ABOUT MITOX
The Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health invites you to MitOX 2022 on Friday 8th April 2022. It's our annual meeting packed with short talks and posters on cancer metabolism, neuroscience, diabetes, mitochondrial disorders and general mitochondrial biology. This one day hybrid conference is ideal for researchers with an interest in mitochondria from both academia and pharma. It will include a range of short talks and posters on cancer metabolism, neuroscience, diabetes, mitochondrial disorders and general mitochondrial biology.
Download the full programme here.
HOW TO BOOK
Book online here.
Face to face registration is now open with a £30 registration fee. Please note that those wishing to present a poster need to register for the face to face meeting. If you have previously registered for online-only option, please feel free to register for the face event if you wish to do so.
We are currently limited on in-person numbers to 58 people.
The online-only attendance option is free of charge.
Venue: This event will be hybrid. It will take place on Zoom and in-person attendance will take place in the Academic Block at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU. See directions and map.
The last booking date for this event is TBC.
For all conference enquiries, please contact ndwrhmitox@wrh.ox.ac.uk
Abstracts
Please submit abstracts to be considered for short talks and posters to Danielle Hoare at danielle.hoare@wrh.ox.ac.uk.
In the E-mail please use 'Abstract for MitOX 2022’ as the subject line and kindly state if you wish to be considered for a talk only, poster only or either a talk or a poster.
Abstracts should be a standard conference format on a single side of A4.
The deadline for abstracts is the 20th March 2022.
SPEAKERS
Time |
Speaker |
Title of talk |
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09.00am |
Karl Morten, University of Oxford |
Welcome |
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09.05am |
Chair: Jo Poulton, University of Oxford |
First Session: Mitochondrial DNA, expression and recombination |
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09.05am |
Dan Mishmar, Ben Gurion University, Israel |
The impact of mitochondrial gene expression regulation, and its coordination with the nucleus, on disease |
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09.30am |
Ana Victoria Lechuga-Vieco, University of Oxford |
Mitochondrial heterogeneity: friend or foe?. |
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09.55am |
Yizhou Yu, Cambridge |
Parp mutations protect from mitochondrial toxicity in Alzheimer’s disease |
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10.10am |
Hansong Ma, University of Cambridge |
Mitochondrial recombination reveals genetic interactions that modulate the phenotypic expression of pathogenic mtDNA mutants |
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10.35am |
Coffee Break |
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11.00am |
Chair: Rhiannon McGeehan, University of Portsmouth |
Second Session: Cancer |
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11.00am |
Payam Gammage, Glasgow |
The impact of cancer-associated mtDNA mutations on tumour metabolism and the microenvironment |
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11.25am |
Markus Ralser, The Francis Crick Institute, MRC |
The metabolic growth limitations of petite cells lacking the mitochondrial genome |
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11.50am |
Nuno Santos Leal, University of Cambridge |
Contacts between mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum protect from mitochondrial toxicity by activating the PERK/ATF4 branch of ER stress |
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12.05pm |
Mike Duchen, UCL |
Rewiring cell signalling pathways in pathogenic mtDNA mutations |
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12.30pm |
Sponsors Talks BMG Labtech, Promega, Agilent, Atlantic imaging |
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13.00pm |
Lunch and Poster Session I |
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14.00pm |
Katharina Schlacher, Houston, USA |
BRCA/FANC tumor suppressor roles in mitochondrial genome instability and inflammation |
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14.25pm |
Chair: Tom Nichol, University of Oxford) |
Third Session; Mitophagy and Dynamics |
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14.25pm |
Pollard Lecture William Mair (Harvard) |
Metabolic Flexibility, Mitochondrial Dynamics & Healthy Aging |
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15.05pm |
Brent Ryan, University of Oxford |
Integrating animal and cellular models to understand mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease |
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15.20pm |
Tea & Poster Session II |
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16.00pm |
Chair: Kerstin Timm, University of Oxford |
Fourth Session: Mitochondrial medicine |
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16.00pm |
Leanne Hodson, University of Oxford |
Tracing fat to determine factors influencing mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation in human |
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16.25pm |
Lisa Heather, University of Oxford |
Diabetic cardiac mitochondria are resistant to the regulation of respiration by lipid intermediates |
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16.50pm |
Robin Klemm, University of Oxford |
Mechanisms controlling de novo lipogenesis based lipid droplet expansion during adiopcyte differentiation |
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17.15pm |
Isabella Panfoli, Genova |
The polyphenol Cirsiliol prevents the light-induced oxidative damage of the retinal rod outer segment in vitro |
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17.30pm |
Close & Poster Prizes |
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