Mitochondrial Diseases

Placido Navas obtained the PhD at the University of Seville, Spain. He developed a Fulbright postdoc with J. D. Morre and F. L. Crane at Purdue University, Indiana. After a period of Associate Professor at the University of Cordoba, he became Professor of Cell Biology at the University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, principal investigator at the Centro de Investigacion Biomedicaen Red (CIBER) of Rare Diseases, and he is the current Director of the Andalussian Center for Developmental Biology (CABD). His research has focused on the coenzyme Q homeostasis in respiratory chain and aging, and on the molecular diagnosis of coenzyme Q deficiency syndrome. Leonardo Salviati obtained his MD and PhD degrees at the University of Padova in Italy. After a postdoctoral fellowship in the labs of Salvatore Di Mauro and Eric Schon at Columbia University in New York, he was recruited by the department of Pediatrics of the University of Padova, where he is currently professor of Medical Genetics, and director of the Clinical Genetics Unit and of the Medical Genetics Residency Program. His research has focused on mitochondrial disorders, with a particular focus on coenzyme Q deficiency.

Chapter 1. MTOCHONRIAL NEUROLOGY: A TALE OF TWO GENOMES(Salvatore DiMauro and Emanuele Barca).- Chapter 2. Mutations in assembly factors required for the biogenesis of mitochondrial respiratory chain (Cristina Cerqua, Lisa Buson and Eva Trevisson).- Chapter 3. Mitochondrial DNA: defects, maintenance genes and depletion (Miguel A. Fernández-Moreno, Luis Vázquez-Fonseca, Sara Palacios Zambrano and Rafael Garesse).- Chapter 4. Mitochondrial translation deficiencies (Veronika Boczonadi, Juliane S. Müller and Rita Horvath).- Chapter 5. Mitochondria dynamics: definition, players and associated disorders (Maria EugeniaSoriano, Marta Carro Alvarellos, Giovanni Rigoni, and Luca Scorrano).- Chapter 6. Coenzyme Q biosynthesis disorders(Gloria Brea-Calvo, María Alcázar-Fabra, Eva Trevisson and Plácido Navas).- Chapter 7. Cytochrome c defects in human disease (Leonardo Salviati).- Chapter 8. Biochemical diagnosis of mitocondrial disorders (Delia Yubero, Raquel Montero, Rafael Artuch).- Chapter 9. Molecular genetics in the Next Generation Sequencing era (Joaquin Dopazo).- Chapter 10. Model cells and organisms in mitochondrial diseases (Rhoda Stefanatos, Alberto Sanz, Daniel J M Fernandez-Ayala).- Chapter 11. Therapies approaches in mitochondrial diseases (Valentina Emmanuele, Catarina M Quinzii, and Michio Hirano).