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COST Action CA15203 (2016-2021): MitoEAGLE
Evolution-Age-Gender-Lifestyle-Environment: mitochondrial fitness mapping
MitoEAGLE Verona 2016
Verona IT, 2016 Nov 15-17. A roadmap for MITOEAGLE and first steps COST Action MITOEAGLE |
Β» http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA15203
COST Association (2016-11-15) MitoGlobal
Abstract:
Labels:
ORO, 2016, Next, MITOEAGLE
General information
- First Core Group Meeting, WG1 and WG4 Meeting
- Date: 2016-11-15 to 2016-11-17
- Venue: Verona, IT
- First Core Group Meeting, WG1 and WG4 Meeting
- Time schedule:
- 2016-11-15: Core Group Meeting 13:00 - 18:00
- 2016-11-16: WG1/WG4 Meeting and Workshop 9:00 - 18:00
- 2016-11-17: WG1/WG4 Meeting and Workshop 9:00 - 13:00
- Time schedule:
- Programme coordinators link the specific meeting topics to the global MITOEAGLE targets.
- Participation
- Present your independently funded project according to the Memorandum of Understanding.
Financial COST support
- Financial support for the Verona meeting is defined in the Work and Budget Plan Grant Period 1. Priority will be given to the Core Group and to participants with specific presentations listed in the programme.
- All participants (limited to 30-40 researchers)
- Registration fees: waved.
- Lunch and coffee breaks: free, for registrations received until 15 days in advance.
- All participants (limited to 30-40 researchers)
- Financial support for the Verona meeting is defined in the Work and Budget Plan Grant Period 1. Priority will be given to the Core Group and to participants with specific presentations listed in the programme.
- 20 participants
- Travel and daily allowance: see COST Vademecum
- Accomodation revised flat rate: 95 EUR (according to the e-vote by the Management Committee)
- 20 participants
Venue
- Day 1 (afternoon): Sala Zorzi (B), Palazzo Zorzi-Polfranceschi, Lungadige Porta Vittoria 17
- Day 2: Sala Barbieri, Palazzo Giuliari, Via dellβArtigliere 8
- Day 3: Sala Barbieri, Palazzo Giuliari, Via dellβArtigliere 8
- Lunch: University restaurant (for registrations received until 15 days in advance)
Accomodation
- The following hotels are recommended - please mention 'MITOEAGLE' in your reservation
- Hotel Giulietta & Romeo:
- http://www.giuliettaeromeo.it
- [email protected]
- EUR 89.00 (double room used as a single room with breakfast)
- Hotel Giulietta & Romeo:
- Hotel Milano:
- http://www.hotels2go.it/
- [email protected]
- Classic room: EUR 94.00 (double room used as a single room with breakfast)
- Executive room: EUR 102.00
- Hotel Milano:
Programme
- Preliminary programme: last update 2016-10-20
- Final programme: deadline Monday 2016-10-24
- Further topics and titles of introductory presentations: please let us know your suggestions before Oct 24
- Time slots for presentations: we will provide a lot of time for discussions to elaborate the various topics. Time slots for formal introductory presentations will be given at a time when the number of presentations is known.
- Federico Schena (Department of Neurological and Movement Sciences, University of Verona) Welcome.
Core group meeting
- Review the Work and Budget Plan Grant Period 1
- Erich Gnaiger, Chair (AT), Elisa Calabria, Vice chair (IT): A road map.
- Goals for Grant Period 2017-05-01 to 2018-04-30 have been identified according to the Memorandum of Understanding
- Key tasks of Working Groups (if you cannot join, please ask your co-leaders)
- Renner-Sattler K (DE) WG1 Standard operating procedures and user requirement document: Protocols, terminology, documentation
- Garcia-Roves PM (ES) WG2 MITOEAGLE data repository in muscle tissues
- Nedergaard J (SE) WG3 MITOEAGLE data repository on fat tissues and other tissues
- Calabria E WG4 MITOEAGLE data: blood and cultured cells
- Labieniec-Watala M (PL) Short-Term Scientific Missions MITOEAGLE Grant Period 1
- Dissemination plan
- Prepare agenda for MC Meeting Barcelona
- Garcia-Roves PM (ES) General outline
- Labieniec-Watala M (PL) Short-Term Scientific Missions MITOEAGLE Grant Period 2
- Gnaiger E (AT) [[MC_MITOEAGLE_e-VOTE_02#Topic_.282.29_Training_School_in_Obergurgl.2C_Tyrol.2FAustria_in_July_2017
|Training School in Obergurgl, Tyrol/Austria in July 2017]]
- Other networking activities
- Next Management Committee Meeting in a Inclusiveness Target Country, Grant Period 2
- Krako N (RS) Implementation strategy: plan towards inclusiveness (geographical coverage, early career investigator involvement and gender balance) that is revised and updated at every MC meeting and develop a strategy to attract researchers and stakeholders.
- COST provides the following examples:
- Leadership roles
- Organising and locating MITOEAGLE meetings and events in Inclusiveness Target Countries
- Benefiting from COST networking tools
- Promoting STSMs
- Action Think Tank for Early Career Investigators
- Laner V (AT) Aiming to support the involvement of researchers from Near Neighbour (NNC) and International Partner Countries (IPC) in MITOEAGLE - networking with the Mitochondrial Physiology Society - on the basis of mutual benefit.
- COST provides the following examples:
- Approved IPC and NNC Institutions can host Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM).
- Researchers from approved NNC institutions can apply for STSMs and and be supported when attending Training Schools.
- Researchers from approved IPC and NNC institutions can be supported as trainers in Training Schools.
- SME and industry participation. COST provides the following examples:
- Sessions and round table discussions dedicated to industrial participation at MITOEAGLE events
- STSMs with industry acting as home/host institution
- Update our internal terminology to facilitate communication
- Plattner C, Gnaiger E (AT) Facilitate the flow
WG1 Meeting
- MITOEAGLE protocols, terminology, documentation
- Programme coordinator: Erich Gnaiger
- Discussion of concepts and terminology of mitochondrial physiology - TG1.1 Coupling states and coupling control ratios: consensus statements
- Gnaiger E (AT) Towards a database - why terminology is important.
- Discussion: MitoPedia: Respiratory control ratios - a basis for discussion, concept for joint publication.
- Collect and discuss procedures and experimental protocols for the evaluation of mitochondrial capacities and create a library of protocols: reference subsrate-uncoupler-inhibitor titration protocols (SUIT), standard experimental media, and detailed instructions for OXPHOS analysis - TG1.2 SUIT protocols: nomenclature consistent with concept of database
- Doerrier C (AT) Approaches for finding an universal SUIT reference protocol.
- Discussion: MitoPedia: SUIT - a basis for discussion.
- TG1.5 Knowledge management system
- Drinnan M (AT, UK) Data management: direction of travel.
- Garcia-Roves PM (ES) Design and implementation of systems biology approaches to integrate heterogenic data in biomedical research.
- TG1.6 Interlaboratory proficiency ring test
- Gnaiger E (AT) The concept of the MitoFit proficiency test - from coaching to certification.
- Discussion: MitoFit proficiency test - a basis for discussion.
WG4 Meeting
- MITOEAGLE data: blood and cultured cells - TG4.1 Blood
- Programme coordinator: Elisa Calabria
- Develop a working plan for the establishment of consensus protocols, reporting schemes, and the assignment of specific study tasks for mitochondrial respiratory studies in blood cells.
- Calabria E (IT) Blood cells mitochondrial activity in aging and frailty.
- Sumbalova Z (AT, SK) Isolation of blood cells for high-resolution respirometry: PBMCs and platelets.
- Garcia e Souza LF (AT) Mitochondrial respiratory control in platelets.
- Volani C (AT) Human and rat PBMCs: what can we do better?
- Discussion: and development of SOPs for blood cell separation.
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