1999 NIH Research Festival Mitochondria Minisymposium

[Guest guest]

Hi,

The Mitochondria Minisymposium, " Mitochondrial Diseases

from Bench to Bedside " , at this year's National Institutes

of Health Research Festival will be 6 October 1999 from

2:00-4:00 pm. Its web site is:

http://www.nih.gov/sigs/mito/poster.html.

Featured is Fischel-Ghodsian of Cedar-Sinai speaking

on mitochondrial mutations and hearing loss. Also featured

are talks about AIDS drugs and mitochondria, apoptosis and

mitochondria, gene therapy of mitochondrial DNA mutations,

the significance of uncoupling respiration from energy

production, and non-invasive measurements of mitochondrial

function. There is an accompanying poster session from

12:30-2:00 pm.

The Minisymposium will be available on the web in real time

(and later archived) at http://videocast.nih.gov, on the

NIH Mbone system, and could be available for teleconferencing

(contact me).

Best Regards,

Steve Zullo

J. Zullo, PhD

Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics

NIMH-NIH; Bldg. 10, Rm. 2D56; 9000 Rockville Pike

Bethesda, MD 20892

; FAX

zullo@...

New Mitochondria Interest Group Web Page:

<http://www.nih.gov/sigs/mito/>

First generation Mitochondria Interest Group Web Page:

<http://www-lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~zullo/migDB/>

Phage-Tech Interest Group (PhTIG) Web Page:

<http://www.nih.gov/sigs/phtig/>