ESCI Council: Mariusz Wieckowski 
Invited Organizer(s): Paulo Oliveira, Paulo Gameiro
Meeting room: 

Thursday, 4 June 

08.30-10.00 Session 1.1  Mitochondria, Aging, and Women’s Health 
Chair: Paulo J. Oliveira (Coímbra, Portugal)
Chair: Mariusz Wieckowski (Poland)

08.30-09.00 Mitochondria: a key organelle to explain the different in longevity between sexes Jose Viña (University of Valencia, Spain)

09.00-09.30 Hormonal Decline, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, and Menopausal Disease Risk Vilma Sardão (Coímbra, Portugal)

09.30-09.40 Communication between mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum in patient-derived cellular models of schizophrenia Rosa Resende

09.40-09.50 Characterization of adenosine receptor A2AR-dependent L-Arginine–nitric oxide signaling in differentiated H9c2-cardiomyoblasts Mariana S.Diniz

09.50-10.00 Activation of ATP-sensitive potassium channels attenuates age-related oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in the heart of aged rats Maryna Marchenko

Coffee-break & Poster Session (Group A)

11.00-12.30 Session 1.2  Mitochondria in Obesity (special PAS GRAS session)
Chair: Vilma Sardão (Coímbra, Portugal)
Chair: Jose Viña (Valencia, Spain)

11.00-11.30 Mitochondrial and Metabolichepatic complication of obesity John Jones (Coimbra, Portugal)

11.30-12.00 Autophagy in MASLD: Friend or Foe? Mariusz Wieckowski (Warsaw, Poland)

12.00-12.10 Rapid regulation of mitochondrial fission and fusion mediators during ischemia/reperfusion injury and cardioprotection by ischemic preconditioning Chantal Eickelman

12.10-12.20 Mitochondrial complex I impairment drives a maladaptive peroxisomal response disrupting lipid homeostasis Patricia Coelho

12.20-12.30 Protein O-GlcNAcylation Links Nutrient-Sensing to Mitochondrial and Translational Pathways Luís Grilo

Lunch & Poster Session (Group B)

14.30-16.00 Session 1.3  Evaluation of Mitochondrial Bioenergetics
Chair: John Jones (Coimbra, Portugal)

14.30-15.00 Mitochondrial and cellular respirometry – historical timeline Paulo J. Oliveira (Coímbra, Portugal)

15.00-15.30 Mitochondrial bioenergetics in circulating platelets Hans Zichska (München, Germany)

15.30-16.00 Mitochondrial respiration supports cancer growth independent of OXPHOS Christos Chinopoulos (Budapest, Hungary)

16:00-16:50 Round table: Mitochondrial Function and Brain Health in Women’s Life Transitions

16.30-17.30   Brief oral sessions and coffee-break

17.30-18.30   Satellite Symposium: Pas Gras

19.30            Congress dinner


Friday, 5 June 

09.00-10.30 Session 1.4  Mitochondria in Immunity and Inflammation

Chair: Christos Chinopoulos (Budapest, Hungary)
Chair: Hans Zichska (München, Germany)

09.00-09.30 Metabolic control of immune tolerance to microbiota Mauro Corrado (Cologne, Germany)

09.30-09.40 STIM1 and VDAC1 sustain endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondria interaction upon ER calcium depletion Tania Fernandes

09.40-09.50 Baseline bioenergetic characterization of urine-derived stem cells from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients J.M.Alfonso Gonçalo

09.50-10.30 Adaptive responses at the mitochondria-ER contact sites involved in metabolism regulation in an ultra-rare neurodevelopmental PACS2 syndrome Magdalena Lebiedzinska-Arciszewska

10.00-10.30 The Mitochondrial Relay with the Nucleus: Form and Function Michelangelo Campanella (London, UK)

Coffee-break & Poster Session (Group C)

11.30-13.00 Session 1.5  Mitochondrial Genetics and Medicine
Chair: Magdalena Lebiedzinska-Arciszewska (Poland)
Chair: Paulo Gameiro (Lisbon, Portugal)

11.30-12.00 Mitochondrial disease diagnostics: are there still new genes to find? Robert Taylor (Newcastle, UK)

12.00-12.30 Why Hot Mice are Cool Werner Koopman (The Netherlands)

12.30-13.00 Disorders of Mitochondrial Coenzyme Metabolism: A Potential Therapeutic Target Johannes A. Mayr (Salzburg, Austria)

Lunch & Poster session (Group D)

13.00-14.00 Lunch & Poster Session (Group D)

14:00-14:30 European Journal Clinical Investigation

14:30-15:30 ESCI Awards

15:30-16:30 Albert Struyvenberg Medal

16:30-17:00 Closing ceremony