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Mariana Borsa

@nanaborsa.bsky.social
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🇧🇷 scientist | Professor at University of Basel. Metabolic organelles and ageing | Wellcome Trust Fellow | 🇬🇧 Postdoc @University of Oxford, Simon Lab | Former SNSF & MSCA Fellow | 🇨🇭 PhD @ETH, Oxenius Lab. She/her orcid.org/0000-0003-1519-2597

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Mariana Borsa @nanaborsa.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Honoured to serve as President of the Swiss Young Immunologists Society (SYIS). We aim to connect early-career immunologists across Switzerland, strengthen our community, and support professional growth. Looking forward to what we will achieve together! To join the team syis-ecr.org/join-our-team/
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Join Our Team!
Join Our Team! The SYIS team consists of enthusiastic YIs that work together in order to continue building the society and host various events. Our tasks include communication with the SSAI/yEFIS, …
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Mariana Borsa @nanaborsa.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Bittersweet farewell weeks at @kiroxford.bsky.social, a place pivotal to my growth as an independent scientist. With deep gratitude for this chapter, I'm thrilled to begin the next at @unibas.ch @biomedizin.unibas.ch, where my lab will study organelle inheritance in T cells in the context of ageing.
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
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Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
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Sarah Ross @sarahhross.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
#Immunology out now @science.org After initial priming in the lymph nodes, mouse CD8 T cells undergo a second phase of stable interactions with dendritic cells that can preferentially stimulate those with a high-affinity for antigen. buff.ly/49bKcTG By Jobin, Seetharama, Rüttger et al.
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Mariana Borsa @nanaborsa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Fantastic week in Frankfurt at the #FCQC2025. Terrific talks, inspiring science and a great opportunity to meet my mentor, colleagues and collaborators in person. Big thanks to @sfb1177.bsky.social and @dikiclab.bsky.social. Please do it again!
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Ivan Zanoni @lozanzi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
#InterferonFriendOrFoe?! Joe Sun, Xiaoqin Wei &co show @science.org that lung macrophage peroxisomes instruct repair programs after virus infections favoring AT2 cell renewal & recovery! IFNgamma drives pexophagy, increasing mitochondrial ROS & activating inflammasomes driving KRT8 cells & fibrosis!
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Macrophage peroxisomes guide alveolar regeneration and limit SARS-CoV-2 tissue sequelae
Peroxisomes are vital but often overlooked metabolic organelles. We found that excessive interferon signaling remodeled macrophage peroxisomes. This loss of peroxisomes impaired inflammation resolutio...
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Oxenius Lab @laboxenius.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"Fundamental and applied research are both necessary for innovation in science and industry." We're extremely proud to share the news of Annette's appointment as ETH Vice President for Research 🎉
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 01/03/2025
A study in Nature Medicine provides a comprehensive map of the contributions of environment and genetics to mortality and incidence of common age-related diseases, suggesting that the exposome shapes distinct patterns of disease and mortality risk. #Medsky 🧪
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Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality - Nature Medicine
Based on a systematic analysis of environmental exposures associated with aging and mortality in the UK Biobank, the relative contributions of such exposures and genetic risk for mortality and a range of age-related diseases were compared, highlighting the potential beneficial effects of environment-focused interventions.
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Mariana Borsa @nanaborsa.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Despite facing up to -20°C, spent fantastic days in my first Keystone²: exciting immunometabolism discussions and (re-)encounters with brilliant and generous leaders of the field. Happy to be part of this community #KSImmunometab25
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Sarah Ross @sarahhross.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
ICYMI by First Release - now officially in print @science.org Specific combinations of nutrients and metabolic enzymes determine T cell differentiation via loci-specific histone acetylations. buff.ly/4gvqKTz From Shixin Ma, Sue Kaech @tcellogic.bsky.social et al. #immunometabolism
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Mariana Borsa @nanaborsa.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Just climbed some steps to warm up for the #KSMitochondria25 in Taipei. First time in Asia, first time I will talk in a @keystonesymposia.bsky.social, all very exciting!
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Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
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Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories
A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
After we reach advanced age, around 80, the propensity to develop cancer is markedly reduced. A discovery reported at Nature today about aged stem cells and iron insufficiency may help explain this advantage www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Jeff Mold @jeffmold.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Immune cells change in proportions with age - naive go down, effector go up. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A panoramic view of cell population dynamics in mammalian aging
To elucidate aging-associated cellular population dynamics, we present PanSci, a single-cell transcriptome atlas profiling over 20 million cells from 623 mouse tissues across different life stages, se...
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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/
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.
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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
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Mariana Borsa @nanaborsa.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Definitely not a straightforward path, but it is happening: I am officially an Assistant Professor-to-be! 🎉 I am thrilled to announce that I was awarded a @snsf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant and I will start my lab next year. Very grateful to all those that supported me over the last years! 🫶 (1/4)
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Johannes Pilic @johannes-pilic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
How do #mitochondria decide when to divide or fuse? I’ve always thought mtDNA played a key role in this process, so I was very surprised by this finding: The loss of mtDNA does not affect mitochondrial fission and fusion rates. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
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Significantly reduced, but balanced, rates of mitochondrial fission and fusion are sufficient to maintain the integrity of yeast mitochondrial DNA | Molecular Biology of the Cell
Mitochondria exist as dynamic tubular networks and the morphology of these networks impacts organelle function and cell health. Mitochondrial morphology is maintained in part by the opposing activitie...
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yEFIS @yefis-immunology.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We’re here 🦋 ✨ and excited to build the #yEFIS network for young European #immunologists on Bluesky! #ImmunoSky Follow us to stay updated on all our news and latest activities.
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Mariana Borsa @nanaborsa.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Terrific scientist starting as a PI at our alma mater @ethzurich.bsky.social. Stay tuned!
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Women in Mitochondria @mitowomen.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
We are excited to expand our platform to Bluesky! Follow @mitowomen.bsky.social for highlights on research performed by women in mitochondrial research. Check out our website for a list of outstanding women in mito research (to invite speakers, recruit students/postdocs, find collaborators, etc)
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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
If you’re making a starter pack, take a quick look at its demographics. Worth a bit of consideration!
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Mariana Borsa @nanaborsa.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Definitely not a straightforward path, but it is happening: I am officially an Assistant Professor-to-be! 🎉 I am thrilled to announce that I was awarded a @snsf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant and I will start my lab next year. Very grateful to all those that supported me over the last years! 🫶 (1/4)
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Mariana Borsa @nanaborsa.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
As someone who truly missed the #science blue bird, it feels great to again tweet in a BlueSky! For those that are new here, I am a #Tcell aficionada trying to understand how diversity is imprinted by events such as #organelle inheritance. So I am slowly trying to become a cell biologist as well! 🙃
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