Speaker articles

Take a look at what some of our speakers have published recently and chat with them about their research at the symposium in Sitges in October.

Keynote Speaker

Craig Thompson, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Lactate activates the mitochondrial electron transport chain independently of its metabolism

Speakers

Aleksandra Filipovska, University of Western Australia, Australia
Mitochondrial gene expression is required for platelet function and blood clotting

Lydia Finley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Metabolic regulation of the hallmarks of stem cell biology       

Isha Jain, Gladstones Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, USA
Organ-specific fuel rewiring in acute and chronic hypoxia redistributes glucose and fatty acid metabolism  

Ying Liu, Peking University, China
O-GlcNAcylation of Raptor transduces glucose signals to mTORC1    

Heidi McBride, McGill University, Canada
Mitochondrial-derived vesicles in metabolism, disease, and aging      

Christian Münch, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Omics-based approaches for the systematic profiling of mitochondrial biology

Deborah Muoio, Duke University, USA
Ketone flux through BDH1 supports metabolic remodeling of skeletal and cardiac muscles in response to intermittent time-restricted feeding

Mike Murphy, University of Cambridge, UK
A break in mitochondrial endosymbiosis as a basis for inflammatory diseases   

Erika Pearce, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Metabolism in type 2 immune responses                         

Jared Rutter, University of Utah School of Medicine, USA
Stressed to death: Mitochondrial stress responses connect respiration and apoptosis in cancer 

Leonid Sazanov, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
SCAF1 drives the compositional diversity of mammalian respirasomes              

Luca Scorrano, University of Padova, Italy
Determinants and outcomes of mitochondrial dynamics                     

Gerald Shadel, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Mitochondrial DNA replication stress triggers a pro-inflammatory endosomal pathway of nucleoid disposal                         

Anu Suomalainen-Wartiovaara, University of Helsinki, Finland
Ancestral allele of DNA polymerase gamma modifies antiviral tolerance