bioenergetics
 

2007 Annual Meeting Program

Subroup Chair, Marco Colombini

 

Morning Symposium: Structural Biology: Proteomics and Bioenergetics

 

Co-Chairs:     James P. Allen, Arizona State University

Edward A. Berry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 

9:00 am

Structural genomics: Technologies for all structural biologists

Thomas Terwillger,  Los Alamos National Laboratory

 

9:30 am

Crystallization of integral membrane proteins from photosynthetic organisms

Petra Fromme, Arizona State University

 

!0:00 am

Crystal structure of the hydrophilic domain of respiratory Complex I from Thermus thermophilus

Leonid Sazanov, Medical Research Council, Cambridge

 

10:30 Break

 

11:00 am

Recent advances in the structural analysis of bacterial cytochrome bc1 complex and in the study of quinone binding in the beef complex

Chang-An Yu, Oklahoma State University

 

11:30 am

Inter-protein electron transfer between cytochrome c2 and the reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Melvin Okamura, University of California San Diego

 

12:00 noon - 1:30 pm  Lunch
 
1:30 pm
Young Bioenergeticist Award
 
1:35 pm
Short presentation by the awardee

 

Afternoon Symposium: The outer limits of bioenergetics: The mitochondrial outer membrane

Co-Chairs:     Marco Colombini, University of Maryland

                    Carmen Mannella, Wadsworth Center, NYDOH

 

1:45 pm

NMR Studies of the structure and interactions of human VDAC1

Thomas Malia and Gerhardt Wagner, Harvard University

 

2:15 pm

Mitochondrial fusion:  the role of the Fzo1p and Mgm1p GTPases.

 

Robert Jensen, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 

2:45 pm

Mitochondrial-ER interactions and calcium signaling
Gyorgy Hajnoczky, Thomas Jefferson University
 
3:15 pm Break
 
3:45 pm 
Permeabilization of the outer membrane by ceramide channels: role in apoptosis
Marco Colombini, University of Maryland
 
4:15: pm
The role of mitochondrial carrier homolog 2 in regulation of apoptosis
Atan Gross, Weizmann Institute
 

5:00 pm          Business Meeting

 
7:00 pm        Subgroup Dinner
 

 

2006 Annual Meeting Program

Subroup Chair, Marco Colombini
Morning Symposium: Mitochondria and Regulation of the Cellular Energy State
Uwe Schlattner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Chair
Petras Dzeja, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Co-Chair
 
9:00 am
Molecular Architecture of Creatine Kinase Microcompartments 
in Mitochondria and Cytosol.
Uwe Schlattner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
 
9:30 am
The Frank-Starling Law of the Heart and Cellular Mechanisms of Respiration Regulation.
Valdur Saks, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
 
10:00 am
Phosphotransfer Networks and Cellular Energy Partition.
Petras Dzeja, Mayo Clinic and Foundation
 
10:30 am  Break
 
11:00 am
Mitochondrial Hexokinases: Guardians of the Mitochondria and More.
Nissim Hay, University of Chicago 
 
11:30 am
Cellular Energy Sensing and Signaling by AMP-activated Protein Kinase.
William Winder, Brigham Young University
 
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm  Lunch
 
1:30 pm
Young Bioenergeticist Award
 
1:35 pm
Short presentation by the awardee
 

Afternoon Symposium: Systems Biology: Mitochondria Are not Alone

(Supported in part by the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation and Avanti Polar Lipids)

Hartmut Wohlrab, Boston Biomedical Research Institute and Harvard Medical School, and  Svitlana Berezhna, The Scripps Research Institute, Co-Chairs

 

1:45 pm

Studying Cell Line Models of Disease using Metabolic Profiling and Small Molecule Screening.

Arvind Ramanathan, Broad Institute of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

2:15 pm
Obesity, Diabetes, and Circadian Gene Oscillators.

Joseph Bass, Northwestern University

 

2:45 pm

Systematic Predictions and Profiles of Mitochondrial Function.

Vamsi Mootha, Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute (Dr. Mootha's talk sponsored in part with funding from the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation)

 

3:15 pm  Break

 

3:45 pm

How to Chew Data from High-Throughput Methods so that the Low-Throughput Brain Can Digest It.

Luis A. Nunes Amaral, Northwestern University

 

4:15 pm

Identification and Characterization of MAVS, A Mitochondrial Anti-viral Signaling Protein that Activates NF-κB and IRF3.

Rashu B. Seth, HHMI and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

 

5:00 pm

Business Meeting

All Members welcome

Major Agenda Items

Nomination of 3 new members of the Subgroup Council

Topics for 2007 Symposia

 

7:00 pm

Subgroup Dinner

Baci Trattoria - $40, reservations required

Contact Larry at lawrence.prochaska@wright.edu to reserve your spot

 


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