New core equipment and funding to the CfMR by the Duchen lab

The success of the Duchen lab in obtaining funding both for the equipment and personnel working closely with the CfMR is summarised on the Divisional News blog. The new equipment will help with setting up detailed analyses of cellular respiratory rates with a Seahorse 96FX machine, while the new all-round fluorescent/luminescent Clariostar with controlled O2…

Multifaceted Mitochondria – Mitochondria Cell Symposium 2018

  The ‘Multifaceted Mitochondria‘ Mitochondria Cell Symposium will take place in Paradise Point, San Diego, CA, USA from the 4th-6th June 2018. Focusing on the many diverse and interlinked functions mitochondria play and therefore their significant implications on conditions such as metabolic disorders, cancer and neurodegeneration, this meeting will bring together a number of speakers…

Roundup mitochondria: CfMR reading list – October

Essential reading list picked by the CfMR. Covers the last month for the interest of many: From cancer metabolism to stress signalling and essential mitochondrial structures (and more) in October. mTORC1 Regulates Mitochondrial Integrated Stress Response and Mitochondrial Myopathy Progression. Khan NA, Nikkanen J, Yatsuga S, Jackson C, Wang L, Pradhan S, Kivelä R, Pessia…

Roundup: recent CfMR publications

This is a regular feature to let you know about what we have been up to recently Today we give a quick run through on our mitochondria centred publications in the last few months (May-September). For a complete publication list see here Remarkable new images/insights delving into deeper structural details uncovered novel mitochondrial features in…

CfMR members awarded two grants

The CfMR is happy to announce that two of its steering members have been awarded two grants: Firstly, the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) is funding Michael Duchen, Gyorgy Szabadkai and Angus Bain for the development of novel approaches in the study of redox metabolism. Secondly, the Michael J. Fox foundation will be funding…

CBD seminar series – 15th June 2017

The Cell and Developmental Biology Department from UCL will be holding a seminar on the 15th ofJune 2017 as a part of their seminar series. The seminar, which will run from 1-2pm at the Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT will feature two talks from Robert Bentham and Agnieszka Piatkowska. Robert Bentham, form the Szabadkai lab will…