The Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology invites you to MitOX – an annual meeting in Oxford on Tuesday 6th December, 2016. A range of mitochondrial associated research areas will be discussed including; genetics, physiology, neurosciences and cancer.

Speakers:

• Thomas McWilliams (Dundee ) – Illuminating mitochondrial turnover and architecture in vivo
• Edmund Kunji (Cambridge) – Mitochondrial transport proteins and related mitochondrial diseases
• Peggy Eis (Population Diagnostics, USA) – NUBPL genetics and    Parkinson’s disease
• Simon Lord (Oxford ) – Metformin and breast cancer metabolism
• Lisa Heather (Oxford) – Fatty acids and the Mitochondrion: Friend or Foe?”
• Damian Tyler (Oxford)  –  Imaging Human Metabolism Using Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance
• Buzz Baum  (UCL) – Mitochondral evolution
• Alex Whitworth (Cambridge) Drosophilia models of Parkinson’s Disease
• Jose Antonio Enriquez – (Zaragoza, Spain) Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA matching shapes metabolism and healthy ageing