MiP2013

9^th MiPconference - MiP2013

MiP2013: Comparative Mitochondrial Physiology

Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria. 2013-Sep-23 to 27

Preliminary titles - max. 124 participants

Work in progress

1. MiP2013 lecture on comparative mitochondrial physiology by Nobel laureate Sir John Walker (MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge, UK)
2. Kjell Johansen lecture by Bengt Saltin (Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, DK)
3. Darío Acuña-Castroviejo (Universidad de Granada, ES)
4. Pierre Blier (Université du Québec à Rimouski, CA)
5. Vilma Borutaite (Kaunas University of Medicine, LT) Mitochondrial response to heart and brain ischemia: NO and preconditioning.
6. Frédéric Bouillaud (Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, FR) Can mitochondrial parameters and ROS production be used to differentiate defects in the mitochondrial respiratory system?
7. Robert Boushel (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK) O2 delivery, diffusion and mitochondrial respiration components of VO2 during exercise in health and disease.
8. Enrico Calzia (Universitätsklinikum Ulm, DE)
9. Adam Chicco (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, US)
10. Christos Chinopoulos (Semmelweis University, Budapest, HU)
11. Liselotte Christiansen (University of Copenhagen, DK) - tentative: Heart and skeletal muscle from diseased and healthy cats.
12. Paul Coen (University of Pittsburgh, US) - tentative
13. Charles Darveau (University of Ottawa, CA) Diversity and evolution of mitochondrial metabolism: Proline as a metabolic reward for pollinators.
14. Flemming Dela (University of Copenhagen, DK) - tentative: Statins affects skeletal muscle mitochondrial respiration.
15. Andrea Dlaskova (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep., Prague, CZ) Distribution of nucleoids of mitochondrial DNA.
16. Gunter Eckert (Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main, DE) Mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegeneration - a promising target for novel drugs.
17. Schamim Eckert (Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main, DE) - tentative
18. Andrea Eigentler (Medical University Innsbruck, AT)
19. Cecilia Giulivi (University of California, Davis, US) The role of thiamine deficiency across species: from seals to Alaskan huskies.
20. Erich Gnaiger (Medical University Innsbruck, AT) The Mitochondrial Physiology Map - MiPMap.
21. Martin Gram (University of Copenhagen, DK) - tentative: Mitochondrial respiration and ROS production in response to physical inactivity in young and old men.
22. Steven Hand (LSU, Baton Rouge, Lousiana, US)
23. Eric Hendricks (Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, US) Bioenergetics of permeabilized and intact nerve cell terminals from ApoE deficient and wild type mice.
24. Anthony Hickey (University of Auckland, NZ)
25. Graham Holloway (University of Guelph, CA)- tentative
26. Charles Hoppel (Cleveland, Ohio, US)
27. Brian Irving (Geisinger Health System, Danville, USA) - tentative
28. Robert Jacobs (University of Zurich, CH)
29. Petr Jezek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep., Prague, CZ) Antioxidant synergy of mitochondrial uncoupling protein UCP2 and phospholipase iPLA2gamma.
30. Andrey Kozlov (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Vienna, AT) Regulatory role of mitochondrial ROS upon inflammation.
31. Regitze Kraunsoee (University of Copenhagen, DK) - tentative
32. Verena Laner (OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS, Innsbruck, Austria)
33. Steen Larsen (University of Copenhagen, DK) - tentative: Skeletal muscle respiration after high intensity training.
34. Hong Kyu Lee (Eulji University College of Medicine, Seoul, KR)
35. Hélène Lemieux (University of Alberta, CA)
36. Michael Lund (University of Copenhagen, DK) - tentative: Respiration in skeletal muscle, subcutaneous adipose tissue, visceral adipose tissue and hepatic tissue from the same patients.
37. Carsten Lundby (University of Zurich, CH)
38. Stine Lundby (University of Zurich, CH)
39. Heimo Mairbaeurl (University of Heidelberg, DE) Hypoxia prevents increase in mitochondrial activity by metabolic stress of cardiomyocytes.
40. Felix Mark (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Search, Bremerhaven, DE)
41. Michael Menze (Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, US) Group1 LEA protein ameliorates inhibition of mitochondrial respiration in Drosophila melanogaster Kc167 cells and isolated mitochondria.
42. Daniel Munro (Université du Québec à Rimouski, CA)
43. Andrew Murray (University of Cambridge, UK) - tentative part time
44. Marcus Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BR)
45. Fredrik Palm (Uppsala University, SE)
46. Lydie Plecita-Hlavata (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep., Prague, CZ) Mitochondrial network and cristae remodeling upon hypoxia.
47. Björn Quistorff (University of Copenhagen, SE)
48. Jeff Richards (University of British Columbia, CA)
49. Rodrigue Rossignol (Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2, FR) - part time
50. Roberto Scatena (Catholic University, Rome, IT)- tentative
51. Vladimir Skulachev (Moscow State University, RU) SkQ1, the first tool to treat ROS-induced mitochondrial pathologies, which is available in drugstores.
52. Katharina Smolkova (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep., Prague, CH) Reverse carboxylation glutaminolysis in breast cancer cells.
53. James Staples (University of Western Ontario, London, CA) - tentative
54. Laszlo Tretter (Semmelweis University, Budapest, HU)
55. Anibal Vercesi (State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, BR)
56. Dominique Votion (University of Liège, BE) The challenge of understanding myopathies in horses using permeabilized and cultured equine muscle cells.
57. Mariusz Wieckowski Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, PL) Can mitochondrial parameters and ROS production be used to differentiate defects in the mitochondrial respiratory system?

Session on high-altitute mitochondrial physiology and hypoxia

• Support by COST project HypoxiaNet for members of this network.

Pre-conference Workshop

• OROBOROS Oxygraph-2k Workshop IOC78 - limited to 30 participants (6 O2k)