From the very beginning, the main initiator of these meetings was the Bioenergetics Section of the Polish Biochemical Society. MITOCHONDRION conferences were also held in Poznań and Wrocław. The co-organizers of this year’s meeting were the Nencki Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Biophysical Society and the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Biochemical Society. This year’s bioenergy meeting commemorates prof. Lech Wojtczak (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35107954/), an outstanding bioenergetician and long-time President of the Polish Biochemical Society. Hence the initials LW in the name of this year’s edition.
The meeting was organized online on the ZOOM platform, enabling participants from abroad and various research centers in Poland to participate. The scientific program was created on the basis of the submitted abstracts. Opening lecture entitled „Mitochondrial ion channels as pharmacological targets in cancer” was delivered by Ildiko Szabo from the University of Padua (Italy). The remaining lectures were delivered by: Thomas Becker (Bonn University, Germany), Helmut Bischof (University of Tuebingen, Germany), Małgorzata Heidorn-Czarna (University of Wrocław) and Lara Testai (Pisa University, Italy). The closing lecture was delivered by Harpreet Singh (The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA).
Short oral statements were presented by the following people: Volodymyr Balatskyi (Nencki Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Adrianna Budzińska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), Adrianna Dąbrowska (SGGW, Warsaw), Joanna Jasińska (Nencki Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Patrycja Kaczara (Jagiellonian University ), Barbara Kalenik (Nencki Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Agnieszka Karaś (Jagiellonian University), Paweł Kochany (Medical University of Gdańsk), Katarzyna Lorencik (Jagiellonian University), Dominika Malińska (Nencki Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Arkadiusz Michałowski (Nencki Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences , Warsaw), Amit Kumar Nagwani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), Anna Olszewska (Medical University of Gdańsk), Karolina Pytlak (Nencki Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Michał Rurek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań). The book of abstracts is available on the website of the Acta Biochimica Polonica. 102 people took part in the conference. On the second day of the conference, an online Poster Session was held, in which 21 messages were presented.
More information: https://mito23.ptbioch.edu.pl/index.php .
