Pr Martin Kerschensteiner was awarded by the Scientific Committee of World Mitochondria Society for his Scientific Contribution

It is an honor to announce the award discerned by The Scientific Committee of WMS to Pr. Martin Kerschensteiner from Medical Center of the University of Munich, Germany for his scientific contribution about "Microscopy enables dynamic and functional analysis of mitochondria in vivo", during Targeting Mitochondria 2014.

According Pr. Martin Kerschensteiner: "Here, I want to discuss how recent advances in light microscopy can improve our understanding of mitochondrial pathology in diseases of the nervous system. Over the recent years we have developed optical approaches that allow us to visualize the structure, dynamic behavior and molecular make-up of mitochondria changes in the living nervous system. I will use our work on traumatic and inflammatory axon damage in the spinal cord as examples to illustrate how these imaging approaches can help us to better understand when and where mitochondrial pathology evolves in neurons, which mechanisms induce it and how it may be prevented."

For more information about Targeting Mitochondria 2014: www.targeting-mitochondria.com