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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou

@parikki.bsky.social
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Tenure Track Fellow at the University of Liverpool. In my lab we study #redox heterogeneity in intracellular nanodomains, gene expression regulation and metabolism in yeast and cancer models. www.kritsiligkou.com

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Lorraine Reese @lorraine-reese.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Super earlybird discount ends Sunday for Redox - The Good, The Bad and The Unexpected! Join @cochemelab.bsky.social, @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social, @hammond-lab.bsky.social, @parikki.bsky.social, @sharpe-lab.bsky.social, @tennantlab.bsky.social, @ulrichlab.bsky.social and many more in Cambridge in Nov
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I’m going to be taking on 100 Squats a Day in August help raise money for Cancer Research UK. Please show your support and help fund life-saving cancer research by donating to my page. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/paraske...
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Thanks for visiting my fundraising page. I’m going to be taking on 100 Squats a Day in August help raise money for Cancer Research UK. Please show your support and help fund life-saving cancer researc...
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Extremely honoured to have received the 2026 Alan Beeston Early Career Researcher of the Year @liverpooluni.bsky.social staff award! 🥹 Many thanks to the people that nominated me and the assessors for selecting me 🎉
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Helena Cocheme @cochemelab.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
📣 Confirmed speakers: • Rebecca Charles • Ester Hammond @hammond-lab.bsky.social • Guy Hanke • Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social • Hiran Prag • Hayley Sharpe @sharpe-lab.bsky.social • Daniel Tennant @tennantlab.bsky.social • David Thomas • Kathrin Ulrich @ulrichlab.bsky.social
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Don’t miss this exciting meeting! I am looking forward to presenting some of our newest data in Cambridge later this year, thankful for the invite! 🎉🎉 Bonus: I get to celebrate my birthday with my redox community (again!) ❤️
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Faculty of Health and Life Sciences @livunihls.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Springboard success! Congratulations to Dr Pari Kritsiligkou (@parikki.bsky.social) and Dr Hayley Lavender, both recipients of prestigious Springboard Awards by the Academy of Medical Sciences. 🔗 bit.ly/4swbfk9 #TeamLivUni
A navy blue social card that reads 'Academy of Medical Sciences backs early career researchers' in white text. Pictured from left to right is Dr Paraskevi (Pari) Kritsiligkou and Dr Hayley Lavender.
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Delighted and honoured to receive the @acmedsci.bsky.social springboard award this year to develop my research! 🥹 I am thankful to all mentors and colleagues, and I am looking forward to expanding my research team! A position will be available soon 🎉 #springboard26 bit.ly/427CuXc
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Academy of Medical Sciences backs 55 early career researchers with £6.7m for discovery-driven health research
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SFRR-E_ ECRs @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Meet the speakers, SFRR-E ECR Webinar: Computational Redox Biology! 🗓 Tue 13 Jan 2026 | 🕒 15:00 CET | 📲 Zoom Discover cutting-edge computational insights into redox biology with Cameron Schmidt & Karen Guerrero Vazquez. us06web.zoom.us/j/8646973154... Passcode: 433382
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The MRC Centre for Medical Mycology @mrccmm.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🌍New Funding Alert! Apply for the CMM International Fund: up to £30k over 2 years for globally collaborative medical mycology research. FAPESP-funded PhD & Postdoctoral opportunities available for partnerships with researchers in São Paulo State, Brazil 🔗 www.exeter.ac.uk/research/med...
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Ian Copple @iancopple.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
📢 Fully funded PhD opportunity in my group! Project title: Unravelling the origins, mechanisms and implications of species differences in cellular stress response pathway capacities. Application deadline: 7 December 2025. Details/apply: tinyurl.com/2jcp9jfz Questions: Get in touch!
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(BBSRC NWD CASE) Unravelling the origins, mechanisms and implications of species differences in cellular stress response pathway capacities at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (BBSRC NWD CASE) Unravelling the origins, mechanisms and implications of species differences in cellular stress response pathway capacities at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD...
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🌍🌎🌏Open to students worldwide! I m super excited for this project 🎉
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Congratulations Colin!!! ❤️🎉 Can’t wait to see the super cool data will you generate!
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Keenan Lab @keenanlab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This was a fun new collaboration using selective ribosome profiling to understand how the subunit composition of the ER translocon is tailored by the nascent chain. Congratulations to everyone involved! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global analysis of translocon remodeling during protein synthesis at the ER - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
The authors use selective ribosome profiling to define how and when factors for N-glycosylation and membrane insertion engage and disengage from the core Sec61 translocation channel during biogenesis ...
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EMBO @embo.org · 07/10/2025
Want to apply for an EMBO Postdoctoral #Fellowship? 🧪 Here are tips from the EMBO Fellowship Committee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7c... #LifeSciences #grant #funding
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How to apply for an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship: Tips from the Committee
YouTube video by EMBO - excellence in life sciences
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qiangguo.bsky.social @qiangguo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
What's the role of stress granules in translation? Here we provide a clue: we characterized the distribution of ribosomal complexes within SGs and reproduced this landscape with a phase-field model, pointing to a new regulatory mechanism. #TEAMTOMO www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Translation landscape of stress granules
Cryo–electron tomography visualizes stress granules in situ, revealing their spatial interplay with translation machinery.
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John Ngo @johntngo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🚀 Our new paper is out @natmethods.nature.com! Kuffer & Marzilli engineered conditionally stable MS2 & PP7 coat proteins (dMCP & dPCP) that degrade unless bound to RNA, enabling ultra–low-background, single-mRNA imaging in live cells. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬 www.addgene.org/John_Ngo/
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James Nathan @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Happy to share latest work from the lab. Led by talented first author @awmartinelli.bsky.social. Mapping the genetic landscape of iron metabolism uncovers the SETD2 methyltransferase as a modulator of iron flux | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congratulations to all the team.
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Mapping the genetic landscape of iron metabolism uncovers the SETD2 methyltransferase as a modulator of iron flux
Genetic screens using endogenous reporters map key modulators of cellular iron, including the transcriptional regulator SETD2.
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Milo B. Fasken, Ph.D. @milofasken.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Rapid remodeling of NTP levels enables immediate translational adaptation to energy stress in yeast
Bexley et al. report that rapid metabolic shifts mediate immediate, protective changes in RNA metabolism following energy depletion. In yeast, protein production is regulated by tuning enzymatic const...
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis reduces hepatic H2S-producing enzymes altering persulfidome composition
Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH) is a progressive disease driven by obesity-related hepatic inflammation and oxidative stress. …
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Dr Zeinab Rekad 🔬🧬🧪 @zeinabrekad.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
#RNAsky 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
On my way back from a truly brilliant yeast meeting! With more than 500 participants, so much cool science and loads of fruitful discussions, this week was remarkable! #yeast2025
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I am in Paris this week for #yeast2025!
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James Nathan @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Delighted to share our latest work on ABHD11 as a novel deglutarylating enzyme, and its role in T cell metabolism @natchembio.nature.com rdcu.be/ewiYZ. Many congratulations to co-first authors Guine Grice, Eleanor Minogue and @hudsonwilco.bsky.social! Great team effort with Randall Johnson's lab.
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Lipoyl deglutarylation by ABHD11 regulates mitochondrial and T cell metabolism
Nature Chemical Biology - Glutarate rewires cell metabolism through conjugation to proteins or fatty acids, but how glutarylation is regulated is unclear. ABHD11 was identified as a...
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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ROS transfer at peroxisome-mitochondria contact regulates mitochondrial redox
Maintenance of mitochondrial redox homeostasis is of fundamental importance to cellular health. Mitochondria harbor a host of intrinsic antioxidant defenses, but the contribution of extrinsic, nonmito...
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Alexey Amunts @amunts.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Our new preprint: how photoprotection is spatially coordinated with energy metabolism. Photosystem I is major source of radicals. We report EM structure of PSI in complex with superoxide dismutase SOD: direct link between energy conversion & oxidative stress defence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Helena Cocheme @cochemelab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🎉Excited to share our latest paper, published in Nature Communications!🎉 "Enhancing autophagy by redox regulation extends lifespan in Drosophila" #redox #metabolism #ageing #Drosophila @natcomms.nature.com @mrc-lms.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Enhancing autophagy by redox regulation extends lifespan in Drosophila - Nature Communications
Redox signalling is emerging as an important regulator of metabolism and physiology, which is dysregulated in ageing and disease. Here, the authors show that redox regulation of a key redox sensitive ...
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Robert E. Campbell @campbell-lab.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
New tools! GreenPy and ApplePy are fluorescent biosensors for pyruvate with huge responses (20–40x in vitro) and a range of affinities (10s of μM to mM). These should be game changers for imaging of metabolism! Great work by Shosei Imai @sikmys.bsky.social and team 👏. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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High-performance genetically-encoded green and red fluorescent biosensors for pyruvate
Pyruvate is the end-product of glycolysis and a central metabolite involved in many biochemical pathways. However, a lack of high-performance (i.e., Δ F / F > 10) single fluorescent protein (FP)-base...
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Marko Kaksonen @kaksonen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
How do cells switch on the actin assembly at endocytic sites? How can this on-switch evolve? Check out our new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Localization of WDS proteins and fimbrin in three fungal species.
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬 www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Are you looking for a postdoc? I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !! Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!
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Faculty of Health and Life Sciences @livunihls.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Congratulations to Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki and Dr Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social who won the Leopold Flohé Redox Pioneer Young Investigator Award and Catherine Pasquier Award respectively at the 2025 Society for Free Radical Research International meeting ▶️ bit.ly/4ebZ9XN
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Spent the day listening to some amazing talks from first and second year PhD students in our Biochemistry, Cell and Systems Biology Department! I loved how confident and knowledgeable our students are! Can’t wait for my students to give their talks next year 🥹
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Had a great time at the SFRR-I meeting! I listened to some exciting new science, spent time with my friends that live far away and met my fellow @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social in person!❤️ We successfully organised networking events and a sunrise seminar and it is clear we are building a great community 🎉
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Avilien Dard @avdar66.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Outstanding talk by @parikki.bsky.social , recipient of the CATHERINE PASQUIER AWARD LECTURE at SFFR-I Biennial Meeting in Galway @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Are ROS generated in nanodomains / condensates in cells? Want to know more, please read her paper lnkd.in/dq_6Rnaw @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social
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Ian Copple @iancopple.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Liverpool's @parikki.bsky.social giving the Catherine Pasquier Award lecture at the SFRRI Biennial Meeting in Galway. Fantastic talk 👏🏻 @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social
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Bede Portz @ysptsps.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... From Denis Hnisz lab
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Probing condensate microenvironments with a micropeptide killswitch - Nature
Targeting a non-natural micropeptide ‘killswitch’ to several biomolecular condensates altered condensate compositions and revealed condensate functions in human cells
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Attending the Careers beyond Gender session this morning! Hozumi Motohashi is an inspiration to us all! ❤️
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
In Galway for the SFRR-I meeting!With >400 delegates, this week is gonna be epic! If you are an ECR, don’t miss out on the activities the @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social committee is organising! Today join us at 18:30 for a fun meet the professor session and at 19:30 for our annual ECR networking event!
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plasmidsaurus @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🧫 Rise and shine—it’s the Yeastosaurus!
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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The Montpellier Institute of Molecular Genetics is recruiting group leaders (open rank). IGMM studies fundamental mechanisms underlying cellular processes and their links to human pathologies. Montpellier 🇨🇵 is an absolutely wonderful place to live. Deadline 31st October. jobrxiv.org/job/montpell...
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Call for Group leaders in Innovative Biology
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Yesterday I had the pleasure to examine a PhD thesis! It was a great experience, because the student was awesome and I learned so much from the external examiner on how to go about it! Can’t wait for the next one! 😂
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Had a fantastic day being at the University of Manchester today, giving a talk at the Protein and RNA fate seminar series! Very thankful for the invite and the opportunity to share some super new, super cool data from my lab!
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Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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A fungus that can ‘eat you from the inside out’ could spread as the world heats up | CNN
Infection-causing fungi responsible for millions of deaths a year will spread significantly to new regions as the planet heats up, new research predicts —and the world is not prepared.
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Hiroyuki Uechi @hiro-cg5445.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Some small molecules modulate protein condensation in cells, but how? Our latest work shows a possible mechanism of action of the small molecule lipoamide. This molecule prevents condensation of stress granules whose components are found as protein aggregates in ALS. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Small-molecule dissolution of stress granules by redox modulation benefits ALS models - Nature Chemical Biology
Uechi et al. found that a small-molecule lipoamide dissolves stress granules (SGs) by targeting SFPQ, a redox-sensitive disordered SG protein, alleviating pathological phenotypes caused by amyotrophic...
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 12/05/2025
💫NEW: Wei et al. report that MBD2 forms condensates through #PhaseSeparation in diverse cancers where it assembles the NuRD complex. MBD2 condensates are redox-sensitive and mediate transcriptional repression in #cancer cells. 👉https://rdcu.be/elKdU go.nature.com/4iW4nrd
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Targeting redox-sensitive MBD2–NuRD condensate in cancer cells - Nature Cell Biology
Wei et al. report that MBD2 forms condensates through phase separation in diverse cancers where it assembles the NuRD complex. MBD2 condensates are redox-sensitive and mediate transcriptional repressi...
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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Convergent evolution of "smelling like rotting meat" is mediated by a 3 amino-acid chance in a conserved enzymes, just out @science.org 🔽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Convergent acquisition of disulfide-forming enzymes in malodorous flowers
Identifying the metabolic and genetic changes that confer evolutionary novelty is essential for understanding the factors facilitating or constraining the occurrence of traits. We show that dimethyl d...
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
New structural insights into SBPase from #Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. This study reveals how #redox state influences the enzyme’s oligomeric form and offers clues to its regulation in the Calvin cycle. buff.ly/qfy40Ii
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Henne lab @hennelab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Proud present our latest work led by Blessy Paul, now in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. Here, we characterize an ER-localized antioxidant enzyme in humans and Drosophila that acts as a lipid quality control factor to suppress ER lipid oxidation. www.cell.com/developmenta...
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Paraoxonase-like APMAP maintains endoplasmic-reticulum-associated lipid and lipoprotein homeostasis
Here, Paul et al. show that APMAP is an ER-localized paraoxonase-like enzyme that suppresses lipid oxidation and redox stress at the ER network. APMAP loss leads to ER stress, redox disruption, phosph...
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Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Join us tomorrow online! Amal is such a passionate speaker and determined scientist!
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Angelika Harbauer @harbauerlab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Join us in Engelberg, Switzerland, for an exciting #EMBO workshop on #mitochondria in the nervous system #EMBOmitoNervousSys! Great speaker line up and opportunities for short talks from early career scientists. Submit your abstract until May 30st! @jcourchet.bsky.social @tatjanakleele.bsky.social
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