MiPschool 2025

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May 18th (Arrival)
4:00 - 6:00 PM Registration (Cook Conference Center)
6:00 - 7:00 PM Welcome Reception
7:00 - 9:00 PM Dinner
May 19th (Conference Day 1)
6:00 – 8:45 AM Complimentary Breakfast (Cook Hotel)
8:00 – 5:00 PM Registration (continued)
9:00 – 9:15 AM Opening Remarks
Christopher Axelrod (Pennington Biomedical); Local Organizing Committee
9:15 – 10:00 AM Mitochondrial Respiratory Function in Living Cells
Erich Gnaiger (Oroboros Instruments)
10:00 – 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15 PM Coenzyme Q Junction and Respiratory Control
Mateus Grings (Oroboros Instruments)
11:15 – 12:00 PM Convergence and Additivity of Oxidative Phosphorylation and Electron Transfer Pathways; Developing Substrate, Uncoupler, Inhibitor, Titration Protocols
Adam Chicco (Colorado State University)
11:15 – 12:00 PM Coupling Efficiency: Biological Regulation and Experimental States
Erich Gnaiger (Oroboros Instruments)
12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch (Cook Conference Center)
1:00 – 2:30 PM Walk and Talk (Mike the Tiger’s Habitat)
2:30 – 3:15 PM Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:00 PM Mitochondrial Respiratory Control Efficiencies
Erich Gnaiger (Oroboros Instruments)
4:00 – 5:00 PM Mitochondrial Role in the Regulation of Lactate Shuttles
George Brooks (University of California, Berkeley)
5:00 – 6:00 PM Mitochondrial Physiology: Fatty Acid Oxidation
Charles Hoppel (Case Western Reserve University)
6:00 – 8:00 PM Dinner (Cook Conference Center)
May 20th (Conference Day 2)
6:00 – 8:45 AM Complimentary Breakfast (Cook Hotel)
7:00 – 8:00 AM Bioenergetics in Action – Run/Walk the LSU Lakes (Optional)
9:00 – 10:00 AM Protonmotive Force – from Motive Protons to Membrane Potential
Erich Gnaiger (Oroboros Instruments)
10:00 – 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15 PM Structural Regulation of Bioenergetic Function
Nelli Mnatsakanyan (Penn State University)
11:15 – 12:00 PM Quality Control and Comparison of Mitochondrial Respiration Media
Eleonora Baglivo (Oroboros Instruments)
12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch (Cook Conference Center)
1:00 – 2:30 PM Walk and Talk (Center))
2:30 – 3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 – 4:00 PM Mitochondria in Brain Ischemia Reperfusion: More Than Just Energy and ROS
Alexander Galkin (Weil Cornell)
4:00 – 4:45 PM Bioenergetic Efficiency and Regulation
Christopher L. Axelrod (Pennington Biomedical Research Center)
4:45 – 4:55 PM MIRO1 Regulates Skeletal Muscle Insulin Action, Mitochondrial Dynamics, and Bioenergetic Function
Analisa Taylor (Pennington Biomedical Research Center)
4:55 – 5:05 PM Mitochondrial Remodeling and Energetics During FoxO1-Mediated Adipose Transdifferentiation
Zhiyong Cheng (University of Florida, Gainsville)
5:05 – 5:15 PM Exploring the Impact of Novel Cardiolipin Disease Genes on Mitochondrial Function and Bioenergetics
Jana Aref (UCL Queen Square Institute of Technology)
5:15 – 5:25 PM Exercise Training Reverses Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Fragmentation and Improves OXPHOS Conductance in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
Elizabeth Heintz (Pennington Biomedical Research Center)
5:25 – 5:35 PM The Effects of Age and Acclimation Temperature on Mitochondrial ROS Production, Respiration, and Structure in Western Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta bellii)
Sam Hogue (Saint Louis University)
5:35 – 5:45 PM Lipin-1 Promotes Macrophage Mitochondrial Fission for Improved Inflammation Resolution
Oluwakemi Igiehon (LSU Health, Shreveport)
5:45 – 5:55 PM Hepatic Ketogenic Insufficiency Exacerbates Cognitive Impairment and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in the 5xFamilial Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Model
Taylor Kelty (University of Missouri, Columbia)
5:5 – 6:05 PM The contribution of tissue-specific mitochondrial respiration to individual variation in oxygen uptake during rest and exercise by the Gulf killifish, Fundulus grandis
Samantha Bowden (University of New Orleans)
6:05 – 6:15 PM The Role of Mitochondrial Coupling Efficiency in MASH-Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Elizabeth Zunica (Pennington Biomedical Research Center)
6:15 – 6:25 PM Session Wrap Up
6:30 – 8:30 PM Dinner (Cook Conference Center)
May 21st (Conference Day 3)
6:00 – 7:45 AM Complimentary Breakfast (Cook Hotel)
8:30 – 12:30 PM MiPschool Excursion(Optional Registration Item)
Atchafalaya Basin Swamp Tour
12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch (Cook Conference Center)
1:30 – 2:30 PM Sensing, Regulating, and Therapeutically Targeting Mitochondrial Bioenergetic Balance
P. Darrell Neuffer (Wake Forest University)
2:30 – 3:15 PM Bioenergetic Adaptation in Mitochondrial Diseases
Shilpa Iyer (University of Arkansas)
3:15 – 4:00 PM Immunoenergetics and Exercise
Brian Irving (LSU)
4:00 – 4:30 PM Coffee Break
4:30 – 5:15 PM Mitochondrial Function during Extreme Metabolic Transitions: From Bioenergetic Control to Oxidative Stress
Steven Hand (Louisiana State University)
5:15 – 6:00 PM Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Healthy Aging
Anthony Molina (UCSD)
6:00 – 6:45 PM Hepatocyte ATP Homeostasis Modulates Peripheral Control of Food Intake Inhibition
E. Matthew Morris (University of Kansas)
6:45 – 8:45 PM Dinner (Cook Conference Center)
May 22nd (Conference Day 4)
6:00 – 8:45 AM Complimentary Breakfast (Cook Hotel)
9:00 – 10:00 AM Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis and Uncoupling Proteins
Martin Jastroch (Stockholm University)
10:00 – 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15 PM Regulation of Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis by PGC-1alpha Isoforms
Ji Suk Chang (Pennington Biomedical Research Center)
11:15 – 12:00 PM Adaptation of Energy Metabolism to Low Oxygen Availability
Bernard Rees (University of New Orleans)
12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch (Cook Conference Center)
1:00 – 2:30 PM Walk and Talk (Downtown and Mississippi River Walk)
2:30 – 3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 – 3:45 PM Peroxisomes Protect Mitochondria and Coordinate Metabolic Flexibility in Skeletal Muscle
Robert Noland (Pennington Biomedical Research Center)
3:45 – 4:30 PM Precision targeting of mitochondrial bioenergetics in cancer
Kelsey Fisher-Wellman (Wake Forest University)
4:30 – 6:30 PM Poster Session (Think and Drink)
6:30 – 8:30 PM Dinner (Cook Conference Center)
7:30 – 8:30 PM Musical Performance by the Zydeco Roadrunners
May 23rd (Departure)
6:00 – 8:45 AM Complimentary Breakfast (Cook Hotel)
11:00 PM Check Out from Cook Hotel