Bioblast 2012

Bioblast Conference on Mitochondrial Competence

A Mitochondrial Festival in the Spirit of Gentle Science

2012 December 10^th to 12^th

• Location: Innsbruck, Austria
• Mitochondrial life style - from evolution to preventive medicine
• Mitochondria at the top of life - their big role in sports
• Mitochondria without borders - Health and disease - MitoLifeStyle World-Wide
• Crystals and science - history of science - the roots of innovation
• International Mitochondrial Union: Mitochondrial networks - next steps

Programme

• Mitochondrial festival programme

• 2012-12-12 - Tyrol with a heart for sports

Final notes in the Crystal World of Swarovski

Piano Concert by Uwe Kliemt - TEMPO GIUSTO in memory of Willem Retze Talsma (englisch translation in preparation)

• MiPArt with Odra Noel and Richard Agreiter - see also Richard Agreiter and Odra Noel and MiPArt 06

Participants (work in progress)

• Sir John Walker (MBU, Cambridge, UK) ATP Synthase - the Molecule in Motion - inquired
• George Wagensberg (CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, ES) The Total Science Museum - Systems Evolution

• Ali Sameh S (Helmy Institute of Medical Sciences, Giza, Egypt) - Mitochondria without borders - Health and disease - MitoLifeStyle World-Wide
• Guy Brown (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Keith Garlid (Portland State University, Oregon, US)
• Gnaiger Erich (Medical University Innsbruck, AT) - OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS; Mitochondrial Physiology Society
• Gruber Verena (OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS, Innsbruck, Austria) - MitoCom Tyrol
• Hand Steven (LSU, Baton Rouge, Lousiana, US)
• Harrison David (Newcastle University, UK)
• Hoppel Charles (Cleveland, Ohio, US)
• Iyer Shilpa (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, US) - Gentle Science in the real world of mitochondrial physiology and genetics.
• Kliemt Uwe (Hamburg, DE) - Tempo giusto
• Lane Nick (London, UK) - Power, Sex, Suicide. Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
• Le Catherine (Colorado State University Fort Collins, US) - Mitochondrial function on Mt. Chacaltaya 5,200 m
• Lee Hong Kyu (Seoul National University Hospital, KR) - Asian Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine
• Lundby Carsten (University Zurich, CH) - HypoxiaNet
• Meissner Barbara (OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS, Innsbruck, Austria) - Open Innovation
• Pesta Dominik (Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, US) How did I become a mitochondrial physiologist?
• Odranoel (London, UK) - MiPArt
• Rossignol Rodrigue (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Bordeaux, FR) - French Group of Bioenergetics
• Thangaraj Kumarasamy (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, IN) - Society for Mitochondria Research and Medicine
• Votion Dominique (University of Liège, BE) - Breeding and life style towards the upper limit of aerobic power.
• Wojtczak Lech (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, PL) - A life with bioenergetics.

Selected topics

Richard Altmann - 118 years ago: The Bioblasts (1894)

Aerobic capacity - a world-wide topic

Bioblasts in thin air

• Representatives of National and International Mitochondrial Societies introduce their organizations

• OROBOROS and High-Resolution Respirometry

1992- 20 years high-resolution respirometry

2002- 10 years O2k

2012- this year: Houska Award]

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