The two teams discovered a mega-protein complex with surprising properties in mitochondria!

The team unveiled a new mechanism for regulating mitochondrial function. The findings demonstrate the critical role of the lysine acetyltransferase MOF in maintaining mitochondrial integrity and function through acetylation of mitochondrial electron transport chain component COX17.

Using biochemical and cell-biology experiments, the team demonstrated for the first time precisely how mitochondrial proteins with signal sequences are imported into the mitochondria via a negatively charged, unique groove.

Prof. Dr. Bertram Bengsch and his team discover that the metabolism of HBV-specific and HCV-specific T cells is strongly connected to their exhaustion severity, and highlight enolase as metabolic regulator of severely exhausted T cells.

Prof. Dr. Chris Meisinger, Professor for Biochemistry at the University of Freiburg was appointed to the “Academia Europaea” in June 2023 for his “outstanding achievements as a scientist” in the field of mitochondrial research.

Prof. Dr. Anna Köttgen and her team discover numerous undescribed metabolic processes and their genes by comparing metabolic products in urine and blood.

Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, receives the 2023 Janet Rowley Award from the International Society for Experimental Hematology (ISEH).

The 2023 international CIBSS symposium Integration in Biological Signalling focuses on how living organisms combine and contextualize biological information. The symposium will bring leading experts from across disciplines together in Freiburg.

Mitochondrial complexome reveals quality-control pathways of protein import

TFEB induces mitochondrial itaconate synthesis to suppress bacterial growth in macrophages

Prof. Dr. Naresh Sepuri (University of Hyderabad, India)
“Role of sub-cellular structures on mitochondrial dynamics, bioenergetics and lipid homeostasis”

Prof. David J. Pagliarini (Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis)
“Systems biochemistry approaches for exploring mitochondrial proteins and pathogenesis”

The Metabolomics Core Facility of the MPI can boost the processing and analysis of your metabolomics data!

13:00-13:30
Speaker: Jan Michael Schuller, Zentrum für Synthetische Mikrobiologie (SYNMIKRO), Universität Marburg
Chairs: Marc Nowaczyk, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie der Pflanzen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Organizers: Study Group Bioenergetics

12:30-13:00
Speaker: Kirstin Gutekunst, Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Universität Kassel
Chair: Marc Nowaczyk, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie der Pflanzen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Organizers: Study Group Bioenergetics

Dual role of Mic10 in mitochondrial cristae organization and ATP synthase-linked metabolic adaptation and respiratory growth

Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid is honored as one of Europe’s top young researchers in the life sciences.

12:30-13:30
Speaker: Ralph J. DeBerardinis, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD and UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Chair: Albert Sickmann, ISAS, Dortmund
Organizers: Study Group Bioanalytics

Quantitative high-confidence human mitochondrial proteome and its dynamics in cellular context

Prof. Dr. Gabriel Schaaf (Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Department of Plant Nutrition, University of Bonn)
“Inositol pyrophosphate-dependent control of plant phosphate starvation responses”