Steigenberger Hotel Am Kanzleramt: Venue of Targeting Mitochondria 2023
The 14th World Congress on Targeting Mitochondria on October 11-13, 2023 in
Steigenberger Hotel Am Kanzleramt
Ella-Trebe-Straße 5
10557 Berlin, Germany
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World Mitochondria Society
14th Targeting Mitochondria 2023 Congress
October 11-13, 2023 - Berlin, Germany
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Professor Vladimir Skulachev, 87 years old – All our Condolences
Sad news came from Russia. On February 5, prominent scientist Academician Vladimir Skulachev passed away at the age of 87. He was internationally renowned and highly respected mitochondriologist because of his groundbreaking research in bioenergetics.
Vladimir Skulachev graduated from the biology and soil faculty of Moscow State University (1957), where he has been working since 1960. In 1961 he defended his Ph.D. thesis "The ratio of oxidation and phosphorylation in the respiratory chain."
In 1965-1973 he was the head of the bioenergy department of the Interfaculty Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, since 1973 he was the head of the Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry.
In 1991, he became the Director of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Biology named after Belozersky.
In 2002, he founded the Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at the Moscow State University and has been its dean to this day.
Among his scientific interests were the mechanisms of biological oxidation, transformation of chemical energy into electrical energy on mitochondrial membranes, the role of membrane potential as a factor conjugating the release and accumulation of energy in the cell. Since 2005, he has been leading a project to create a geroprotector drug based on mitochondria-targeted antioxidants.
Vladimir Skulachev, together with Efim Lieberman, obtained one of the first experimental proofs of the Mitchell’s chemiosmotic theory (Skulachev V.P., Sharaf A.A., and Liberman E.A. // Nature. 1967. V.216. N.5116. P.718-719). Using lipophilic cations and anions, they showed that energized mitochondria can accumulate cations, while submitochondrial particles, anions. In addition to the importance of the results obtained, in this work, the term "protonophore" was first introduced into the scientific literature, which is successfully used to this day. This publication was received with great interest by the scientific community and in recognition of its importance, these ions were named "Skulachev ions” by the famous American biochemist David Green. For this work, in 1975 Vladimir Skulachev was awarded the State Prize of the USSR.
Vladimir Skulachev was a Full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, member of the European Academy and president of the club of its Russian members, president of the All-Russian Biochemical Society, honorary president of the All-Russian Society of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists, full member of the Academy of Creativity; doctor honoris causa of Vilnius University.
From the first Congress “Targeting mitochondria” in the year 2010, he was a member of the scientific committee and its regular speaker. He regularly took part in the World Mitochondria Society's strategic discussions about the future of mitochondria in health and the strategies on how to progress in this subtle field.
On behalf of the WMS, Volkmar Weissig (President), Marvin Edeas (Founder), and Vladimir Gogvadze (Chairman of the board), we share our all sadness and sympathy with his family and colleagues.
The next meeting on Targeting Mitochondria will be dedicated to Professor Skulachev's legacy in the world of mitochondria.
Prof. Volkmar Weissig: Editor in Chief at the "Journal of Mitochondria, Plastids and Endosymbiosis"
We would like to anounce that the president of WMS, Prof. Volkmar Weissig, is now serving as one Editor-in-Chief in the new journal by Taylor & Francis "Journal of Mitochondria, Plastids and Endosymbiosis" along with Prof. Dario Leister, Munich, Germany.
We also mention the associate editors:
Prof. Alessandro Prigione - Heinrich Heine University, Germany
Prof. Alisdair Fernie - Max Planck Insitute of Plant Physiology, Germany
Prof. Kelvin Yen - Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, USA
Prof. Marvin Edeas - Université de Paris, INSERM, France
Prof. Sally Mackenzie - Penn State, Huck Insitutes of Life Sciences, USA
Prof. Virginia Weis - Oregon State, USA
Prof. Vyacheslav Jurchenko - University of Ostrava, Czechia
Prof. Christian Schmitz-Linneweber - Humboldt Univeritat zu Berlin, Germany
Prof. Toshiharu Shikanai - Kyoto University, Japan
Prof Iris Finkemeier - WWU Münster, Germany
This journal is dedicated to serving the biology community by publishing novel and exciting findings with high significance in the biology of mitochondria, plastids and endosymbiosis. It focuses broadly on cellular biology, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, development, genomics, biomedicine, pharmacology, toxicology, bioinformatics, and molecular evolution, as well as on organismic interactions relevant in the context of endosymbiosis. Prof. Weissig will be covering the mitochondria in the endosymbiotic journal section.
Prof. Marvin Edeas, Founder of WMS, Université de Paris, INSERM, stated that: "The World Mitochondria Society will try to connect tightly with the Journal of Mitochondria, Plastids and Endosymbiosis to disseminate the meetings information and activities".
The journal is now open for submission. You can find more details here.
World Mitochondria Society: Collecting Memories 2022
On behalf of the World Mitochondria Society, we would like to let you know that the Targeting Mitochondria 2022 memories are now accessible. Please find the images here.
Nominations for The Best Mitochondria Image 2022
The World Mitochondria Society Scientific Committee will keep accepting images until the end of December 2022! Submit a memorable Mitochondria Image you’ve taken this past year and get the chance to win a free registration for Targeting Mitochondria 2023. Image submissions guidelines.
Images will be shared on the World Mitochondria Society Linked In page. You can vote for your favorite image by pressing the like button. You can find all the nominated images below.
Mitochondrial Crystals
By Catherine Griffiths, Biomedical Imaging Unit Southampton
Mitochondrial fireworks – The Ring of Fire
By Simon Licht-Mayer, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Dorsal root ganglia neurons stained for Neurofilament heavy chain (NF200, green), isolectin B4 (IB4, red), calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP, cyan), cytochrome c oxidase I (COX-I, orange)
Ultrastructural Resolution of Different Mitochondrial Compartments
By Tasnim Arroum, Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster
Inheritance
By Therese Kichuk, PhD Student in Molecular Biology at Princeton University
This image shows clusters of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mitochondria are shown in green and the endoplasmic reticulum is shown in red.
Reshaping of Mitochondria During Diabetes
By Licia Anna Pugliese and Luca Pesce, NEST ( National Enterprise for nanoScience and nanoTechnology),Scuola Normale Superiore
Confocal microscopy image showing cytokine-treated Ins-1E cells (on the right) and healthy cells (on the left) after staining with the specific marker for mitochondrial outer membrane TOM20 (red), and DAPI for nucleus (blue) to analyze the mitochondrial structure. The images were taken through a new super resolution method called Expansion Microscopy. Scale bar: 20 μm.
MiRNA-Dependent Regulation of NAFLD Pathogenesis with Emphasis on the Mitochondrial Aspect
By Maria Bograya, Center for Immunology and Cellular Biotechnology, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
When Mitochondria Loves You Back
By Tanoy Dutta, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Confocal microscopy image showing a U-87 MG cell stained with a mitochondria-targeting small molecule organic fluorophore Quinaldine Red to study the mitochondrial dynamics
Mitochondrial Red Eye
by Agnieszka Fedoruk-Wyszomirska, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
Confocal microscopy image showing the mitochondrial network, cytoskeleton, and nucleus in MRC5 cell after FC treatment stained with MitoTracker Red CMXRos, Alexa Fluor 488 phalloidin, and Hoechst 33342, respectively.
Uncovering Where the Mitochondrion Makes its Proteins
By Rolando Berlinguer Palmini and Matt Zorkau, Newcastle University
Synthesis of mitochondrial-encoded proteins in U20S cells was labelled with the methionine analogue HPG and detected by a fluorescent azide (green). Mitochondrial inner boundary membranes (magenta) were visualised by immunofluorescent labelling of Tim23. Stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy and surface rendering was used to determine sub-mitochondrial resolution of the targets.
MIRO1 Regulates Mitochondrial Trafficking in Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts
By Michael Cangkrama, ETH Zurich
MIRO1 labeling in the mitochondrial network of skin fibroblasts
Mitochondrion Before Oxaliplatin Storm
By Toni Martinez-Bernabe, University of Balearic Islands
Megacell
By Valentin Baumgartner, PhD student at the Laboratory for Urologic Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy, University Hospital Zurich
PC-3 prostate cancer cells were stained with TOM20 to analyse the mitochondrial network. Depicted here is one “Megacell” entangling other cells with its extensive mesh of mitochondria.
The Beauty & the Beast
By Arpit Mehrotra and Deepak Kumar Sharma, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-Institute of Microbial Technology, India
SH-SY5Y cells were stained with Mitotracker-RED dye (in Red) and Hoechst dye (in Blue) to track mitochondrial networking in control (A) and synuclein transfected (B) cells, wherein beauty of mitochondrial networking was observed in control and the synuclein mediated beastly-broken network was observed upon its overexpression. Scale bar-20µm
Mitochondria run parallel in mature cardiomyocytes
By Erminia Donnarumma, Institut Pasteur, France
Adult primary cardiomyocytes (mouse) stained with TMRE (mitochondria, orange) and NucBlue (nuclei, blue).
Targeting Mitochondria 2022 Congress
October 26-28, 2022 - Berlin, Germany
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Dr. Ian Holt was Discerned the Best Scientific Award 2022
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The World Mitochondria Society awarded Dr. Ian J. Holt, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Biodonostia, Spain for his scientific contribution 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose Couples Mitochondrial DNA Replication with Mitochondrial Fitness. Dr. Holt shared his future goals with the scoentific committee: "Continuing the collaboration with Professor Spinazzola (University College London), we have developed comprehensive future plans, which have attracted new funding". Dr. Holt's future plans include:
Dr. Holt stated: "These are exciting times for us and we hope to be able to share our substantial progress with you next year." In case you missed Targeting Microbiota 2022 meeting, you can demand for the recordings/abstract book access. Listen to Dr. Holt's Talk |
Targeting Mitochondria 2022 Congress
October 26-28, 2022 - Berlin, Germany
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Dr. John Ball was Awarded for His Innovation During Targeting Mitochondria 2022
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Dr. John Ball, National Eye Institute (NEI), The National Institutes of Health (USA) received the Targeting Mitochondria Best Innovation Award. His innovative work on Mitochondria in Retinal Photoreceptors: More than Meets the Eye was awarded. Dr. Ball stated: "The finding that mitochondria in retinal photoreceptors have a prominent optical role provides a promising avenue to connect photoreceptor bioenergetics with noninvasive retinal imaging. To this end, we are currently developing our electromagnetic simulations to capture the influence of photoreceptor mitochondria on clinical imaging, and we plan to examine the connections between mitochondrial function and their optical characteristics." In case you missed the conference, you can still benefit from a 3 weeks access to Targeting Mitochondria 2022 presentations. |
Watch Dr. Ball's Presentation
October 26-28, 2022 - Berlin, Germany
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Short Oral Presentation Award 2022: Intra-Articular Injection of Mitochondria to Treat Osteoarthritis
Mercedes Fernandez-Moreno, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), Spain, was discerned the best short oral presentation award for her innovative talk on the Approach for Using Intra-Articular Injection of Mitochondria to Treat Osteoarthritis.
Nowadays there is not cure or an efficient treatment for osteoarthritis (OA), despite of its the most common rheumatology illness and a major cause of pain and disability in older adults. The relation between mitochondria alteration and OA was described in several studies in which the authors explained how mitochondrial alteration can modulate the chondrocyte function and its survival during this pathogenesis
Mitochondria have proposed as a potential therapeutic target for OA. Dr. Fernandez-Moreno and her team hypothesized that transplantation of heterologous mitochondria from healthy donor would ameliorate the OA effects. The analysis of in vivo model showed that mitochondria injection was safety and no inflammatory response was observed in the joint. These preliminary data gave them the possibility to continue studying the mitochondrial transplantation as an efficient treatment for OA.
Dr. Fernandez-Moreno stated to the World Mitochondria Society: "Taken into account our preliminary data, we will continue in the develop of more robust data generating a complete in vivo model to confirm the role of healthy mitochondria over the OA cartilage."
In case you missed Dr. Fernandez-Moreno's winning presentation, you can access the conference material here.
Targeting Mitochondria 2022 Congress
October 26-28, 2022 - Berlin, Germany
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Targeting Mitochondria 2022 Best Poster Presentation Awards
The #WorldMitochondriaSociety Scientific Committee awarded three poster presenters for the insightful research and strategic results that they presented during Targeting Mitochondria 2022. We will be looking forward to learning about their progress during the next edition.
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Peptide Mediated Mitochondrial Delivery of Temozolomide for Evading Cellular Resistance Mechanism Daniel Szames commented: "Future work involving mitochondria-targeted temozolomide include further exploring the therapeutic potential as well as exploring its use as a DNA-damage repair probe. The use of patient-derived glioblastoma stem cells will act as a relevant model to determine whether mitochondria-targeted temozolomide has clinical potential. This compound can also be used to investigate the role of other DNA-damage repair mechanisms in mitochondria; for example, to investigate the role of mismatch repair in mitochondria." |
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Mitochondrial Genomes Long Read Sequencing Methodology Applied to Multispecies for the Identification of Genetic Variants Sophie Dhorne-Pollet, Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, France |
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Mitochondria Enriched NK Cell Therapy for Solid Tumors |
If you wish to review these posters, you can order the abstracts here.
Targeting Mitochondria 2022 Congress
October 26-28, 2022 - Berlin, Germany
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Targeting Mitochondria 2022 Online Posters
Please find here all Online posters presented during the Targeting Mitochondria 2022 Congress. The abstract of each poster is included in Abstracts Book of congress.
Did you participate in Targeting Mitochondria 2022?
The all presented major & short oral communications will be available as recorded presentations shortly.
Did not attend but wish to access to the Replay :
To access to the Congress & Workshop recorded presentations and get the Abstracts Book of congress & workshop, please contact us.
Best Mitochondria Image Contest 2022
Submit a memorable Mitochondria Image you’ve taken this past year and get the chance to win a free registration for the next congress to be held in 2023! The scientific committee also accept artwork and drawings related to Mitochondria (life, death, energy, dynamics and philosophy...).
Entries must be original and contestants should be registered to the Targeting Mitochondria 2022 congress. Results will be announced at the begining of 2023.
Image Submission Guidelines
To enter the contest, please make sure to send us the following information on a Word Document:
1. Your name
2. Your complete affiliation
3. A picture of you (optional)
4. Your Mitochondria Image with:
- A title
- The description of the image
- The context of the study
and send it to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
May the best image Win!
Prof. Wallace: Keynote Speaker at WMS 2022
IIt was a great pleasure to welcome Prof. Douglas C. Wallace, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA, at Targeting Mitochondria 2022 congress. He introduced the meeting with a keynote speech on Mitochondrial Medicine : Present and Future.
Dr. Wallace is a geneticist and evolutionary biologist who founded the field of mitochondrial medicine 40 years ago. He investigates the role of mitochondria in human evolution, health, and disease.
Targeting Mitochondria 2022 Congress
October 26-28, 2022 - Berlin, Germany
Recent Advances in Mitochondrial Transplantation Therapy
Dr. James D. McCully, from The Harvard Medical School Department of Cardiac Surgery Boston Children’s Hospital, USA, will join us this year to present his most recent findings on "Recent Advances in Mitochondrial Transplantation Therapy".
Join us in Targeting Mitochondria 2022 and benefit from the experience of professional researchers in this field. Book your spot.
Targeting Mitochondria 2022 Congress
October 26-28, 2022 - Berlin, Germany
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Regulation of Mitochondrial DNA Polymerase POLG1 Proteolysis and its Role in the Progeroid Disease Cockayne Syndrome and Physiological Ageing
Dr. Miria Ricchetti, Institut Pasteur, France will join us this year to present her most recent findings on "Regulation of Mitochondrial DNA Polymerase POLG1 Proteolysis and its Role in the Progeroid Disease Cockayne Syndrome and Physiological Ageing".
The mechanisms of proteolysis and proteostasis of several mitochondrial matrix proteins are known. This was not the case for the pivotal polymerase POLG1 that ensures the replication of the mitochondrial genome. Dr. Ricchetti and her team show here a mechanism that leads to POLG1 degradation and has implications in pathophysiological ageing.
Join us in Targeting Mitochondria 2022 and benefit from the experience of professional researchers like Dr. Ricchetti. Book your spot.
Targeting Mitochondria 2022 Congress
October 26-28, 2022 - Berlin, Germany
Targeting the Mitochondrial Unfolded Protein Response in Prostate Cancer
Dr. Dhyan Chandra, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA will join us this year to present his most recent findings on "Targeting the Mitochondrial Unfolded Protein Response in Prostate Cancer".
Dr. Dhyan Chandra has identified the mitochondrial unfolded protein response (UPRmt) as a new target for prostate cancer treatment and management. His research team revealed that the two key components of the UPRmt, heat shock protein 60 (HSP60, a mitochondrial chaperonin) and caseinolytic protease (ClpP, a mitochondrial protease) work together and are required for the development of advanced prostate cancer. They observed that HSP60 acts as upstream regulator of ClpP expression and HSP60 interacts with ClpP to maintain mitochondrial function.
Dr. Chandra has also discovered a novel UPRmt (referred to as DCEM1) that inhibits HSP60 interactions with ClpP in prostate cancer cells and prostate tumors, leading to the blockade prostate cancer growth and progression in preclinical study. Since the current androgen deprivation and taxane-based therapy are not effective, these findings provide alternative treatment approaches for prostate cancer that do not rely on androgen receptor signaling axis.
Join us in Targeting Mitochondria 2022 and benefit from the experience of professional researchers like Dr. Chandra. Book your spot.
Targeting Mitochondria 2022 Congress
October 26-28, 2022 - Berlin, Germany
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