Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouHelena Cocheme @cochemelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026✨Excited to share our latest paper in Aging Cell!✨ "Direct Pharmacological Activation of AMPK Extends Lifespan in Yeast, Worms and Flies" Thanks to all the collaborators who made this multi-organism study possible! 💊🪱🪰🐁⏳ #TeamScience #Drosophila #C.elegans #S.pombe #Ageing doi.org/10.1111/acel... 13111
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouLorraine Reese @lorraine-reese.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Super 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 032
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I’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...fundraise.cancerresearchuk.orgParaskevi's Giving PageThanks 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... 100
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Extremely 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 🎉 020
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouHelena 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 151
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Don’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!) ❤️ 020
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouFaculty of Health and Life Sciences @livunihls.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Springboard 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 021
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Delighted 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/427CuXcbit.lyAcademy of Medical Sciences backs 55 early career researchers with £6.7m for discovery-driven health research 070
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouSFRR-E_ ECRs @sfrre-ecr.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Meet 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 021
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouThe 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... 023
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouIan 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!tinyurl.com(BBSRC NWD CASE) Unravelling the origins, mechanisms and implications of species differences in cellular stress response pathway capacities at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.comPhD 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... 011
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 11/11/2025🌍🌎🌏Open to students worldwide! I m super excited for this project 🎉 054
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Congratulations Colin!!! ❤️🎉 Can’t wait to see the super cool data will you generate! 010
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouKeenan Lab @keenanlab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025This 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...nature.comGlobal analysis of translocon remodeling during protein synthesis at the ER - Nature Structural & Molecular BiologyThe 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 ... 1166
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouEMBO @embo.org · 07/10/2025Want to apply for an EMBO Postdoctoral #Fellowship? 🧪 Here are tips from the EMBO Fellowship Committee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7c... #LifeSciences #grant #fundingyoutube.comHow to apply for an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship: Tips from the CommitteeYouTube video by EMBO - excellence in life sciences 074
Reposted by Paraskevi Kritsiligkouqiangguo.bsky.social @qiangguo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025What'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/...science.orgTranslation landscape of stress granulesCryo–electron tomography visualizes stress granules in situ, revealing their spatial interplay with translation machinery. 0115
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouJohn 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/ 622497
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouJames Nathan @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Happy 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.science.orgMapping the genetic landscape of iron metabolism uncovers the SETD2 methyltransferase as a modulator of iron fluxGenetic screens using endogenous reporters map key modulators of cellular iron, including the transcriptional regulator SETD2. 0122
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouMilo B. Fasken, Ph.D. @milofasken.bsky.social · 21/09/2025www.cell.com/molecular-ce...cell.comRapid remodeling of NTP levels enables immediate translational adaptation to energy stress in yeastBexley 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... 0174
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 04/09/2025sciencedirect.comMetabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis reduces hepatic H2S-producing enzymes altering persulfidome compositionMetabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH) is a progressive disease driven by obesity-related hepatic inflammation and oxidative stress. … 021
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouDr Zeinab Rekad 🔬🧬🧪 @zeinabrekad.bsky.social · 27/07/2025#RNAsky 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 011
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 25/07/2025On 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 041
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouJames Nathan @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Delighted 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.rdcu.beLipoyl deglutarylation by ABHD11 regulates mitochondrial and T cell metabolismNature 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... 1226
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 13/07/2025www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgROS transfer at peroxisome-mitochondria contact regulates mitochondrial redoxMaintenance 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... 040
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouAlexey Amunts @amunts.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Our 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... 14410
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouHelena 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...doi.orgEnhancing autophagy by redox regulation extends lifespan in Drosophila - Nature CommunicationsRedox 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 ... 89037
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouRobert E. Campbell @campbell-lab.bsky.social · 19/04/2025New 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...biorxiv.orgHigh-performance genetically-encoded green and red fluorescent biosensors for pyruvatePyruvate 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... 49236
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouMarko Kaksonen @kaksonen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025How 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... 26233
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouWill Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 24/06/20251/27 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.... 14357145
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouGuillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Are 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 !! 07087
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouFaculty of Health and Life Sciences @livunihls.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Congratulations 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 043
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Spent 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 🥹 020
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Thanks Ian! Glad you made it to the talk 🙂 010
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 07/06/2025I am extremely honoured to have received the 2025 Catherine Pasquier Award from SFRR-E in recognition for Extraordinary Scientific Achievements and Great Future Promise! 🥹 Inspired to follow so many past awardees that are now leaders in the field. Truly thankful for the support. ❤️ 150
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Had 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 🎉 150
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouAvilien Dard @avdar66.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Outstanding 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 0122
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouIan Copple @iancopple.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Liverpool'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 152
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouBede Portz @ysptsps.bsky.social · 04/06/2025www.nature.com/articles/s41... From Denis Hnisz labnature.comProbing condensate microenvironments with a micropeptide killswitch - NatureTargeting a non-natural micropeptide ‘killswitch’ to several biomolecular condensates altered condensate compositions and revealed condensate functions in human cells 1134
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Attending the Careers beyond Gender session this morning! Hozumi Motohashi is an inspiration to us all! ❤️ 010
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 03/06/2025In 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! 030
Reposted by Paraskevi Kritsiligkouplasmidsaurus @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social · 02/06/2025🧫 Rise and shine—it’s the Yeastosaurus! 0163
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouRob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 02/06/2025The 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...jobrxiv.orgCall for Group leaders in Innovative BiologyPost a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv! 12223
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Yesterday 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! 😂 030
Paraskevi Kritsiligkou @parikki.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Had 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! 020
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouRobert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025www.cnn.com/2025/05/24/c...cnn.comA fungus that can ‘eat you from the inside out’ could spread as the world heats up | CNNInfection-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. 042
Reposted by Paraskevi KritsiligkouHiroyuki Uechi @hiro-cg5445.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Some 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...nature.comSmall-molecule dissolution of stress granules by redox modulation benefits ALS models - Nature Chemical BiologyUechi 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... 23011