Semi-Autonomous Organelles: From Fundamental Processes to Translation in Agriculture and Medicine

The Gordon Research Seminar on Mitochondria and Chloroplasts is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas. The seminar will select attendees from the submitted abstracts to present their latest work in front of their peers. This meeting will be a great place for the young scientists to relax and enjoy science, extend the social network, conceive new ideas, and foster future collaborations. The GRS will strongly encourage all attendees to explore active discussions to maximize the experience and advance the knowledge throughout this meeting.

Mitochondria and chloroplasts differ from other cellular compartments by their endosymbiotic origin, their semiautonomous genetic systems, their role in energy transduction, and their complex biology. The 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria and Chloroplasts will bring together established scientists and young researchers to present and discuss emerging aspects of organelle biology. It will have a strong focus on basic biological processes and an interdisciplinary nature that brings together scientists from the fungal, animal and plant communities. Specific sessions will be dedicated to organelle evolution, their gene expression systems, the import of proteins and their assembly into functioning complexes, signaling pathways and stress response, disintegration of organelles during aging and senescence, and how all these are being translated to agriculture and medicine.