University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI)

Agenda

6:30 a.m. Stress Your Mitochondria Fun Run 10K (Meet at Hillman Lobby)
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
Michael T. Lotze, MD

University of Pittsburgh
8:45 a.m. Keynote Address: Heritable Conditions in Mitochondria and their Genetic Basis in Qi
Douglas Wallace, PhD

Michael and Charles Barnett Endowed Chair in Pediatric Mitochondrial Medicine and Metabolic Disease, Director, Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine (CMEM), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
9:45 a.m. Autophagy, Mitochondria and Mitophagy
Chair, Sruti Shiva, PhD (5 presentations 10+5)
11:15 a.m. Break
11:45 a.m. Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Biology
Chair, Brian Zuckerbraun, MD (5 presentations 10+5)
1:00 p.m. Lunch and Posters (30-50 posters)
2:30 p.m. Keynote Address: Mitochondria in Neurologic Disorders
Charleen T. Chu, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, University of Pittsburgh.
3:30 p.m Clinical Consequences of Mitochondrial Disorders
Chair, Amy Goldstein, MD (6 presentations 10+5)
5:00 p.m. Keynote Address: Myc in Mitochondria and Autophagy
Chi Van Dang, MD, PhD

Director, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania
6:00 p.m. Looking Ahead to Next Year
Bennett Van Houten, PhD and Chi Dang, MD, PhD