MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Exploring new roles for ER-mitochondria organelle contacts in neurons

Professor Franck Polleux | Columbia University .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 11 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Proteomic exploration of the scope, dynamics, and stoichiometry of lysine acetylation

Prof. Chunaram Choudhary | University of Copenhagen .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochondrial Disease in Australian Children – genomics, epidemiology and functional validation

Professor David Thorburn | MCRI .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tuesday 26 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Haplogroup context is a key element to deciding if an mtDNA variant is a mutation or population polymorphism, complete study of mitochondrial tRNA’s across multiple taxa

http://www.newcastle-mitochondria.com/joanna-elson/

Dr Joanna Elson | Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Newcastle University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Sex, Heterochromatin and Disease

Professor Richard Festenstein - Imperial College London .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

From dyfunction of the PINK1/Parkin pathway to Parkinson’s disease

Dr Olga Corti | ICM, Paris .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochondrial biogenesis: dynamic complexes for a dynamic organelle

Professor Mike Ryan | Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Management of mitochondrial proteins: sort or destroy

Professor Agnieszka Chacinska.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Origin of Native Americans: a paradigmatic case in human population studies

Antonio Torroni, University of Pavia.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mito-nuclear interactions and mitochondrial replacement therapy: an evolutionary perspective

Professor Adam Eyre-Walker, University of Sussex.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Cross-Species Genetic Mapping of Targets in Mitochondria, Metabolism and Aging

Professor Johan Auwerx, EPFL, Lausanne.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Understanding the molecular basis for drug and nutrient transport across the membrane.

Professor Simon Newstead, University of Oxford.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Erika L Pearce, Max Planck Institute of Immunology and Epigenetics, Freiburg.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Cryo-EM structures of the mitochondrial calcium uniporters

Rozbeh Baradaran, Sloan Kettering Institute .

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tuesday 18 September 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mitochondrial dysfunction and signalling in the nervous system

Dr Joseph Bateman, Kings College London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 12 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Molecular mechanisms of reversible infantile mitochondrial diseases

Professor Rita Horvath, Newcastle University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 27 July 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Tissue-specific aspects of heteroplasmy in human mitochondrial DNA

Professor Mark Stoneking, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 18 July 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Spatial organisation of mitochondrial gene expression: the role of mitochondrial RNA granules

Professor Jean-Claude Martinou, University of Geneva.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Heidi McBride, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 29 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Revealing mitochondrial function by reading mtDNA mutation patterns

Dr James Stewart, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Whole genome sequencing for diagnosis and discovery of mitochondrial diseases

Professor Anna Wedell, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Organelle-specific subcellular delivery using miothcondria-penetrating peptides

Professor Shana Kelly, University of Toronto.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Stress-induced dynamic regulation of mitochondrial STAT3 and its association with cyclophilin D reduce mitochondrial ROS production

Professor Andrew Larner, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Thomas Meier, Imperial College London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

A role for actin in mitochondrial division: effects across two membranes

Professor Henry Higgs, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, NH.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tuesday 17 April 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Drosophila models of mitochondrial toxic signals

Dr L Miguel Martins, MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

m1A modification of nuclear- and mitochondria-encoded mRNA: Rare, dynamic and potent

Dr Schragi Schwartz, Weizmann Institute, Israel.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Molecular wiring of a mitochondrial translation feedback loop

Professor Martin Ott, Stockholm University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tuesday 12 December 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Isotope tracing, flux analysis and the metabolic phenotypes of transformed cells

Professor Roland Nilsson, Karolinska Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor William Martin, Institute of Molecular Evolution, Duesseldorf.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

AMPK - a sensor of cellular energy and glucose availability, and a key interface between mitochondria and their host cell

Professor Grahame Hardie, University of Dundee.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Exploring molecular mechanisms in biological energy conversion

Professor Ville Kaila, Technical University of Munich.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Jean Claude Martinou, University of Geneva.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 06 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor David Thorburn, Murdochs Childrens Research Institute, Victoria, Australia.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Friday 16 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Aleksandra Filipovska, University of Western Australia.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Oxidative stress, ROS and free radicals - using nitroxide antioxidants for detection and protection

Professor Steve Bottle, University of Queensland, Australia.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Eating your mitochondria: why, when and where?

Dr Ian Ganley, The MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, Dundee University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Atan Gross, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

"There's something wrong with my MAM; the ER-mitochondria axis and neurodegenerative diseases"

Professor Christopher Miller, King's College London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 15:00-16:00