European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Mitochondria in Life, Death and Disease
In-Person Event
Oct 09 - 13, 2017
Brindisi, Apulia, ITSpeakers
OVERVIEW
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Mitochondria in Life, Death and Disease is organized by European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and would be held during Oct 9 - 13, 2017 at Sierra Silvana, Brindisi, Apulia, Italy.
Mitochondria are prominent in every textbook of biochemistry and cell biology. It is common knowledge that they are the power plant of the cell, which produces ATP by oxidative phophorylation and that this energy production requires multicomponent membrane complexes in the inner membrane. Moreover, it is also discussed in textbooks that all mitochondria have their own DNA encoding a few essential components of the oxidative phosphorylation system. The mitochondrial genome is then used to introduce the endosymbiontic theory, which explains the origin of mitochondria by a fusion of a bacteria with an archeal prokaryotic host, resulting in a system that subsequently evolved to the ancestor of all present day mitochondria.
Although these textbook knowledge of mitochondria is very important, it does not give justice to the enormous progress and conceptual advances that have been made in the field of mitochondrial biology in the last decade. This results in a wealth of novel information regarding their basic function, but it also revealed many novel roles these organelles play in the context of cellular physiology in both unicellular and complex multicellular systems. Thus mitochondria interact and communicate with other organelles. They are involved in complex metabolic networks mediating cell survival, apoptosis, redox control, calcium homeostasis and many metabolic and biosynthetic pathways.
This EMBO|FEBS lecture course will deal with a number of research areas that have a great impact on the understanding of mitochondrial biology general.
It will be organized in six sessions that include:
• Mitochondrial DNA maintenance and gene expression
• Mitochondrial biogenesis and metal biology
• Mitochondrial protein import Mitochondrial protein import
Mitochondria are prominent in every textbook of biochemistry and cell biology. It is common knowledge that they are the power plant of the cell, which produces ATP by oxidative phophorylation and that this energy production requires multicomponent membrane complexes in the inner membrane. Moreover, it is also discussed in textbooks that all mitochondria have their own DNA encoding a few essential components of the oxidative phosphorylation system. The mitochondrial genome is then used to introduce the endosymbiontic theory, which explains the origin of mitochondria by a fusion of a bacteria with an archeal prokaryotic host, resulting in a system that subsequently evolved to the ancestor of all present day mitochondria.
Although these textbook knowledge of mitochondria is very important, it does not give justice to the enormous progress and conceptual advances that have been made in the field of mitochondrial biology in the last decade. This results in a wealth of novel information regarding their basic function, but it also revealed many novel roles these organelles play in the context of cellular physiology in both unicellular and complex multicellular systems. Thus mitochondria interact and communicate with other organelles. They are involved in complex metabolic networks mediating cell survival, apoptosis, redox control, calcium homeostasis and many metabolic and biosynthetic pathways.
This EMBO|FEBS lecture course will deal with a number of research areas that have a great impact on the understanding of mitochondrial biology general.
It will be organized in six sessions that include:
• Mitochondrial DNA maintenance and gene expression
• Mitochondrial biogenesis and metal biology
• Mitochondrial protein import Mitochondrial protein import
KEY DATES
09 Oct, 2017
Event Start Date
13 Oct, 2017
Event End Date
SPECIALITIES
Molecular BiologySUGGESTED HOTELS
CONFERENCE VENUE
Sierra Silvana
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