Bioblast 2012

Bioblast Conference on Mitochondrial Competence

A Mitochondrial Festival in the Spirit of Gentle Science

2012 December 10^th to 12^th

• Location: Innsbruck, Austria
• Mitochondrial life style - from evolution to protective medicine
• Mitochondria at the top of life - their big role in sports
• Mitochondrial networks without borders - Do we need an International Mitochondrial Union?
• Crystals and science - history of science - the roots of innovation

Programme (see Participants and titles of presentations)

Start: December 10, Welcome Dinner End: December 12, Gala Dinner at Swarovski Crystal World

Aerobic capacity - a world-wide topic

Bioblasts in thin air

Richard Altmann - 118 years ago: The Bioblasts (1894)

• Representatives of National and International Mitochondrial Societies introduce their organizations

Mitochondrial festival programme

• 2012-12-12: Gala dinner in Crystal World of Swarovski

Piano Concert by Uwe Kliemt - TEMPO GIUSTO in memory of Willem Retze Talsma (englisch translation in preparation)

• MiPArt with Odra Noel and Richard Agreiter - see also Richard Agreiter and Odra Noel and MiPArt 06

Participants and titles of presentations (work in progress)

• Ali Sameh S (Helmy Institute of Medical Sciences, Giza, Egypt) - Mitochondria without borders - Health and disease - MitoLifeStyle World-Wide
• Guy Brown (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Zuzana Cervinkova (Charles University in Prague, Hradec Kralove, CZ)
• Christos Chinopoulos (Semmelweis University, Budapest, HU)
• Carolina Doerrier (Universidad de Granada, ES)
• Flemming Dela (University of Copenhagen, DK)
• Anders Garlid (Portland State University, Oregon, US)
• Keith Garlid (Portland State University, Oregon, US)
• Erich Gnaiger (Medical University Innsbruck, AT) - OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS; Mitochondrial Physiology Society
• Renata Goncalves (Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, US)
• Steven Hand (LSU, Baton Rouge, Lousiana, US)
• Mary-Ellen Harper (University of Ottawa, CA)
• David Harrison (Newcastle University, UK)
• Charles Hoppel (Cleveland, Ohio, US)
• Shilpa Iyer (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, US) - Gentle Science in the real world of mitochondrial physiology and genetics.
• Uwe Kliemt (Hamburg, DE) - Tempo giusto
• Werner Koopman (Nijmegen, NL)
• Magdalena Labieniec-Watala (University of Lodz, PL)
• Nick Lane (London, UK) - The elementary organism: chemiosmotic LUCA
• Verena Laner (OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS, Innsbruck, Austria) - MitoCom Tyrol
• Catherine Le (Colorado State University Fort Collins, US) - Mitochondrial function on Mt. Chacaltaya 5,200 m
• Carsten Lundby (University Zurich, CH) - HypoxiaNet
• Barbara Meissner (OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS, Innsbruck, Austria) - Open Innovation
• Dominik Pesta (Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, US) The effect of targeted knockdown of the Indy gene on energy metabolism in rats.
• Odra Noel (London, UK) - MiPArt
• Rodrigue Rossignol (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Bordeaux, FR) - French Group of Bioenergetics
• Roberto Scatena (Università Cattolica, Roma, IT) Mitochondria: a growing role in cancer. Some intriguing respirometric observations
• Peter Schoenfeld (Universität Magdeburg, DE)
• Dominique Votion (University of Liège, BE) - Breeding and life style towards the upper limit of aerobic power.
• George Wagensberg (CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, ES) The Total Science Museum - Systems Evolution
• Cezary Watala (Medical University of Lodz, PL)
• Lech Wojtczak (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, PL) - A life with bioenergetics.

Further contacts to mitochondrial organizations without participation

• Thangaraj Kumarasamy (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, IN) - Society for Mitochondria Research and Medicine
• Hong Kyu Lee (Seoul National University Hospital, KR) - Asian Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine

Bioblast Conference hosted by OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS

• OROBOROS and High-Resolution Respirometry

1992- 20 years high-resolution respirometry

2002- 10 years O2k

2012- this year: Houska Award

Travel options, registration and accomodation

• Information on various travel options to Innsbruck
• Registration and accomodation
• OROBOROS MiPNet Reference Laboratories: As an appreciation of your cooperation, OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS invites a delegate of your research group to join the Bioblast Conference free of charge. There may be some budget for partial travel support, the amount depending on the number of overseas-participants.

• Email: verena.laner@oroboros.at