Mitochondrial Medicine 2007: Riding the Wave of the Future

Date:      June 13-16, 2007
Venue:   Catamaran Resort Hotel, Mission Bay, San Diego, CA
Website: http://www.umdf.org/symposium/Registration.htm

Registration is now available on line at http://www.umdf.org/symposium/Registration.htm.  

Registration Brochure is also available at http://www.umdf.org/pdf/2007_Family_Registration.pdf.

Brochures are also being mailed out this week to all UMDF members and to those who have contacted the UMDF in the past two years.

Scholarship funding is available - http://www.umdf.org/pdf/2007_Symposium_Scholarship_App.pdf.
For details, visit http://www.umdf.org/symposium/Symposium_Fundraising.htm.

Please NOTE:  The room block is filling quickly.  To ensure you get the discounted rate and secure a room at the Catamaran, book your rooms now.

We still do not have details on the Tenacious D Benefit Concert with Jack Black – we will post details and send an eblast out as soon as that information is available.

Joint Biochemical Society/ Mitochondrial Physiology Society Meeting
64th Harden Conference

Date:      September 14-18, 2007
Venue:   St Martin's College, Ambleside, US
Information: www.biochemistry.org/meetings

Joint Biochemical Society/Mitochondrial Physiology Society Meeting
64th Harden Conference
Mitochondrial Physiology
St Martin's College
Ambleside, US
14-18 September 2007

The meeting will focus on mitochondrial biochemistry, physiology and disase at molecuar, cellular and organism levels.  Key themes will be molecular mechanisms, cellular hysiology and pathology, functional genomics and integrataive biology.  There will also be an emphasis on new methodological developments and quantitative methods of analysis in mitochondrial research.

Posters are encouraged and must be submitted online by Friday 13 July 2007.

For further information visit www.biochemistry.org/meetings

Gordon Research Conferences
Molecular and Cellular Bioenergetics

Date:      June 17-22, 2007
Venue:   Proctor Academy - Andover, NH
Website: www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2007&program=bioenerg

Application Deadline: Applications for this meeting must be submitted by May 27, 2007.

Please apply early, as some conferences become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the conference is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. You will still be able to submit your application. However, it will only be considered by the Conference Chair if there are cancellations, making more seats available.

The Molecular and Cellular Bioenergetics Conference meets annually, with a rotating emphasis on one of three areas: electron transport (respiratory complexes I to IV), ATP synthases-ATPases, and cellular bioenergetics. The 2007 meeting will emphasize electron transport and respiratory complexes I to IV. While the program contains sessions centered on the structure, function and biogenesis of respiratory complexes, it also covers F-ATP syntases/V-ATPases and aspects of cellular bioenergetics, including cancer, aging and mitochondrial therapeutics, in order to convey an integrated view of current molecular and cellular bioenergetics. The traditional interest of the Conference on structure and function of membrane proteins is augmented with sessions covering theoretical considerations and sessions dealing synthetic and analytical approaches to large membrane protein complexes. The Wednesday morning session where selected posters in all areas are presented is an all-time favorite. In addition, a highlight of the 2007 meeting is a session, dealing with most recent findings on "omics, imaging and bio-nano" frontiers pertinent to energy transduction, dedicated to Dr. Britton Chance, a legendary hero of Bioenergetics. Young investigators, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are especially invited to apply, and all applicants to the Conference are encouraged to submit abstracts and prepare brief oral presentations for poster discussions.

Topics & Speakers:

• Electron Transfer, Proton Transfer, Role of Water in Proteins
  (Marilyn Gunner / P. Leslie Dutton / Judith P. Klinman / David Beratan)
• Maturation and Assembly of Multi-subunit, Multi-cofactor Membrane Proteins
  (Sabeeha Merchant / Michael K. Johnson / Stuart J. Ferguson / H-Georg Koch / Egbert J. Boekema)
• F0-F1 ATP Synthase: Structure-Function and Assembly
  (Wolfgang Junge / John E. Walker / Stanley D. Dunn / Paola Turina)
• Complex I and Complex III: Structure-Function and Biogenesis
  (Tomoko Ohnishi / William A. Cramer / Leo Sazanov / Uli Brandt / Judy Hirst / Akhil Vaidha)
• Mitochondrial Links to Apoptosis, Cancer, Aging and Therapeutics
  (Takao Yagi / Craig B, Thomson / Paul M. Hwang / Lenny Guarente)
• Molecular and Cellular Bioenergetics Workshops
  (Anthony R. Crofts / Bianca Barquera / Stephan Wilkens / Shelagh Ferguson-Miller)
• V-ATPase Structure-Function and Cell Biology
  (Patricia Kane / Michael Forgac / Tom Stevens / G-H Sun-Wada)
• Complex II and Complex IV: Structure-Function and Biogenesis
  (Hartmut Michel / Robert B. Gennis / Garry Cecchini / Marten Wikstrom / Jon Hosler / Maik Huttemann)
• From Omics and Imaging to Bio-nano Frontiers
  (A tribute to Britton Chance / O. Shirihai)

FASEB Summer Research Conferences
Assembly of the Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain

Date:      August 5-10, 2007
Venue:   Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort - Tucson, Arizona
Website: src.faseb.org/

Topics & Speakers:

• Mitochondrial structure and cristae formation
  Session Chair: Johannes Herrmann
• Andreas Reichert:
  Ultrastructure of mitochondria cristae
  
• Stefan Jakobs:
  Factors that determine the structure and function of the mitochondrial cristae
  
• Rosemary Stuart:
  Role of ATP synthase in cristae formation
  
• Luca Scorrano:
  Mitochondrial fragmentation and cristae remodeling during apoptosis
  
• Shaping the mitochondrion
  Chair; Eric Shoubridge
• Jodi Nunnari:
  Molecular mechanisms of fusion of the inner and outer membranes
  
• Luca Pelligrini:
  Phosphorylation and cleavage of PARL in the control of mitochondrial cristae restructuring
  
• David Chan:
  Role of mammalian mitofusins
  
• Heidi McBride:
  Role of sumolation in mitochondrial biogenesis
  
• Regulatory circuits controlling mitochondrial biogenesis
  Session Chair: Tom Fox
  
• Gerald Shadel:
  Coupling of mitochondrial transcription and translation
• Bruce Spiegelman:
  Role of PGC-1 in mitochondrial biogenesis
  
• Paul Hwang:
  p53 regulation of mitochondrial respiration through Sco2
  
• Regulation by proteolysis and lipid biosynthesis
  Session Chair: Ron Butow
  
• Thomas Langer:
  Proteolytic control of mitochondrial biogenesis
  
• Angus McQuibban:
  Role of the intermembrane protein PARL in mitochondrial biogenesis