CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 08/07/2026🚴City Cycling 2026 – Mission accomplished! Congrats to the mitoCRC team, especially Robert Düster and Alex Kaczmarek, our top riders! As part of the University Hospital team we finished second in all of Cologne 💪 Thanks to everyone who pedaled with us towards a healthier & more sustainable future🌍 032
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 23/06/2026🌱 Small Changes, Big Impact! 🌱 At yesterday’s Sustainability Lunch Talk of the @unicologne.bsky.social, CRC1218 PI and Sustainability Board member @valentinapiano.bsky.social shared insights into sustainable research practices, highlighting implemented measures, opportunities, and challenges. 052
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 22/05/2026📢A research team led by CRC1218 PI Dr. Mauro Corrado discovered that the lipid cardiolipin helps control the immune response in the gut and influences inflammation severity. Congratulations to Dr. Mauro Corrado and the entire team on their publication!👏 www.nature.com/articles/s42...nature.comCardiolipin preserves Treg metabolic fitness and immune homeostasis in the gut - Nature MetabolismThis study describes that cardiolipin deficiency-induced mitochondrial dysfunction in Treg cells impairs gut–immune tolerance. 020
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 22/05/2026👉Paper alert👈 The @riemerlab.bsky.social discovered that cytosolic PRDX1 acts as an extramitochondrial sink to set mitochondrial H2O2 levels and enable resilience to chronic mitochondrial oxidative stress. Congrats to all researchers involved! 👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comCytosolic PRDX1 acts as an extramitochondrial sink to set mitochondrial H2O2 levels and enable resilience to chronic mitochondrial oxidative stressHydrogen peroxide (H2O2) plays a dual role as both a signalling molecule and a mediator of oxidative stress. Although mitochondria are major producers… 032
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 21/04/2026👉Join the City Cycling challenge from 10 to 30 June 2026! 🚴♀️ Let's collect kilometers and make a difference—for our health and the climate 🌱 Sign up with the mitoCRC1218 subgroup under Gesunde Uniklinik and start pedaling! Every km counts—are you in? 💪 www.stadtradeln.de/index.php?id... 122
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 15/04/2026🚨Be quick! Registration is filling up fast!🚨 More than half of the registration spots for the international conference "Mitochondria Volume 3" have already been taken. Register soon if you'd like to attend this fantastic opportunity! 👉Register now: mitochondria-volume3.uni-koeln.de #mitochondria 042
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 08/04/2026🚨 Registration is open! 🚨 Join us for "Mitochondria Vol. 3: Mitochondrial Plasticity in Metabolism and Signalling", a free-of-charge international conference organized by the CRC 1218! 🗓 When: 05–07 October 2026 📍 Where: MTI, UzK Cologne, Germany 👉 Register now: mitochondria-volume3.uni-koeln.de 099
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The 2-day CRC1218 PI Retreat at Schloss Burgbrohl has successfully concluded last week. In a beautiful setting, the retreat brought together engaging scientific talks, lively discussions, and inspiring exchange. We sincerely thank all participants for their contributions and enthusiasm! 020
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 15/12/2025We’re excited to share that also this year, we’ve offset CO2 emissions for all travel grants awarded to our early career researchers in 2025! 🌱 The CRC1218 is committed to fostering scientific progress while protecting the planet🌍 #SustainableScience #ScienceForTheFuture 030
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 11/12/2025🌟 Exciting Kick-off for our Female Mentoring Program! 🌟 Last Friday our mentees kicked off their journey with a hands-on workshop, learning the core principles of effective mentoring and how to build an independent, impactful mentoring relationship. 💪✨ #WomenSupportingWomen #FemaleMentoring 141
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 14/11/2025A publication rarity these days: An author list significantly shorter than the paper title! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations to our Advanced PostDoc Grant Awardee, Qiaochu Li (@qiaochuli.bsky.social), for her discoveries published in NCB [see thread]:nature.comLeucine inhibits degradation of outer mitochondrial membrane proteins to adapt mitochondrial respiration - Nature Cell BiologyLi et al. uncover a connection between metabolic cues and mitochondrial protein degradation, showing that specifically leucine stabilizes outer mitochondrial membrane proteins by inhibiting ubiquityla... 150
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Congratulation also to the @riemerlab.bsky.social who just identified FAM136A as a new substrate of the mitochondrial disulphide relay and its implementations in IMS proteostasis and cellular fitness. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comThe mitochondrial disulphide relay substrate FAM136A safeguards IMS proteostasis and cellular fitnessThe mitochondrial disulphide relay is the key machinery for import and oxidative protein folding in the mitochondrial intermembrane space. Among IMS p… 052
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 04/11/2025👉Paper alert👈 Check out the latest read from the Schwarz lab: Fu and Kohl identify persulfidation loss and hydrogen sulfide release as consequence of full-body SOX-deficiency in mice. Congratulations to everybody involved!👏 www.jci.org/articles/vie...jci.org JCI - Sulfite oxidase deficiency causes persulfidation loss and hydrogen sulfide release 010
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 04/11/2025📣Publication alert📣 A wonderful collaborative effort of the CRC 1218: The lab of Mafalda Escobar-Henriques reveals that C-terminally extended ubiquitin (CxUb) is essential for mitophagy, proteostasis and longevity through a previously undefined CxUb-Ufd2 axis. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comUbiquitin precursor with C-terminal extension promotes proteostasis and longevityUbiquitin is a conserved modifier regulating the stability and function of numerous target proteins. In all eukaryotes, polyubiquitin precursors are g… 010
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 03/09/2025A big thank you to Thomas Splettstößer for leading an insightful Adobe Illustrator workshop on visual communication in science for our PhDs & PostDocs! We’re excited to apply what we’ve learned! 🙌 #AdobeIllustrator #VisualCommunication #Science #WorkshopSuccess 020
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Publication alert! Congratulations to everybody involved in this collaborative effort👏 030
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 04/08/2025🌟 What an incredible event! Amazing location & fantastic science. 🌟 Our Graduation Symposium PhDone last Friday was a great success! Huge thanks to our speakers for their insightful and emotional presentations, and to everyone for the valuable networking. #ECR #mitoCRC #PhDone 173
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 24/07/2025What an exciting step in the careers of Camilla Franchino, Deniz Savcigil and Sandrina Campos Macas, who just joined our Mentoring Program! Promoting career advancement and professional development through impactful networking. We wish you a successful journey!👩🔬🚀 #CareerDevelopment #WomenEmpowerment 110
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 03/07/2025🚴 This. was. great! 🚴♀️ In this year‘s #CityCycling, the #mitoCRC made it into the #Top10 of the Uniclinis, which was the best team in all of Cologne! Well done! We are really impressed by all the #sustainability enthusiasts around us! Photo: Our youngest team member😍 #Stadtradeln #Köln #Klimaschutz 130
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 30/06/2025What an outstanding achievement by our #mitoRTG member Annamaria Regina, (@annamariaregina.bsky.social)! We are extremely proud of your #passion and engagement in #ScienceCommunication! #FameLab 051
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 17/06/2025📣Lecture Announcement📣 Join us: Next Monday, the CRC 1218 and the CRC 1403, will host an interactive lecture on #ResearchDataManagement - "Folders and File Names 101: Because organising data can be hard". Don't miss it: 🗓️ 23.06. at 10 AM 📍CECAD Lecture Hall @sfb1403.bsky.social #datascience 021
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 19/05/2025🏆We are extremely proud of our Vice Spokesperson Prof. Aleksandra Trifunovic who just received the Max Delbrück Award 2025 of @unicologne.bsky.social. A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding scientific achievements. Congrats!🎉 ▶️ youtu.be/ayE9q9nKvyc #mitochondria #lifescience #UniKölnyoutu.beProf. Dr. Aleksandra Trifunovic // Max Delbrück-Preis 2025YouTube video by UniversitaetzuKoeln 0111
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Congratulations to our mitoCRC project leader Prof. Jens Brüning on receiving the University Award 2024 in the category of Research of @unicologne.bsky.social in recognition of his exceptional scientific achievements! 0141
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Big congratulations to the three awardees of our mitoCRC Advanced PostDoc Grant! We're thrilled to support Dr. Qiaochu Li, Dr. @aleksandra-zecic.bsky.social and Dr. Andromachi in their first steps toward an independent research line. Well-deserved success! 🎉 #mitochondria #PostDoc #womeninscience 260
Reposted by CRC1218Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 13/05/2025In their Review, Eleonora Zilio, Elena Rugarli and colleagues @cecad.bsky.social @crc1218.bsky.social discuss the role of mitochondrial mRNA translation in cellular communication. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #JCSMitoSI #Mitochondria 072
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 24/04/2025🚴♂️ mitoCRC joins #Stadtradeln 2025! From June 11–July 1, we’re cycling for climate & health – and challenging @crc1678.bsky.social & CRC 1403! Join our team “CRC 1218 – mitoCRC” (under Gesunde Uniklinik) and help us pedal to victory! 🌍💪 🔗 Register: www.stadtradeln.de/koeln #BikeForClimate #mitoCRCstadtradeln.deSTADTRADELN - Radeln für ein gutes KlimaBeim Wettbewerb STADTRADELN trittst du 21 Tage in die Pedale für mehr Radförderung, Klimaschutz und Lebensqualität in deiner Kommune. 020
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 15/04/2025In recognition of his key role in the #mitoCRC and his valuable skill set, we’ve awarded our talented PostDoc Robert Düster a Family Support Grant! We hope to support the reconciliation of work and family life to better promote young talents in science. #mitoResearch #Equality #FamiliesInScience 040
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 15/04/2025📢Registration open!📢 So proud to see our very own Elisa Motori co-hosting this exciting EMBO Workshop: “Mitochondria in the Nervous System” Co-sponsored by the CRC1218! Two invited speakers of the CRC1218! Don’t miss out! 🗓 29.09.-02.10.2025 📍Engelberg, CH 👉 meetings.embo.org/event/25-mit... 050
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 21/03/2025👩🔬mito-RTG at KölnerKinderUni👨🔬 The mitoRTG hosted 2 workshops at the KölnerKinderUni! Future scientists aged 8 to 12 learned in hands-on experiments how the uniqueness of individuals is encoded in the DNA🧬 A big thank you to Lara, Lilli and Eileen for making it all happen! #KKU2025 #ScienceForKids 150
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 10/03/2025🌟The mitoRetreat 2025 was a huge success🌟 Great science, inspiring feedback, fantastic networking, and outstanding performances from our young researchers. The perfect weather truly reflected the retreat’s success☀️ A big thank you to all participants for making it unforgettable! #Research #SFB1218 041
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 05/02/2025📣👨🔬Publication alert!👨🔬📣 Check out this interesting review on mitochondrial protein import stress, co-written by our mitoCRC member Prof. Thomas Becker! Recently published in @naturecellbiology.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #mitochondria #mitoCRCnature.comMitochondrial protein import stress - Nature Cell BiologyCells respond to mitochondrial protein import stress by regenerating clogged import sites and inducing stress responses. Mitochondria are thus tightly integrated into the cellular proteostasis and str... 040
CRC1218 @crc1218.bsky.social · 05/02/2025📢🚨The mitoCRC calls for applications for an Advanced PostDoc grant.🚨📢 The grant aims at supporting advanced PostDocs in Cologne on their way to an independent research line in the field of #mitochondria. A prior association to the #mitoCRC is not necessary to apply. #postdoc #science 030