The Recordati Rare Diseases Fondation d’enterprise organised a clinical mitochondrial course co-chaired by Shamima Rahman from the CfMR. Please see the flyer with information on registration here.
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…
ISCaM2018 – 5th Annual Meeting – Metabolic Adaptations and Targets in Cancer – Bratislava Wednesday, 17 October 2018 to Saturday, 20 October 2018 >>>Deadline for abstract submission extended to: July 31, 2018<<<< Invited speakers: Adrian L. HARRIS, Stephan HERZIG, Josef UKROPEC, Gyorgy SZABADKAI, Carlos SEBASTAIN, Pierre SONVEAUX, Elena RAINERO, Paolo CEPPI, Marila YUNEVA, Maria SHOSHAN, Dario LONGO,…
Congratulations Tom! The award aims to reward an exceptional contribution by a UCL student or staff member in the early stages of their career in the field of Neuroimaging. Tom is the annual award’s 10th winner. Tom is a postdoctoral research fellowUCL’s Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and the Department of Physics & Astronomy,…
The Second Annual Charles L. Hoppel, M.D. Award for Outstanding Contributions in Mitochondrial Research this year was awarded to Michael – congratulations! See details of the award here UCL Biosciences news: “Professor Duchen was selected from a highly competitive pool of nominees based on the recognition of his contributions as an innovative pioneer and world…
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…
Registration is now open for the 1st International Mitochondria Meeting for Young Scientists, which will be held April 20 – 22 in Kyoto, Japan, organised by Koji Yamano and Michael Lazarou. To go directly to registration, click here Invitation letter from the organisers: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear mitochondrial researchers, I’m Koji Yamano, a senior researcher at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute…
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…
As we reported earlier last year our own Nick Lane has been awarded the Michael Faraday Prize in 2016. Well, here is here lecture on the 1st of February. See you all there!
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