📣 Don’t miss our upcoming @mito911.bsky.social #webinar featuring Thomas Melia, PhD, from Yale School of Medicine.
👇 Reserve your spot using the link below.
📅 April 21
⏰ 11:00 AM ET
RSVP: bit.ly/4sfBDiF
The application deadline for the 20th FEBS/EMBO Spetses meeting is extended to the 15th March! Please sign up at the link below, or encourage your PhDs and postdocs to come along for what is certain to be a wonderful week!
Rearrangement of amphipathic helices enables lipid uptake at ATG2A N-terminus.
📢 New #preprint from CRN Team Hurley!
The team uncovers the mechanism of ATG2A-mediated lipid transport 🧪
Structural modeling and simulations show that N-terminal helices gate lipid transfer, and a designed mutant transfers lipids three times faster in vitro.
🔗 bit.ly/3ZVAxw6
At #BPS2026? 🧬 Come talk structural biology & mTORC1 signaling!
I'll be at Poster B220 this Tuesday, 2:45–3:45 PM.
I’m also building the Cui Lab at CU Anschutz and looking for postdocs/students interested in Cryo-EM and ML. Let's chat! 🧪🏔️
#Biophysics #CryoEM #StructuralBiology
Between this and the recent work from the Wilfling Lab
@wilflinglab.bsky.social it seems clear that cryo-ET is the new method of choice to study condensation mechanisms.
How does molecular valency shape condensate assembly and function? We used the CO2-fixing organelle in algae—the pyrenoid—to find out… 🧵
Preprint here!:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@cellarchlab.com @phaips.vd.st @biologyatyork.bsky.social
#Rubisco #PhaseSeparation #Condensates #Pyrenoid
Glad to have such great company!
I even would go a bit further. This is on a whole different level than anything on the topic up to now.
Seen in the neighborhood: On integrating theory and practice.
⚡️Mitochondria make ATP, the energy that powers life. But in neurons, with axons up to a meter long, how do these tiny power plants stay functional in the right places? We went looking. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
So Darwin also discovered the Dunning-Kruger effect, not only natural selection.
Alpha Fold predictions: trust but verify (original "доверяй, но проверяй").
New pre-print out on the stepwise recruitment to membrane of the #autophagy ULK1 complex from the @mito911.bsky.social from @martenslab.bsky.social Ian Ganley @hummerlab.bsky.social @jimhurley.bsky.social labs
with the generous support of @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Membrane dynamics, repair and disease Keystone symposium this February in Colorado. The real, true, final abstract deadline is tonight so the organizers can start picking the short talks tomorrow! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Thrilled to join you and Claudine to study the cell's own version of Banksy's self-shredding artwork!
Compliance is a lot of work. Hats off to @doroteaartscience.bsky.social for her tireless efforts, and everyone in team @mito911.bsky.social .
Collaborative. Creative. Impactful. Come join us in Ann Arbor! For more information and application link see jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675674/f...
Join us in sunny California for the 2026 GRC Autophagy meeting! Excited to co-chair with Oliver Florey and vice chairs Helene Knaevelsrud and @robzonculab.bsky.social
Keynote speakers incl. Eileen White, @idikic.bsky.social and Sharon Tooze- Registration is open: link⬇️ www.grc.org/autophagy-in...
Congratulations, Monther!
I just saw this in the NYT and now here- congratulations!
Early-career scientists - last call! ⏰ Submit your short talk abstract or scholarship app by Oct 8 (11:59 pm MDT) for Autophagy: Mechanisms to Therapy. Join @annesimonsen.bsky.social, Dan Baird & others!
🔗 keysym.us/KSAutophagy26
🎥 youtu.be/4Y6YvL-unAM
#KSAutophagy26 #autophagy #mitophagy
📣 Don't miss out on the upcoming mito911 #webinar featuring Karin Reinisch, PhD, from the Yale School of Medicine.
👇 Reserve your spot using the link below.
📅 October 20
⏰ 11:00 AM ET
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Position available! Team @mito911.bsky.social needs a new scientific program manager to take over from legendary super-PM @doroteaartscience.bsky.social, who is moving on to bigger things. This is a Berkeley-based position. Apply at aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05103.
Finally in @nature.com 🎉
We uncovered step-wise mTORC1 activation on membrane: RAG–Ragulator recruits, RHEB pushes closer, and direct membrane contacts by RAPTOR + mTOR trigger full kinase activity.👉 The membrane is not just a platform — it’s part of the mechanism.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks, Brett. @chen3dem.bsky.social did an incredible job, and everything came together.
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
Congratulations (even if it is hardly a surprise!)
📣 Don't miss out on the upcoming @mito911.bsky.social webinar featuring Katie Drerup, PhD, from the University of Wisconsin.
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📅 September 8
⏰ 11:00 AM EST
RSVP: bit.ly/4mUJeAc
🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget!
House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.
To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
