The 2nd UCL‐JSPS international Symposium Mitochondria – from fundamental aspects to medical importance Date: June 25th-26th, 2012 Location: UCL Wilkins Building, North Closure; UCL Main Campus , Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT Contact: Takehiro Yasukawa (t.yasukawa@ucl.ac.uk) Register here Download full program here
The MRC’s Dr Josef Kittler is one of ten UCL researchers that have received European Research Council (ERC) Starting Investigator grants with a total value of more than £12.4 million. The number of grants awarded to UCL under this scheme doubled this year compared to 2010. The researchers were chosen from among a record 4,080…
Warmest congratulations to Miss Talia Atkin of the UCL Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (NPP), who struck Gold, and a prize of £3,000, at a competition in the House of Commons for the excellence of her scientific research. Talia presented her biological research to more than one hundred politicians and a panel of…
Prof Michael Duchen has been awarded a project grant from the Parkinson’s Disease Society to study ‘interactions between mitochondrial biogenesis and complex I inhibition in the pathogenesis of Parkinsons’ Disease’ This will provide funding for Dr Juan Carlos Corona to work with Prof Duchen for two years. Parkinson’s UK website
Michelangelo Campanella, Lecturer at the Royal Veterinary College and member of CfMR, wins funding through BBSRC New Investigator award. The award is entitled: “Role of the mitochondrial Translocator Protein (mTSPO) in cell homeostasis: a molecular pathway in signalling and self-conservation mechanisms”. Links: Dr Campanella
Britton Chance was one of the truly great pioneers of 20th century mitochondrial bioenergetics. Way ahead of his time, he had an enormous influence on the field as a whole and on many individual careers as well, and he will be much missed. For biography please see: http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1900s/chance_britton.html
Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment) has won the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books. In his book Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (published by Profile, 2009), Dr Lane charts the history of life on Earth by describing the ten greatest inventions of life, based on their historical impact,…
The evolution of complex life is strictly dependent on mitochondria, the tiny power stations found in all complex cells, according to a new study by Dr Nick Lane, from UCL (University College London), and Dr William Martin, from the University of Dusseldorf. “The underlying principles are universal. Energy is vital, even in the realm of…
Funding for a Mitochondrial Symposium has been awarded to Dr Takehiro Yasukawa by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), London. Together with several CfMR members (Prof. Sir Salvador Moncada, Prof. Michael Duchen, Prof. Mervyn Singer, Dr Gyorgy Szabadkai and Dr Josef Kittler) and Japanese scientists, Dr Takehiro Yasukawa, BBSRC David Phillips Fellow…
Professors Michael Duchen and Francesco Muntoni have been awarded grants to study the cellular mechanisms of a group of muscle diseases called the central core myopathies with a project grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) of $375,000 and a contribution of £69,864 from the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign (MDC) to supplement and extend a BBSRC…