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First-gen | postdoctoral scientist in the Wojtovich Lab | mitochondrial redox stress and environmental toxicology 🧪🔬 Views are my own.
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Excited to share this! Using a combination of light-activated superoxide anion production, chemical inhibitors, and S1QEL1.1, an inhibitor of CI Q-site electron leak, we show that CI superoxide anion production can drive dopaminergic neurodegeneration. #mitochondria #Celegans #science🧪

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Astonishing paper that makes you question if you truly understand #mitochondrial dynamics 😅 The complexity of Parkin, Oma1, Opa1, Mfn1 in coordinating mitochondrial fitness. The story of Megamitochondria with MegaDNA and an overwhelming amount of mouse crosses www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Researchers discovered that long-term #intermittentfasting might be unsafe for teenagers, as it can disrupt the development of #insulin-producing #betacells and potentially raise the risk of #metabolicdisorders: go.tum.de/160744 @www.helmholtz-munich.de @barteltlab.bsky.social 📷L.Matta

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Lead continues to poison. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

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History repeating itself, this time with #PFOS. 🧵 "The fertilizer was promoted as an environmental win-win for years." www.texastribune.org/2024/12/02/t...

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Personal Update www.altmetric.com/about-us/our...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

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It was so good to catch up with everyone at #SfRBM2024 , and I’m extremely honored to have received the Irwin Fridovich Young Investigator Award 💖 thank you to the many people who stopped by my poster for so much input and conversation. Only one year until we do it all again!

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Very well deserved!

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Finally moved to #Bluesky and happy to share our recent work! We found that hexokinase 1 rapidly forms rings around #mitochondria during energy stress to regulate mitochondrial fission: www.cell.com/molecular-ce... For a quick summary of our findings, check out the comment section.

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Cool new work from the lab by @chris-morrow.bsky.social: Often we think of auto-fluorescence as a hindrance to experiments - but endogenous metabolites have specific fluorescence we can use to determine the metabolic state of the cell - and predict lifespan.. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

UCSF hosted its first food pantry event for postdocs today, where a local food bank gives free food to UCSF employees. This picture represents about half the line that had formed 10 minutes before the market had opened. What the fuck are we doing here guys?

submitted 98 days ago • 26 comments

Sometimes at scientific conferences (SfRBM) John Cena is filming at your hotel?!? 👀

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

So excited to see everyone at SfRBM in Savannah this week! Come chat with me at my poster Saturday for the latest updates ❤️🧪 #redoxbiology #mitochondria

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Excited to share our new publication out today in Nature Communications! Congrats to the team! @craggasap.bsky.social #dopamine #astrocytes #acetylcholine #openscience Supported by @ukri.org and @asapresearch.bsky.social rdcu.be/d0Knj

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

Hi friends! If we haven’t met, I’m Kate, a freshly graduated PhD in environmental health from the Meyer Lab at Duke University :) I research mechanisms of mitochondrial toxicants like many pesticides, with a particular interest in Mito redox biology 🧪

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#StarterPack for the #Mitochondria research community! Very much a work in progress, comment below/reach out to be added! #Mito #Mitochondriac go.bsky.app/J6Bu5fL

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