Talk:EBEC2024 Innsbruck AT

In preparation

The central unifying theme of EBEC is Bioenergetics and by extension, chemiosmosis. Thus, essential topics for consideration for inclusion in the programme are oxidative phosphorylation in bacteria and mitochondria, photosynthesis, transmembrane transport of metabolites and other small molecules, passage of proteins through membrane barriers, bacterial motility and cell death via apoptosis and other mechanisms involving the mitochondria. As you are aware, in recent years great strides forward in understanding have been made in most of these fields. Thus, we recommend that these topics should provide the core of the programme. That is not to say that related topics such as mitochondrial diseases arising from mutations in both mt-DNA and nuclear genes, involvement of mitochondria in ageing and cancer and related medical issues should be excluded.

With best wishes

John

Professor Sir John Walker FRS, FMedSci

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit

University of Cambridge

The Keith Peters Building

Cambridge Biomedical Campus

Hills Road

Cambridge CB2 0XY, UK

Robert Bennett Gennis, Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry

Department of Chemistry

University of Illinois

A320 CLSL, Box 2-6

600 South Mathews Avenue

Urbana, IL 61801, USA

Mårten Wikström, Professor Emeritus, Physical Biochemistry

Institute of Biotechnology

University of Helsinki, FI

Peter R Rich, PhD, Professor Emeritus

Dept Structural and Molecular Biology

University College London

London WC1E 6BT, UK