Pete and Annika win poster prizes at TriMAD – Congrats!
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
The 2-day Translational Research in Mitochondria, Aging and Disease (TRiMAD) conference was hosted in Rochester. There were 170 scientists with over 90 posters. Annika Muller-Eigner and Peter Girardi each won a poster prize for their work.
Well done!
TRiMAD Mitochondria Conference comes to Rochester
Monday, October 7, 2024
On October 7th & 8th, the 11th annual Translational Research in Mitochondria, Aging and Disease (TRiMAD) conference was hosted in Rochester. The meeting started in Pittsburgh in 2011, and traditionally has rotated between Pitt, Penn State (State College PA), and UPenn (Philadelphia). Our Mitochondria Research Interest Group (MRIG) always has a strong showing at the meeting, so when the opportunity came to host it here Paul Brookes and Andrew Wojtovich took on the challenge. The 2-day meeting attracted 170 scientists from New York, Pennsylvania and further afield (Minnesota, Canada, California, North Carolina). The event also served as the kick-off for the first annual Shey-Shing Sheu Endowed Lecture in Mitochondrial Biology, a new award housed in the Pharm/Phys Department. The inaugural recipient was Siegfried Hekimi from McGill University, who spoke about Co-enzyme Q in mitochondria and aging. The second day's keynote speaker was Elizabeth Jonas from Yale, a frequent visitor to and collaborator with Rochester, who spoke about the mitochondrial permeability transition pore in neuronal function. The conference also featured 12 plenary speakers, with sessions focused on cancer, cardiovascular, neurology, aging, and mitoDNA. Around half the attendees were trainees, with the poster session seeing 90 posters, plus 10 trainee short talks selected from abstracts. Generous sponsorship from several URMC Departments plus outside companies enabled the conference to serve food and drink, award poster prizes. Planning is already underway for next year's TRiMAD, with the possibility to bring the meeting back to Rochester in the future.
Katherine Neyland Awarded the 2024 deKiewiet Fellowship and nominated for Student Employee of the Year
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Katherine was awarded a deKiewiet Fellowship to continue her research studying mitochondria over the summer. During the school year, Kate is a student employee and her efforts keep our lab running. We are appreciative of all her hard work and she was nominated for Student Employee of the Year.
Congrats Kate!