Mitochondrial Medical and Scientific Meetings
Upcoming UMDF Bench-to-Bedside Seminars:
The UMDF Bench-to-Bedside Seminar Series follows in the footsteps of the highly successful Mito Friday Seminar Series launched earlier this year. This program addresses a need for increased scientific discussion of important mitochondrial research being conducted around the world. The Bench-to-Bedside (BtB) seminars will take place monthly and typically last one hour.
Researchers and clinicians that would like to suggest a topic or theme are encouraged to contact UMDF at [email protected], and if you are interested in submitting an abstract for consideration as a future presenter please utilize our online portal by clicking here.
Recordings from UMDF Bench-to-Bedside webcasts will be made available for a limited time as on-demand or through this web page. Availability of recordings is at the discretion of our presenters.
Friday, December 11, 2020
12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Nuclear Genome-wide Associations with Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy
Moderator: Brett Kaufman, PhD
Presenters:
Priyanka Nandakumar, PhD, 23andMe, California
Neal Sondheimer, MD, PhD, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Friday, January 15, 2021
12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Novel aspects of mitochondrial NAD+ Biology
Moderator: Brett Kaufman, PhD
Presenters:
Joseph A. Baur, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Anu Suomalainen-Wartiovaara, MD, PhD, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Previous UMDF Bench-to-Bedside Seminars:
Friday, November 20, 2020
12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Clinical and Cellular Phenotypes of m.3243A>G
Moderator: Brett Kaufman, PhD
Presenters and Topics:
Michio Hirano, MD, Columbia University, New York, NY
Clinical Manifestations and Natural History of m.3243A>G
Tamas Kozicz, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
m.3243A>G-Induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction Impairs Human Neuronal Development and Reduces Neuronal Network Activity and Synchronicity
Friday, October 9, 2020
12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Click Here to Watch the On-Demand Recording
Topic: Mitochondrial Targets and Defenses in the Time of COVID
- Moderator: Bruce H. Cohen, MD, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, OH
Presenters:
- Robert K. Naviaux, PhD, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
- Keshav Singh, PhD, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Monday, September 21, 2020
- Topic: Discovery and Implications of Interbacterial Deaminase Toxins
Presenter: Joseph Mougous, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Topic: A Bacterial Cytidine Deaminase Toxin Enables CRISPR-Free Mitochondrial Base Editing
Presenter: David R. Liu, PhD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Friday, August 28, 2020
UMDF Funded Projects:
- Investigating intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing mitochondrial heteroplasmy in mt-tRNA mutation-linked disease - Dr. Kinsley Belle, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
- Mechanisms of protein assembly underlying mitochondrial DNA maintenance but altered in early-onset neurodegenerative disorders - Dr. Breann Brown, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
- Implementation of the CRISPR gene editing technology – Edit Plasmids - toward the curing of mitochondrial diseases caused by mutations in mitochondrial DNA - Dr. Hajime Sakai, CEO, NAPIGEN
Friday, June 19, 2020
- Topic: Mitochondrial Control of Innate Immune Responses in Disease and Aging
Presenter: A. Phillip West, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis & Immunology, Texas A&M University
- Topic: A Quantitative Tissue-Specific Landscape of Protein Redox Regulation During Aging
Presenter: Ed Chouchani, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology and Cell Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University
Friday, June 5, 2020
- Topic: Mouse Models of Mitochondrial DNA Disease
Presenter: James Stewart, PhD, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
- Topic: Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in Disease and Targeted Nuclease-Based Therapeutic Approaches
Presenter: Carlos Moraes, PhD, Lichtenstein Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Friday, May 22, 2020
- Topic: Translational and Clinical Perspectives on Mitochondrial DNA Deletions During Normal Aging and POLG Disease
- Presenters: Bruce H. Cohen, MD, Akron Children's Hospital and William Copeland, PhD, NIEHS
Upcoming Mitochondrial Medicine-Related Meetings
November 30-December 2, 2020
Wellcome Trust Mito Medicine 2020 (Virtual)
- Wellcome Genome Campus, UK
- Click Here for Details