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 protective medicine
• Mitochondria at the top of life - their big role in sports
• History of science - the roots of innovation: From fierce competition to ‘Gentle Science’
• Mitochondrial networks without borders - Do we need an International Mitochondrial Union?

Scientific programme

>> See Participants and titles of presentations

Start: December 10, Welcome Dinner at Hotel Grauer Bär

End: December 12, Gala Dinner and Concert at Swarovski Crystal World

Topics:

Aerobic capacity - a world-wide topic

Bioblasts in thin air

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

• Representatives of National and International Mitochondrial Societies introduce their organizations

• Bioblast International Scientific Committee

Mitochondrial festival programme

• 2012-12-12: Gala dinner in Crystal World of Swarovski

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

MiPArt by Odra Noel

• Bioblast MiPArt Exhibition - Light in the Powerhouse of the Cells

Odra Noel (London) and Richard Agreiter (Steinberg am Rofan), personal introduction by the artists

• Time: 2012-12-11, after dinner
• Location: Medieval City Centre of Innsbruck

MiPArt 12 - see also Richard Agreiter and Odra Noel and MiPArt 06

Participants and titles of presentations

Work in progress

• Darío Acuña-Castroviejo (Universidad de Granada, Spain) Melatonin and the quality of life: a magic antioxidant with mitochondrial action.
• Sameh S Ali (Helmy Institute of Medical Sciences, Giza, Egypt) - Mitochondria without borders - Health and disease - MitoLifeStyle World-Wide
• Frédéric Bouillaud (Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, FR) Coming from the dark ages of mitochondria: sulfide a deadly snare, the best redox food and a signal.
• Robert C Boushel (University of Copenhagen, DK)
• Martin Burtscher (Univ. Innsbruck, AT) - tentative
• Guy Brown (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Zuzana Cervinkova (Charles University in Prague, Hradec Kralove, CZ)
• Miroslav Cervinka (Charles University in Prague, Hradec Kralove, CZ)
• Christos Chinopoulos (Semmelweis University, Budapest, HU)
• Flemming Dela (University of Copenhagen, DK)
• Carolina Doerrier (Universidad de Granada, ES)
• Michael Duchen (University College London, UK)
• Germaine Esames (Universidad de Granada, ES)
• Mario Fasching (OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS, Innsbruck, AT) O2k-Fluorimetry - a MitoCom project.
• Antonio Galina (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BR) - tentative
• Pablo Garcia-Roves (Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, ES) - tentative
• Anders Garlid (Portland State University, Oregon, US)
• Keith Garlid (Portland State University, Oregon, US)
• Erich Gnaiger (Medical University Innsbruck, AT) - OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS; MitoCom; Mitochondrial Physiology Society
• Steven Hand (LSU, Baton Rouge, Lousiana, US)
• Mary-Ellen Harper (University of Ottawa, CA)
• David Harrison (Newcastle University, UK) - MitoCom
• Graham Holloway (University of Guelph, CA)
• Charles Hoppel (Cleveland, Ohio, US)
• Shilpa Iyer (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, US) - Gentle Science in the real world of mitochondrial physiology and genetics.
• Uwe Kliemt (Hamburg, DE) - Tempo giusto
• Gergely Kiss (Semmelweis University, Budapest, HU)
• Csaba Konrad (Semmelweis University, Budapest, HU)
• Werner Koopman (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, NL)
• Magdalena Labieniec-Watala (University of Lodz, PL)
• Nick Lane (London, UK) - The elementary organism: chemiosmotic LUCA. - UCL Consortium for Mitochondrial Research
• Verena Laner (OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS, Innsbruck, Austria) - MitoCom
• Catherine Le (Colorado State University Fort Collins, US) - Mitochondrial function on Mt. Chacaltaya 5,200 m
• Hong Kyu Lee (Seoul National University Hospital, KR) - Asian Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine
• Hannes Leo (cbased Vienna)
• Carsten Lundby (University Zurich, CH) - HypoxiaNet
• Barbara Meissner (OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS, Innsbruck, Austria) - Open Innovation
• Odra Noel (London, UK) - MiPArt
• Dominik Pesta (Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, US) The effect of targeted knockdown of the Indy gene on energy metabolism in rats.
• Holger Prokisch (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, DE)
• Rodrigue Rossignol (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Bordeaux, FR) - French Group of Bioenergetics
• Roberto Scatena (Università Cattolica, Roma, IT) Mitochondria: a growing role in cancer. Some intriguing respirometric observations
• Peter Schoenfeld (Universität Magdeburg, DE)
• Zuzana Sumbalova (Comenius University, Bratislava, SK)
• Dominique Votion (University of Liège, BE) - Breeding and life style towards the upper limit of aerobic power.
• George Wagensberg (CosmoCaixa, Barcelona, ES) The Total Science Museum - Systems Evolution
• Cezary Watala (Medical University of Lodz, PL)
• Lech Wojtczak (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, PL) - A life with bioenergetics.

Presentations

In the spirit of Gentle Science and Tempo giusto, your audience asks you to adhere to the limited time available for individual presentations, and to encourage the extended communication in stimulating discussions.

Bioblast would like to encourage the senior scientists to:

• Think big and deep - with mitochondrial competence,
• Provocative, perhaps a blend of experimental/theoretical and published/unpublished,
• Across borderlines, beyond the limits of our present experimental evidence.
• Historical perspective that projects into the future.
• Start and end with a simple message that will stick to many minds in and beyond the audience - the message beyond your abstract.
• Don't be afraid of critical comments.

Bioblast wants the junior scientists to:

• Focus on experimental results - with mitochondrial competence.
• Present data with a critical mind.
• Don't be afraid of challenging what may be merely dogmatic textbook knowledge.
• Start with a question and end with a clear message (or a clear question) - the message beyond your abstract.
• Don't be afraid of constructive comments.

Further contacts to mitochondrial organizations without participation

• Thangaraj Kumarasamy (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, IN) - Society for Mitochondria Research and Medicine

Bioblast Conference hosted by OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS

The O2k-Team hopes that the Bioblast Conference will be an explicit statement on the value and high quality of cooperation between the OROBOROS MiPNet Reference Laboratories who contributed to the world-wide success of high-resolution respirometry. Your feedback is most valuable to us.

• OROBOROS and High-Resolution Respirometry

1992- 20 years high-resolution respirometry

2002- 10 years O2k

2012- this year: Houska Award

• OROBOROS MiPNet Reference Laboratories: As an appreciation of your cooperation, OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS invites a delegate of your research group to join the Bioblast Conference free of charge. According to our CSR-strategy, we stay away from ‘low-value advertisements’ to stimulate the flow of high-quality information. Our priorities focus on communication rather than diverting support away to Madison Avenue advertising. Any support by the participants is greatly appreciated.

Travel options, registration and accomodation

• Information on various travel options to Innsbruck
• Registration and accommodation

• Contact: [email protected]

MitoCom Tyrol

The Bioblast Conference is partially supported by MitoCom Tyrol.

Förderung von Wissenschaft, Forschung und Entwicklung (Programm K-Regio); EU-Regionalförderungsprogramm "Stärkung der regionalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit Tirols 2007-2013; Landes- und EU-Förderung.