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…
The launch for the GEE centre for life’s origins and evolution this Thursday (November 2nd) at 4pm in the Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre (UCL Anatomy Building) will feature talks given by Profs Max Telford, Anjali Goswami, Nick Lane and Chris Thompson. The event will be followed by a drinks reception held in the JBS…
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…
MitOX 2017 The 2017 MitOx meeting, on the 1st of December will take place at the Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford. It will include various short talks on subjects relating to mitochondria such as cancer metabolism, neuroscience, diabetes, mitochondrial disorders and general mitochondrial biology. You can find the the current speaker line up…
Mark van der Giezen (Biosciences, University of Exeter) will be speaking about the Biochemical and evolutionary peculiarities of the hyper-prevalent parasitic eukaryote Blastocystis in a seminar held next Wednesday (October 4th 2017) at 12:00 in the UCL Roberts Building, Room 106. Abstract for the seminar Mitochondria are the main sites of ATP generation in eukaryotes. These…
The Consortium for Mitochondrial Research together with three UK societies (Physiological Society, Biochemical Society, British Pharmacological Society) will be holding a meeting: Mitochondria: Form and Function focusing on recent developments in mitochondrial research, with discussions on their implications in understanding health and disease, as well as potential physiological targets to fight disease. The meeting will have…
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…