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sofiaahola.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Uni Birmingham, 🇬🇧 working on mitochondrial diseases, stress signalling, metabolism and ferroptosis. Hobby science artist 🎨 http://www.sofiaahola.com PhD 🇫🇮 @helsinkiuni | Postdoc 🇩🇪 @mpiage @cecad
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Ahead of #RareDiseaseDay, please join us to educate and increase awareness about rare mitochondrial diseases Getting mito in the public eye helps drive research, boost donations and improve clinical care for those affected Please share to advance rare www.thelilyfoundation.org.uk/affected-by-...

Nature, Science, Sauna, Mitochondria. Great line up of speakers! 😀 💚 Mitochondria Summer School in Finland May2025! 💚 www.oulu.fi/en/events/mi...

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...

Supporting #bcfcwomen to victory! 💙 @unibirmingham.bsky.social is the official partner of the Blues now

Such a great pleasure to host @dplamartin.bsky.social at UoB! A day full of cool science about #mitochondria, #endosomes and #mtDNA! Thank you for the visit!

Great scientist and a person! Can highly recommend! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬🧬🧪 There are two of us behing this door 👩🏼‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬 @mashauob.bsky.social and many more @unibirmingham.bsky.social #WomeninSTEM #WomenInScience

Always good to talk more about #mitochondria! It was my great pleasure to have @martazaninello.bsky.social to visit us in @unibirmingham.bsky.social and give a seminar on RNA-binding proteins, axons and mitochondria! 💚 Even Old Joe was #GreenForMito and #mitoaware 💚

🧪Thrilled to share the latest research from the lab of my awesome @umasschan.bsky.social colleague Jessica Spinelli (who isn't on here yet) and collaborators: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

❄️ No #mitochondria in this one but wishing you all Happy Holidays! ❄️

Stoked to share TWO preprints on mitochondrial pearling! 🎉 We uncover how spontaneous #mitochondria pearling drives #mtDNA nucleoid distribution (doi.org/10.1101/2024...), and @gavsturm.bsky.social et al. dissect the biophysics behind it (doi.org/10.1101/2024...). Details below! 🔬🧵🧪

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

Two fully funded PhD opportunities in our lab. Interdisciplinary, DNA replication, cancer research, structural biology… deadlines in early Jan. Open to international students. t.co/WEJJIU4zU4 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

There’s a really exciting range of PhD projects on offer through the MRC “AIM” doctoral training partnership between the Universities of Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham. 4-year funded studentships with great training opportunities too. Check out the options: more.bham.ac.uk/mrc-aim/phd-...

🔍 mTORC1 Research: New Findings Challenge Old Model 🧫🧪Congrats to the Demetriades Lab team! #mTORC1 #Research And special thanks to @sofiaahola.bsky.social for the great picture! www.age.mpg.de/415628/24112...

Let's update all social fields (e.g. @orcid.bsky.social ) to make @bsky.app the new default for science networking! Hopefully conferences and journals follow suit!

On the cover #MolecularCell. In this issue Acharya and Demetriades show how #mTORC1 🎈activation mediates its own release from the #lysosomes 🪐🌎. It was my pleasure to bring to life the grand idea from Aishwarya and Costas!

Frozen morning at #UniversityofBirmingham

Bridging lipid metabolism and mitochondrial genome maintenance www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Happy to join this platform to keep updated on science topics. Curious to read what new is growing on mitochondria, cell biology, metabolism and beyond (Figure 1A) 🤓