MITOCHONDRIA: FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION
November21-24, 2010, Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Dead Sea, Israel
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Sunday, November21, 2010
12:00-13:00Registration and Distribution of Meeting Material
13:00- Welcome and opening remarks: Abdussalam Azem, Tel Aviv
Keynote lecture
Chair: Ophry Pines, Jerusalem
13:00-13:40Walter Neupert, Munich
Cooperation between different pathways of protein import into mitochondria.
13:40-14:40Light Lunch
Protein targeting
14:40- 15:05Doron Rapaport,Tuebingen
Multiple pathways in the biogenesis of mitochondrial outer membrane proteins.
15:05- 15:30Maya Schuldiner, Rehovot.
The tale of tail-anchored proteins - using high throughput microscopy to understand protein insertion
15:30- 15:55Dejana Mokranjac,Munich
The mitochondrial Tim23 preprotein translocase
15:55- 16:20Johannes Herrmann,Kaiserslautern
The mitochondrial disulfide relay
16:20- 16:45Kai Hell, Munich
Redox-regulated import of proteins into the intermembrane space of mitochondria?
16:45- 17:10Coffee Break
Translation, transcription and degradation
Chair: Abdussalam Azem, Tel Aviv
17:10- 17:35Thomas Langer,Cologne
Mitochondrial quality control and membrane dynamics
17:35- 18:00Tom Fox,Ithaca
Assembly of the Cox2 subunit of cytochrome c oxidase in the intermembrane space
18:00- 18:25Joseph Orly,Jerusalem
Mitochondrial Protein Stress Response and Regulation of the Organelle Proteases
18:25-18:50Nils-Goran Larsson,Cologne
Regulation of mammalian mtDNA transcription
19: 00DinNer
Monday, November22, 2010
8:00-9:00Breakfast
Morphology, inheritance and nucleic acids
Chair: Ioav Cabantchik, Jerusalem
09:00-09:25Benedict Westermann, Bayreuth
Mitochondrial dynamics in yeast
09:25-09:50Michael Glickman, Haifa
Mitochondria and the ubiquitin-proteasome - mutual regulation ship
09:50-10:15Joseph Shlomai,Jerusalem
Regulation of mitochondrial DNA replication: Functions of the replication initiator protein
10:15-10:40Coffee break
Chair: Varda Shoshan-Barmatz, Beer-Sheva.
10:40-11:05Yoav Arava, Haifa
cis elements and trans factors involved in mRNA localization to the mitochondria
11:05-11:30Gadi Schuster,Haifa
Polyadenylation and degradation in human mitochondria.
11:30-11:45Inge Kühl, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex
Mitochondrial translation factors in the yeast S. pombe.
11:45-12:00Martin Ott, Kaiserslautern
Mitochondrial ribosomes are platforms to organize the biogenesis of the respiratory chain.
12:00- 14:00Poster session and light lunch in the poster area
Disorders in human
Chair: Orly Elpeleg, Jerusalem
14:00- 14:25Eric Schon, New York
Mitochondrial connections in Alzheimer disease
14:25- 14:50Haya Lorberboum-Galski, Jerusalem
Enzyme replacement therapy for mitochondrial disorders-new hopes for un-curable diseases?
14:50- 15:15Massimo Zeviani,Milano
New mechanisms of disease in mitochondrial medicine
15:15- 15:40Ann Saada-Reisch, Jerusalem
The complex, complex I.
15:40-16:10Coffee break
Chair: Hanna Mandel, Haifa
16:10-16:35Dan Mishmar, Beer-Sheva
Evolutionary principles govern disease susceptibility - the maternal side of the story
16:35- 17:00Agnes Rotig,Paris
Translation deficiencies in mitochondrial diseases
17:00-17:25Ivan Tarassov, Strasbourg
Mitochondrial import of RNA as a therapeutic tool?
17:25-17:40Raffaella Magnoni, Aarhus
Heterozygous Hsp60 knock-out mice represent a model of hereditary spastic paraplegia type13
17:40-17:55Grzegorz Ciesielski, Gdansk
The role of Hsp40, Mdj1 in maintenance of mitochondrial DNA
19:15MIDDLE ESTERN DINNER at Metzoke Dragot
(departure from the hotel lobby)
Tuesday, November23, 2010
7:00-8:55Breakfast
Chair: Haim Breitbart, Ramat Gan
08:55- 09:25Nikolaus Pfanner,Freiburg
Import and assembly of mitochondrial proteins
Stress and Metabolism
09:25- 09:50Roland Lill,Marburg
The role of mitochondria for the iron and sulfur metabolism
09:50- 10:15Ophry Pines,Jerusalem
Fumarase: A journey from yeast mitochondria to tumor suppression
10:15- 10:40Coffee break
10:40- 11:05Christian Ungermann, Osnabrueck
Exploring membrane contact zones between mitochondria and the endomembrane system
11:05- 11:30Lily Vardimon, Tel Aviv
Tissue specific targeting of mitochondrial glutamine synthetase
11:30-11:45Jan Dudek, Goettingen
Sap4 is involved in the organization of respiratory chain complexes
11:45-12:10David A. Ferrick, Billerica
Advanced bioenergetic tools drive new discoveries in age-related diseases.
12:10- 14:00Poster session and LIGHT LUNCH IN THE POSTER AREA
14:00-17:00EIN GEDI SPRINGS (departure from the hotel lobby at 14:00)
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