MitoCross members at the 25th tRNA Conference in Greece

The 25^th tRNA Conference took place in Kyllini, Greece, from the 21^st to the 25^th of September 2014. Strasbourg and mitoCross members were largely represented …

… and actives, with :

• four talks given

1. Laurence Maréchal-Drouard (Team 3): Metazoan mitochondrial genome expression: the tRNA punctuation model revisited
2. Philippe Giegé (Team 5): Exploring the mode of action, diversity and evolution of protein-only RNaseP
3. Hubert D. Becker (Team 2): The yeast AME multisynthetase complex controls mitochondrial ATP production by coordinating expression and assembly of the F1FO ATP synthase
4. Ivan Tarassov (Team 1): Modeling gene therapy of mitochondrial diseases by imported small RNA

• five sessions chaired

1.  Session 5 - tRNA:Processing, Transport, Localization
   chairs: L. Maréchal-Drouard (France), A. Hopper (USA)
2. Session 7 - IUBMB Symposium "the dynamic networks of the tRNA protein community" II
   chairs: H.D. Becker (France), P.L. Fox (USA)
3. Session 8 - tRNA: Recognition and aminoacylation I
   chairs: C. Florentz (France), I. Gruic Sovulj (Croatia)
4. Session 11 - tRNA: Regulation, Genomics, Disease I
   chairs: I. Tarassov (France), A. Ferré-D'Amaré (USA)
5. Session 14 - tRNA: Systems Biology
   chairs: J. Pütz (France), D.H. Ardell (USA)

• and a poster prize awarded

Daphné Laporte (Team 2) : Nuclear import pathway and interactome of Saccharomyces cerevisaie methionyl-tRNA synthetase