MiP2013

9^th MiPconference - MiP2013

MiP2013: Comparative Mitochondrial Physiology

Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria. 2013-Sep-23 to 27

Preliminary titles - max. 124 participants

Work in progress

Name	Institution	Title	Status
Nobel laureate Sir John Walker	MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge, UK	MiP2013 lecture on comparative mitochondrial physiology	Keynote
Bengt Saltin	Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, DK	Kjell Johansen lecture	Keynote
Darío Acuña-Castroviejo	Universidad de Granada, ES
Nivea Días Amoedo	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, BR	Comparative biochemistry of tumorigenesis: role of mitochondria
Odeta Arandarcikaite	Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT	The protective effect of NO against ischemia induced brain mitochondrial injury
Oliver Bandmann	Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, UK	TigarB causes mitochondrial dysfunction and neuronal loss in PINK1 deficiency
Adam Beach	Concordia University, Montreal, CA	Lithocholic acid delays aging in yeast and exhibits an anti-tumor effect in human cells by altering mitochondrial composition, structure and function
Pierre Blier	Université du Québec à Rimouski, CA	Holding our breath in our modern world: are mitochondria keeping the pace with global changes?
Vilma Borutaite	Kaunas University of Medicine, LT	Mitochondrial response to heart and brain ischemia
Frédéric Bouillaud	Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, FR	Adaptation of colonocyte mitochondria to intense hydrogen sulfide exposure	part time
Robert Boushel	University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK	O2 delivery, diffusion and mitochondrial respiration components of VO2 during exercise in health and disease
Tobias Brandt	Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt a. M., DE	Structure and function of aged mouse mitochondria
Enrico Calzia	Universitätsklinikum Ulm, DE	Studying mitochondrial effects of sulfide. Does the species matter?
Joao Paulo Cavalcanti-de-Albuquerque	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BR	Skeletal muscle mitochondrial function in ovariectomized rats: a time course study and the role of estrogen replacement
Adam Chicco	Colorado State University, Fort Collins, US
Christos Chinopoulos	Semmelweis University, Budapest, HU
Felix Christen	Université du Québec à Rimouski, CA	Modulation in ROS production in arctic charr heart mitochondria: Is Astaxanthine only good for the pink color?
Malou Friederich-Persson	Uppsala University, SE	Potassium controls rat mitochondria function; in vivo and in vitro considerations
Liselotte Christiansen	University of Copenhagen, DK	Heart and skeletal muscle from diseased and healthy cats	tentative
Paul Coen	University of Pittsburgh, US		tentative
Charles Darveau	University of Ottawa, CA	Diversity and evolution of mitochondrial metabolism: Proline as a metabolic reward for pollinators
Flemming Dela	University of Copenhagen, DK	Statins affects skeletal muscle mitochondrial respiration	part-time
Andrea Dlaskova	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep., Prague, CZ	Distribution of nucleoids of mitochondrial DNA
Edward Dzialowski	University of North Texas, TX, US
Gunter Eckert	Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main, DE	Rice bran extract protects from mitochondrial dysfunction in guinea pig brain
Schamim Eckert	Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main, DE		tentative
Andrea Eigentler	Medical University Innsbruck, AT
Ana Carina Eira da Costa	University of Leicester, UK	Drosophila Trap1 protects against mitochondrial dysfunction in a PINK1/parkin model of Parkinson’s disease
Andrej Fokin	Lithuanian Sports University	H55N polymorphism is associated with impaired respiration in isolated mitochondria from liver and muscles of mice
Pablo Garcia-Roves	Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS) Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, ES	Mitochondrial respiration in different mouse tissues under patho-physiological states
Cecilia Giulivi	University of California, Davis, US	The role of thiamine deficiency across species: from seals to Alaskan huskies
Gary Glick	Lycera Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI, US
Erich Gnaiger	Medical University Innsbruck, AT	The Mitochondrial Physiology Map - MiPMap
Olga Gorbacheva	Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics RAS, RU	Cyclization of potassium in rat liver mitochondria in the functioning mitochondrial ATP-dependent potassium channel and its possible role in cardioprotection
Campbell Gourlay	University of Kent, UK
Martin Gram	University of Copenhagen, DK	Mitochondrial respiration and ROS production in response to physical inactivity in young and old men	tentative
Peter Hansell	Uppsala University, SE
Steven Hand	LSU, Baton Rouge, Lousiana, US
Hassan Hashimi	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep., Ceske Budejovice, CZ	Ancestral function of Letm1 as determined in the evolutionary diverged Trypanosoma brucei
Juliana Heidler	JW-Goethe University, DE
Eric Hendricks	Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, US	Bioenergetics of permeabilized and intact nerve cell terminals from ApoE deficient and wild type mice
Anthony Hickey	University of Auckland, NZ	Mitochondria in a changing climate? The role of mitochondrial in hyperthermic heart failure in different fish species
Graham Holloway	University of Guelph, CA		tentative
Charles Hoppel	Cleveland, Ohio, US
Brian Irving	Geisinger Health System, Danville, US		tentative
Robert Jacobs	University of Zurich, CH	Improvements in exercise performance with high-intensity interval training are facilitated by an increase in skeletal muscle mitochondria content	HypoxiaNet
Petr Jezek	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep., Prague, CZ	Antioxidant synergy of mitochondrial uncoupling protein UCP2 and phospholipase iPLA2γ
Jaap Keijer	Wageningen University, NL	Three non-invasive methods to measure metabolic health in mice using indirect calorimetry
Werner Koopman	Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, NL	Developing novel treatment strategies for mitochondrial disease
Aleksandra Kotwica	University of Cambridge, UK	Mitochondrial respiration in heart and soleus of ob/ob mice
Andrey Kozlov	Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Vienna, AT	Regulatory role of mitochondrial ROS upon inflammation
Regitze Kraunsoee	University of Copenhagen, DK		tentative
Bernard Korzeniewski	Jagiellonian University, Krakow, PL	'Regulation of oxidative phosphorylation during work transitions in various tissues results from its kinetic properties
Verena Laner	OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS, Innsbruck, Austria		Local organizer
Steen Larsen	University of Copenhagen, DK	Skeletal muscle respiration after high intensity training	tentative
Hong Kyu Lee	Eulji University College of Medicine, Seoul, KR	Building the mitochondrial medicine; need to define mtDNA variations and its function
Hélène Lemieux	University of Alberta, CA
Michael Lund	University of Copenhagen, DK	Respiration in skeletal muscle, subcutaneous adipose tissue, visceral adipose tissue and hepatic tissue from the same patients	tentative
Carsten Lundby	University of Zurich, CH		HypoxiaNet
Stine Lundby	University of Zurich, CH		HypoxiaNet
Katherine Lyabakh	Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, UA	Changes in oxidative power and intracellular redistribution of mitochondria can regulate tissue pO2 and oxygen consumption rate under circulatory hypoxia.
Heimo Mairbaeurl	University of Heidelberg, DE	Hypoxia prevents increase in mitochondrial activity by metabolic stress of cardiomyocytes	HypoxiaNet
Marina Makrecka	Riga Stradins University, Riga,LV	The accumulation of long chain acyl-carnitines is a major cause of mitochondrial damage during ischemia
Felix Mark	Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Search, Bremerhaven, DE
Jose Matallo	Universitätsklinikum Ulm, DE
Michael Menze	Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, US	Group1 LEA protein ameliorates inhibition of mitochondrial respiration in Drosophila melanogaster Kc167 cells and isolated mitochondria
Daniel Munro	Université du Québec à Rimouski, CA	Mitochondrial membrane of the longest-lived metazoan (A.islandica) are lipoxidation-resistant
Marcus Oliveira	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BR	Comparative mitochondrial physiology in blood feeding insect vectors and parasites
Rolf Erik Olsen	Institute of Marine Research Matre, Matredal, NO	Comparative study of respiartion in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, L.) cells and mitochondria from blood, heart, liver, muscle and brain
Fredrik Palm	Uppsala University, SE	Role of mitochondria function for the onset and progression of kidney disease.
Carl Pinkert	Auburn University, Alabama, US	Mouse modeling of human mitochondrial disorders
Priscila Pena Diaz	Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ
Nicolas Pichaud	Université du Québec à Rimouski, CA	Importance of mitochondrial haplotypes in the expression of metabolic phenotypes under different conditions
Lydie Plecita-Hlavata	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep., Prague, CZ	Mitochondrial network and cristae remodeling upon hypoxia
Björn Quistorff	University of Copenhagen, SE	With type 2 diabetes mitochondrial dysfunction develops earlier in liver than in rat skeletal muscle.
Jeff Richards	University of British Columbia, CA
Rodrigue Rossignol	Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2, FR		part time
Roberto Scatena	Catholic University, Rome, IT		tentative
Vitaly Selivanov	Universitat de Barcelona, ES	Analysis of bifurcation characteristics of the mitochondrial respiratory chain operation and factors determining its specificity for various tissues
Irina Shabalina	Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE	Comparative study of brown and white adipose tissue mitochondria in mice upon cold acclimation
Maria Shigaeva	Insitute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics RAS	The role of mitochondrial ATP-dependent potassium channel in the adaptation of organism to stress
Fedor Severin	Moscow State University, RU	Mitochondrially-encoded protein Var1 promotes loss of respiratory function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under stressful conditions
Vladimir Skulachev	Moscow State University, RU	SkQ1, the first tool to treat ROS-induced mitochondrial pathologies, which is available in drugstores
Erik Slinde	University of Life Science, As, NO	Comparative study of respiartion in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, L.) cells and mitochondria from blood, heart, liver, muscle and brain
Katharina Smolkova	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Rep., Prague, CZ	Reverse carboxylation glutaminolysis in breast cancer cells
Lauren Sparks	Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Orlando, US
James Staples	University of Western Ontario, London, CA	Mechanisms of mitochondrial metabolic depression in hibernation
Roland Stocker	Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, AU		tentative
Karolina Subrtova	Biology Centre, ASCR, Ceske Budejovice, CZ	Hypothetical trypanosoma protein helps to anchor the F1-ATPase moiety to the mitochondrial membrane
Kersti Tepp	National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallin, EE	Bioenergetic aspects of postnatal development of cardiac cells: formation of structure-function relationship
Jason Treberg	University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CA
Laszlo Tretter	Semmelweis University, Budapest, HU
Marten Szibor	University of Helsinki, FI
Willie van Aardt	Noordwes Universiteit, ZA		tentative
Anibal Vercesi	State University of Campinas, BR	Mitochondrial calcium transport in animal, plant and trypanosomes
Kristine Volska	Riga Stradins University, Riga, LV	The inhibitor of L-carnitine biosynthesis protects brain mitochondria against anoxia-reoxygenation.
Dominique Votion	University of Liège, BE	The challenge of understanding myopathies in horses using permeabilized and cultured equine muscle cells
Mariusz Wieckowski	Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, PL	Mitochondrial parameters and ROS production can be used to differentiate mitochondrial defects in fibroblasts from patients with mitochondrial defects
Aleksandra Wojtala	Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, PL	Comparative studies of reactive oxygen species production and the level of antioxidant defense system in the fibroblasts derived from patients with defined mitochondrial disorders
Lauren Wright	Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche	Calcium regulation of metabolism in adipocytes
Jaroslav Zelenka	Academy of Sciences, CZ	Reverse carboxylation glutaminolysis in breast cancer cells

Session on high-altitute mitochondrial physiology and hypoxia

• Supported by COST project HypoxiaNet for members of this network.

Pre-conference Workshop

• OROBOROS Oxygraph-2k Workshop IOC78 - limited to 30 participants (6 O2k)