MitOX 2026
MitOX is our annual meeting packed with short talks and posters on cancer metabolism, neuroscience, diabetes, mitochondrial disorders and general mitochondrial biology.

You can find more infomation and the booking link on our website: www.wrh.ox.ac.uk/news/mitox-2026

Dr Michele Frison: Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge
Title: Ubiquitin-mediated mitophagy regulates the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA mutations

Prof Ian Ganley: University of Dundee
Title: Balancing mitophagy: a role for AMPK

Dr Raffaele Sarnataro: Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford
Title: Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep

Dr Tom Nicol: DPAG, University of Oxford
Title: Regulating complex I assembly in development and disease – Controlling the MCIA complex

Dr Joerg Burgstaller: University of Vienna
Title: Segregation of an mtDNA OriL microsatellite in heteroplasmic mice

Prof Benoit Kornmann: Biochemistry, University of Oxford
Title: Miro GTPases and their conserved role in mitochondrial quality control

Dr Konstantinos Lekkos: IDRM, University of Oxford
Title: Opposing roles of Mdh1ab and Slc25a51b in regulating long-term heart regeneration through OXPHOS-dependent cardiomyocyte redifferentiation
Date: 9 April 2026, 9:00
Venue: This event is hybrid
Speakers: Dr Michele Frison (Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge), Prof Ian Ganley (University of Dundee), Dr Raffaele Sarnataro (Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford), Dr Tom Nicol (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Joerg Burgstaller (University of Vienna), Prof Benoit Kornmann (Biochemistry, University of Oxford), Dr Konstantinos Lekkos (IDRM, University of Oxford)
Organising department: Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.wrh.ox.ac.uk/news/mitox-2026
Audience: Public
Editor: Isobel Way