A honor for Targeting Mitochondria 2019 to welcome Prof. Douglas Wallace
It was a great honor to welcome Prof. Douglas Wallace, Member of the National Academy of Science since 1995, during Targeting Mitochondria 2019, for his excellent talk entitled "A Mitochondrial Etiology of the Common Complex Diseases".
The World Mitochondria Society would like to thank Prof. Wallace for his participation.
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"Kissing nano-tunnels" by Patricia Morcillo
"Kissing nano-tunnels" is a beautiful image submitted to the World Mitochondria Society by Patricia Morcillo, from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York, USA, and selected by the Scientific Committee for the 10th anniversary of Targeting Mitochondria congress.
As described by Patricia Morcillo, mitochondrial communication is lost after exposure to manganese-induced Parkinsonism.
"Beautiful anomaly" by Sonja Lehmann
"Beautiful anomaly", submitted by Sonja Lehmann, from the Intitute of Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, in Aachen, Germany, is the second image selected by the Scientific Committee of Targeting Mitochondria 2019 for the 10th anniversary.
Immortalized human keratinocytes derived from patients with the hereditary skin disease Pachyonychia congenita were transfected with MitoTimer. Confocal live-cell imaging revealed the bizarre mitochondrial morphology that rarely occurs in atypical cells.
A review paper published by Prof. Weissig, president of the World Mitochondria Society
We are pleased to announce that the review paper of Prof. Weissig, president of WMS, about drug development for mitochondrial diseases, has been recently published online in Trends in Moleculaire Medicine.
We congratulate Prof. Weissig for his excellent review.
For more information and access to the review:
Drug Development for the Therapy of Mitochondrial Diseases
Weissig V.
Trends Mol Med. 2019, Nov 11
doi.org/10.1016/j.molmed.2019.09.002
The Short Oral Contribution was discerned to Dr. Jana Schulz
The Short Oral Contribution Award was discerned to Dr. Jana Schulz from Max Delbrück Center in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany, during Targeting Mitochondria 2019, which was held in Berlin, Germany, for her excellent oral presentation entitled "A catalogue of novel mitochondrial microproteins in the human heart".
The presentation of Dr. Schulz concluded that many cardiac long noncoding RNAs (IncRNAs) produce small proteins in vivo and a compelling fraction of which can be associated with the mitochondrion by computational and experimental analyses.
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Targeting Mitochondria 2019 Congress : Information / Venue / Final Agenda
Please find here all the practical information concerning the Targeting Mitochondria 2019 Congress.
1) Badges & material delivery
The organizing committee will distribute badge and materials Sunday on October 27th, from 17pm to 18:00pm and Monday on October 28th from 7:45 am in the lobby of the Pavillon meeting room.
2) Conference venue
The Congress will be held in the Pavillon meeting room.
at the InterContinental Berlin Hotel
Budapester Straße 2, 10787 Berlin, Germany
If you want to know how to reach the Hotel from Berlin Airport, click here.
3) Targeting Mitochondria 2019 Congress Dinner
A dinner is organized on Monday, October 27 at InterContinental Hotel Berlin at 8:30 PM.
If you are not yet registered, Please register here.
4) Who is attending and Networking
In order to organize your planning & meeting with attendees, please find here the list universities and industrials on the site.
5) Certificate of Attendance
The certificate of attendance will be sent to all attendees by email after the Congress.
For all information about activities in Berlin during your stay, please visit the Berlin tourist office here.
6) Final Agenda
The scientific committee published the final Agenda of Targeting Mitochondria 2019 Congress.
We look forward to meeting you in Berlin and please don't hesitate to contact us for further information.
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Keynote Presentation by Prof. Wallace: A Mitochondrial Etiology of the Common Complex Diseases
The Organizing Committee of Targeting Mitochondria 2019 congress is honoured to announce that Prof. Douglas Wallace will be joining us for our 10th Anniversary Edition of Targeting Mitochondria World Congress, which will be held in Berlin on October 28th-29th, 2019.
Prof. Douglas Wallace, Member of the National Academy of Science since 1995, is Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Human Genetics, at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Over the past 45 years Wallace has introduced mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genetics into medicine thus founding the field of Mitochondrial Genetic Medicine. In 1975, Wallace and associates showed that genetic factors could be inherited though the cytoplasm with the cytoplasmic transfer of chloramphenicol resistance. In 1980 he demonstrated that the human mtDNA is maternally inherited and in 1988 he was the first to identify an inherited human mtDNA disease, Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON). Since then hundreds of mtDNA variants have been linked to disease, see MITOMAP.org. By surveying mtDNA variation in indigenous populations around the world, Wallace and his associates were able to exploit the maternal transmission of the mtDNA to reconstruct the origin and ancient migrations of women. Subsequent studies revealed that the geographic specificity of mtDNA types was the result of environmental selection and that these “adaptive” mtDNA variants can become maladaptive in new environments generating the common variants of common diseases.
At our 10th Anniversary World Congress on Targeting Mitochondria Prof. Wallace will give a Keynote Presentation titled “A Mitochondrial Etiology of the Common Complex Diseases”.
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Prof. Carsten Culmsee, Magburg University, Germany, awarded by the World Mitochondria Society
World Mitochondria Society is honored to announce the winner of the award for his exceptional scientific contribution for the year 2019, Prof. Carsten Culmsee, from the Magburg University, Germany.
Prof. Culmsee gave an excellent communication during the 10th World Congress on Targeting Mitochondria 2019, which was held in Berlin, Germany, about the role of actin-regulating proteins on mitochondria.
During Targeting Mitochondria 2019, Prof. Culmsee presented new data on the key role of actin-regulating proteins on mitochondrial integrity and function in health and disease of the nervous system and the heart. Also, his talk shows an involvement of mitochondria damage in iron-dependent regulated oxidative cell death called ferroptosis that has been identified in several different organs and tissues, including the nervous system.
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