
The Mitochondria-Associated Membrane: a point source for arrhythmogenesis?
P3.33 Katarina Reis (Stockholm, Sweden)
Miro GTPases in Parkinson´s disease
P3.34 Barbara Schellenberg (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Does Mcl-1 regulate apoptosis commitment in epithelial cells?
P3.35 Cecilia Scimia (La Jolla, USA)
The ubiquitin ligase Siah2 in cardiac response to ischemia
P3.36 Soumya Sinharoy (New Delhi, India)
Cytochrome c release from mitochondria propagates as a wave during Bid-induced apoptosis
P3.37 Maria Eugenia Soriano Garcia Cuerva (Padua, Italy)
Three dimensional blue-native gel electrophoresis and proteomic analysis reveals partners of Opa1 in normal and apoptotic mitochondria
P3.38 Marco Tafani (Rome, Italy)
Mitochondrial sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) regulates resistance to apoptosis and necrosis in different tumor cell lines
P3.39 Roberta Tufi (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Novel therapeutic approaches to Parkinson's disease. The fruit fly leads the way
P3.40 Tina Wenz (Cologne, Germany)
Increased muscle PGC-1α expression protects from sarcopenia and metabolic disease during aging
 
P3.41 Shangcheng Xu (Chongqing, China)
Over-expression of Tfam protects mitochondria against β-amyloid-induced oxidative damage in SH-SY5Y cells

Preparing and setting up your poster

The poster's maximum size is 70 cm (width) x 100 cm (height).

Correct format... poster should be PORTRAIT    poster should NOT be LANDSCAPE Wrong format...

 

The poster sessions are

  • Poster Session 1, Mon, 16.30-18.30
  • Poster Session 2, Tue, 16:30-18:30
  • Poster Session 3, Wed, 16:00-18:00

 

You are expected to have your poster up the latest by lunchtime of the day of your session. Posters should be taken down only the day after your session, during the morning, in time to free your poster slot for the following session. Posters left behind will be removed and discarded by the venue personnel.