SATURDAY |
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Complex Assembly |
| Discussion Leader: Pedro Teixeira (Stockholm University) |
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Lindsay Burwell (Cornell University)
"Dissecting the roles MSS51 plays in cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 synthesis and assembly downstream of translation initiation"
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4:00 pm - 4:05 pm | Discussion |
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm | Nitya Subrahmanian (Ohio State University)
"A Novel Connection between Guanylate cyclase and mitochondrial Complex I biogenesis"
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4:20 pm - 4:25 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Protein Modification and Import |
| Discussion Leader: Ian Small (The University of Western Australia) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Uwe Richter (FinMIT Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence)
"The role of mitochondrial peptide deformylase in coordinating respiratory chain assembly"
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7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Ann Koenig (Ludwig Maximilian University)
"The function of protein acetylation in plant mitochondria"
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8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Victoria Hewitt (Monash University)
"Mitochondrial protein import and assembly in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans"
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8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Charles Andres (Neuchatel University)
"Regulation of the protein import in chloroplast at the Toc159 protein level"
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8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Paulina Kwiatkowska (International Institute of Mol. and Cell Biology)
"Interplay between the processes of mitochondrial inner membrane formation governed by MINOS and protein sorting facilitated by MIA"
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9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Beata Kmiec (Stockholm University)
"Dual localization of PreP peptidasome in both mitochondria and chloroplasts is essential for plant growth and development"
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9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Organelle Dysfunction, Stress and Disease |
| Discussion Leader: Jodi Nunnari (University of California-Davis) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Sofia Ahola-Erkkila (University of Helsinki)
"Mutations in the mitochondrial translation elongation factor EFTs in infantile and juvenile- onset mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiencies"
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9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
9:20 am - 9:35 am | Mon-Ray Shao (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
"Organelle perturbation alters the epigenome to produce dramatic and heritable changes in plant growth"
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9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Daniel Bricker (University of Utah)
"Functional characterization of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier in yeast, Drosophila and human disease"
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9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:15 am | Estelle Giraud (University of Western Australia)
"Identification of cellular components of mitochondrial retrograde signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana"
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10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
10:20 am - 10:35 am | Annette Hofer (University of Cologne)
"Sirt3 - a stress regulator of mitochondrial ATP synthesis, OXPHOS stability and mitochondrial biogenesis"
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10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am - 10:55 am | Inge Kuhl (Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing)
"Conditional knockout of POLRMT in mice leads to both impaired mitochondrial transcription and replication"
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10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Organellar Gene Expression |
| Discussion Leader: Benoit Castandet (Cornell University) |
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Katharine Howell (University of Western Australia)
"Towards a comprehensive analysis of the role of sigma factors in plastid gene expression"
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1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Discussion |
1:50 pm - 2:05 pm | Nawel Haili (INRA Versailles)
"The pentatricopeptide repeat MTSF1 protein stabilizes the nad4 mRNA in Arabidopsis mitochondria"
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2:05 pm - 2:10 pm | Discussion |
2:10 pm - 2:25 pm | Tao Sun (Cornell University)
"RIP1, a novel plant RNA editing factor"
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2:25 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |