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Seminar Series for graduate students and postdocs from around the world to share their latest work in the field of mitochondria

Meet our past speakers

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Spring 2024 

Shiyu Bian

Graduate Student, Imperial College London

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Investigating the impact of mitochondrial DNA variability on human pluripotent stem cell metabolic state and fitness 

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    Spring 2024 

    Fabian Finger Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Fellow, NNF-CBMR, University of Copenhagen 

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    Mitochondrial membrane dynamics shape muscle fiber type adaptations in aging and myopathies

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    Spring 2024 

    Rubén Torregrosa Muñumer, Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Helsinki

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    Replenishment of the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA) intermediates determines pluripotent stem cell fate

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    Spring 2024

    KayLee Steiner

    Graduate Student, Vanderbilt University

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    Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Synthesis and Mecr Regulate CD4+ T Cell Function and Oxidative Metabolism​

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    Spring 2024

    Luis Carlos Tabara Ph.D. 

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Mitochondrial Biology Unit (University of Cambridge) 

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    Mitochondrial fusion selectivity controls mitochondrial recycling to maintain mtDNA levels​

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    Spring 2024

    Zheng Wu Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Southwestern Medical Center 

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    Electron transport chain inhibition increases cellular dependence on purine transport and salvage

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      Spring 2024 

      James Lee

      Graduate Student, University of Sheffield

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      C9orf72 repeat expansion mutation reduces mitochondrial function and mitophagy in neurons

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      Spring 2024

      Juan C Landoni Ph.D. 

      Postdoctoral Fellow, EPFL, Switzerland 

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      Pearling mediates mitochondrial DNA  & microdomain distribution

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      Spring 2024

      Mariella Quispe-Carbajal

      Graduate Student, Stony Brook University

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      Investigating how the mitochondrial Yme1 protease recognizes small Tim chaperones for proteolysis​

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      Autumn 2023

      Nils Grotehans

      Max Planck Institute

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      ​Nucleotide metabolism and the control of mitochondrial gene expression​

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      Autumn 2023

      Tabitha Hees

      Max Planck Institute

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      Insulin signaling regulates Pink1 mRNA localization via modulation of AMPK activity to support mitophagy in neurons

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        Autumn 2023

        Xhoela Bame

        Dartmouth College

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        ​Intravital mitochondrial dynamics during oligodendrocyte generation​

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          Autumn 2023

          Margherita Zamberlan

          Università degli studi di Padova​

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          The small GTPase RAP1 links the mitochondria-shaping protein Opa1 to angionesis inhibition​

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          Autumn 2023

          Aida Rodríguez-Nuevo

          Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG)

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          Oocytes maintain ROS-free mitochondrial metabolism by suppressing complex I​

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          Autumn 2023

          Jose M. Delgado

          Dartmouth College

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          ​Mitophagy regulation through endolysosomal control of a mislocalized tail-anchored protein, BNIP3 ​

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          Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA

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          Autumn 2023

          Paula Rebelo

          University of Padova

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          Mitochondria Fission Factor: Budd(y)ing mitochondria to melanosome function​

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            Autumn 2023

            Sadig Niftullayev

            Max Planck Institute

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            Autophagy as a guardian of two genomes: Journey from mtDNA to nDNA​

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            Autumn 2023

            Erik McShane Ph.D. 

            Harvard Medical School 

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            ​A kinetic dichotomy between mitochondrial and nuclear gene expression drives OXPHOS biogenesis​

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            Autumn 2023

            Marta Szulik Ph.D. 

            University of Utah

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            SMYD1a Protects Heart from Ischemic Injury by Regulating OPA1-Mediated Cristae Remodeling and Supercomplex Formation 

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              Autumn 2022

              Alva G. Sainz Ph.D. 

              Salk Institute

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              ​FAM43A and CHK2 Mediate a Novel Retrograde mtDNA-Stress Sensing Pathway​

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              Autumn 2022

              Rhoda Stefanatos 

              University of Glasgow 

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              Complex I activity during development is important for lifespan, during adulthood, it doesn’t matter​

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              Autumn 2022

              Sofia Ahola Ph.D. 

              Max Planck Institute 

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              ​OMA1-mediated integrated stress response protects against ferroptosis in mitochondrial cardiomyopathy​

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              Current Position: Assistant Professor at IMSR, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom​​

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              Autumn 2022

              Nirajan Neupane

              University of Helsinki

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              Inter-organellar and systemic survival responses to impaired mitochondrial matrix protein import in skeletal muscle​

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              Autumn 2022

              Tânia Medeiros Ph.D.

              Max Planck Institute

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              Host compartmentalize metabolism to defend against microbes​

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              Autumn 2022

              Cara Schiavon

              Salk Institute

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              INF2 Regulates Organelle Mobility via ER-associated Actin​

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                Autumn 2022

                Stefan Isaac Ph.D.

                Harvard Medical School

                ​Single-nucleoid architecture of human mitochondrial DNA​

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                Current Position: Assistant Professor at Boston University Medical Campus​

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                Autumn 2022

                Brandon Berry Ph.D.

                Univ. of Washington

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                Preserving Mitochondrial Energetics with Age Using Optogenetics​

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                Autumn 2022

                Andrea Irazoki

                Københavns Universitet

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                Imbalanced mitochondrial dynamics triggers muscle inflammation​

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                Spring 2022

                Gabriella Robertson

                Vanderbilt University

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                Mitochondrial fission is essential to maintain cristae ​morphology and bioenergetics​

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                Spring 2022

                Bruna Martins Garcia

                Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing

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                A role for mitochondria in the regulation of cholesterol synthesis

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                Spring 2022

                Hema Saranya Ilamathi

                University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières

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                mtDNA replication and segregation are regulated by DRP1-dependent modulation of endoplasmic reticulum sheet structure

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                Spring 2022

                Ximena Garcia Arceo

                UCSD

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                Biophysical mechanisms of condition-dependent mRNA localization to the mitochondria

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                  Spring 2022

                  João Victor Cabral Costa

                  University of São Paulo

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                  Shuttling stars: mitochondrial regulation of astrocytic metabolism and function 

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                  Spring 2022

                  Nicole Lake Ph.D. 

                  Yale University 

                  ​Assessment of mitochondrial genome constraint 

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                  Current Position: Assistant Professor in the Yale Center of Genomic Health and Department of Genetics​​

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                  Autumn 2021

                  Joel Riley Ph.D. 

                  University of Glasgow

                  ​Mitochondrial dynamics regulate genome stability via control of caspase-dependent DNA damage

                  Current position:  Assistant Professor Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria​

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                  Autumn 2021

                  Hanna Salmonowicz Ph.D. 

                  Newcastle University & Mayo Clinic

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                  Sub-lethal apoptotic stress enables mtDNA release and drives the senescence-associated secretory phenotype

                   

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                  Autumn 2021

                  Ewa Bomba-Warczak Ph.D. 

                  Northwestern University

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                  Long-lived mitochondrial proteins in mouse brain and heart

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                  Autumn 2021

                  Laura Newman Ph.D. 

                  Salk Institute

                  ​Mitochondrial DNA replication stress stimulates mtDNA release from mitochondria and activation of innate immune signaling

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                  Current Position: Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia​

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                  Autumn 2021

                  Gaia Gherardi

                  University of Padova

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                  ​Mitochondrial metabolism regulates muscle homeostasis in adulthood and aging

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                  Autumn 2021

                  Elias Adriaenssens Ph.D. 

                  Max Perutz Labs

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                  A new chaperone-system in the mitochondrial intermembrane space

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                  Autumn 2021

                  Laura DiGiovanni

                  University of Toronto

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                  Peroxisomes maintain mitochondrial redox homeostasis via peroxisome-mitochondria contact

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                    Autumn 2021

                    Maria Patron 

                    Max Planck Institute

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                    Regulation of mitochondrial proteostasis by the proton gradient

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                      Autumn 2021

                      Ana Lima

                      Imperial College of London

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                      Differences in mitochondrial activity trigger cell competition during early mouse development

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                        Autumn 2021

                        Ahmad Clunton Ph.D. 

                        University of Utah

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                        The pyruvate-lactate axis modulates cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure

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