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PROGRAM
3rd Albany
Conference on
Frontiers
of Mitochondrial Research
September 14-17, 2000
Rensselaerville, NY
THURSDAY EVENING - 7:30
PM
Opening Session
7:30 PM
Carmen Mannella
President, Albany Conference Foundation
Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:00 PM
Simon Melov
Buck Center for Research and Aging
A mouse model for mitochondrial oxidative stress
FRIDAY MORNING
Structure/Function
(Chair: J. Lemasters,
Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
| 9:00 AM |
Carmen Mannella
Wadsworth Center
Dynamics of mitochondrial inner membrane folding inferred from EM tomography
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| 9:30 AM |
Guy Perkins
University of California, San Diego
Dual-specific A kinase anchoring proteins target mitochondria
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| 10:00 AM |
Frank Gellerich
University of Halle, Germany
Bioenergetic importance of mitochondrial outer membrane as diffusion
barrier under normal and impaired conditions
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| 10:30 AM |
BREAK
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| 11:00 AM |
Uwe Schlattner
Institute of Cell Biology, Switzerland
Mitochondrial creatine kinase: involvement in energy channeling
and control of permeability transition
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| 11:30 AM |
Martin Klingenberg
University of Munich, Germany
A fresh look at uncoupling proteins
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON
2:00-4:00 PM
Workshop: Mitochondria
and Disease
(Chair: G. Cortopassi,
University of California, Davis)
Paolo Bernardi - University of Padova
Ian Reynolds - University of Pittsburgh
Yau-Huei Wei -National Yang-Ming University
Gino Cortopassi - University of California, Davis
FRIDAY EVENING
Permeability Transition
(Chair: P. Bernardi,
Univ. Padova)
| 7:15 PM |
Andrew Halestrap
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
The molecular mechanism of the mitochondrial permeability transition
pore
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| 7:45 PM |
Lihua He
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Characterization of cyclosporin A sensitive and insensitive permeability
transition pores in rat liver mitochondria
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| 8:15 PM |
BREAK
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| 8:30 PM |
Valeria Petronilli
University of Padova, Italy
The relationship between the mitochondrial permeability transition
and cell death
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| 9:00 PM |
Anna-Liisa Nieminen
Case Western Reserve University
Mitochondrial swelling, depolarization, and permeability transition
during Bax-induced apoptosis in hepatocytes
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SATURDAY MORNING
Cytochrome c Release
(Chair: A. Murphy,
MitoKor)
| 9:00 AM |
Roman Eliseev
University of Rochester Medical Center
Dysfunction of mitochondria and cytochrome c release during apoptosis
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| 9:30 AM |
Alexander Andreyev
MitoKor
Ca2+ uptake and release of cytochrome c in neural cell mitochondria
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| 10:00 AM |
Jochen Prehn
University of Muenster, Germany
Multiple kinetics of mitochondrial cytochrome c release in apoptosis
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| 10:30 AM |
BREAK
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| 11:00 AM |
Francois Ichas
Universite Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, France
The permeability transition pore signals apoptosis by directing Bax
translocation
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| 11:30 AM |
Brian Polster
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Bax BH3 peptide induces permeability transition-independent release
of cytochrome c from neural cell but not isolated brain or liver mitochondria
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SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Workshop(s): To Be
Announced
SATURDAY EVENING
Bcl-2 Proteins and Channels
(Chair: M. Forte,
Oregon Health Sciences University)
| 7:15 PM |
Atan Gross
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
The role of BID in apoptosis
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| 7:45 PM |
Bruno Antonsson
Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Bax is present as a high molecular weight oligomer/complex in the mitochondrial
membrane of apoptotic cells
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| 8:15 PM |
BREAK
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| 8:30 PM |
Marco Colombini
University of Maryland
Bcl-xL alters the gating properties of VDAC channels isolated from
rat liver mitochondria
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| 9:00 PM |
Kathleen Kinnally
New York University
Death signal leads to the formation of a novel h igh-conductance channel
in the mitochondrial outer membrane
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SUNDAY MORNING
Calcium
(Chair: I. Reynolds,
University of Pittsburgh)
| 9:00 AM |
Gyorgy Hajnoczky
Thomas Jefferson University
Mitochondrial Ca2+ signaling in life and death
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| 9:30 AM |
Jennifer Buckman
University of Pittsburgh
Dynamics of mitochondrial membrane potential in neurons and astrocytes
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| 10:00 AM |
BREAK
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| 10:15 AM |
David Nicholls
Buck Institute
Mitochondrial membrane potential in cultured neural cells: distinctive
responses to apoptotic stimuli, NMDA and AMPA receptor activation and modelling
with a 'virtual cell'
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| 10:45 AM |
Shey-Shing Sheu
University of Rochester Medical School
Visualization and modification of the mitochondrial peremability transition
pore in striatal neurons
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| 11:15 AM |
Closing Discussion
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For further information
contact...Carmen Mannella: carmen@wadsworth.org
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