Maya Schuldiner has won the Otto Warburg Medal for her work on #ContactSites!! Fantastic time at the 77th Mosbacher Kolloquium, absolutely outstanding science and an emotional family reunion of Schuldigang alumni and their labs. Thanks to the organizers and @gbmev.bsky.social for an amazing meeting!

Happy our lab could contribute to this exciting story from the Thomas Becker and Nikolaus Pfanner labs! A protein #Translocase forms #LipidDroplet #Mitochondria #ContactSites via a substrate-mimicry mechanism! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚀 Delighted to share our latest story- unraveling the primary sites of ferroptosis: the ER-mitochondria contacts! Huge thanks to @agostinislab.bsky.social and the awesome collabs! @viblifesciences.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ferroptosis #contactsites

Endoplasmic reticulum–mitochondria contacts are prime hotspots of phospholipid peroxidation driving ferroptosis - Nature Cell Biology Sassano et al. identify endoplasmic reticulum–mitochondria contact sites as the intracellular location where phospholipid peroxidation first occurs to promote ferroptosis. Manipulating these contact s...

🚨 Where does #lipid peroxidation kick off in #ferroptosis? 🔥Excited to reveal #ER- #mitochondria #contactsites as the ignition point of the lipid peroxidation cascade! Huge kudos to our Maria Livia Sassano @mariamls.bsky.social & our amazing collaborators who made this breakthrough possible!

Join us next week Tuesday for the #DGZ Focus Workshop on #membrane organization and #contactsites, at noon via zoom, organized by Katja Zieske and @buttnerlab.bsky.social 👩‍🔬🧬