The first mitochondrial genomics and evolution SMBE-Satellite meeting: A new scientific symbiosis

Oren Ostersetzer-Biran, Nick Lane, Andrew Pomiankowski, Ron Burton, Göran Arnqvist, Aleksandra Filipovska, Dorothée Huchon, Dan Mishmar*

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Abstract

The central role of the mitochondrion for cellular and organismal metabolism is well known, yet its functional role in evolution has rarely been featured in leading international conferences. Moreover, the contribution of mitochondrial genetics to complex disease phenotypes is particularly important, and although major advances have been made in the field of genomics, mitochondrial genomic data have in many cases been overlooked. Accumulating data and new knowledge support a major contribution of this maternally inherited genome, and its interactions with the nucleus, to both major evolutionary processes and diverse disease phenotypes. These advances encouraged us to assemble the first Mitochondrial Genomics and Evolution (MGE) meeting—an SMBE satellite and Israeli Science foundation international conference (Israel, September 2017). Here, we report the content and outcome of the MGE meeting (https://www.mge2017.com/; last accessed November 5, 2017).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3054-3058
Number of pages5
JournalGenome Biology and Evolution
Volume9
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2017

Funding

FundersFunder number
Israeli Science Foundation2194/17
Israeli Science Foundation
MGE
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Company of BiologistsEA1278
Ministry of Science, Technology and Space
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel Science Foundation
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel

    Keywords

    • Evolution
    • Genomics
    • Mitochondria
    • Mitochondrial DNA

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