Talk:MitoEAGLE
Invitation cirucular 1
2015-02-24
Dear colleague:
The reason for this Email is to follow up on an idea discussed over the past year at various meetings all over the world, on a global mitochondrial network to bring together scattered data in the field of mitochondrial physiology and medicine.
The project is called MitoGlobal EAGLE or mtEAGLE, for Evolution, Age, Gender, Lifestyle and Environment. The attached summary of the mtEAGLE project is a first draft for a COST project proposal – open for discussion and further elaboration. COST Actions support networking, not primary research (see below).
In the attached draft, four working groups (WG) are suggested:
- WG1. mtEAGLE data base on gender and mt-function in health and disease
- WG2. Challenges on quality control for sharing data in mitochondrial physiology
- WG3. Interlaboratory test and outreach
- WG4. Training and data sharing
The deadline for submission is 2015 March 24. To get an idea, can you let me know if you are interested in the project in general, and which working groups you might be interested in participating?
I am looking forward to your feedback. If you agree and you are going to be ‘on board’, we would add you to the list of the (informal) EAGLE consortium:
Best wishes from Innsbruck,
Erich
- Erich Gnaiger, Ao.Univ.-Prof., Ph.D.
- Medical University of Innsbruck
- Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery
- D. Swarovski Research Laboratory
- A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Link: http://www.bioblast.at/index.php/MitoGlobal_EAGLE
- Disclosure: Dr Erich Gnaiger is founder and CEO of OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS – www.oroboros.at
Some further COST information:
- I was involved as a participant in two COST projects, ‘Mitofood’ and more recently ‘Hypoxia sensing, signalling and adaptation’:
- COST Actions are networks centred around nationally funded research projects in fields that are of interest to at least five COST countries.
- The financial support averages EUR 130 000 per year for a four-year period. - http://www.cost.eu/COST_ActionsEarly Stage Researcher (ESR) - is a term used to define a researcher whose career spans less than 8 years between the date of the PhD/doctorate (or similar experience) and the date of involvement in the COST Action. Periods of career leave have to be added to this time span. COST approved a specific strategy for early stage researchers.
