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Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria Visiting Professor, Imperial College London Structure/function of molecular machines and membrane proteins cryoEM Bioenergetics Fellow of Royal Society and EMBO

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Interesting shapes and sizes of respiratory complexes

23.07.2025 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.17.665390v1

Happy to share new preprint from our collaboration with Peter Nixon group from Imperial College. New insights into Photosystem II assembly/disassembly.

t.co/Qac81hZ9kp

20.07.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Metformin targets mitochondrial complex I to lower blood glucose levels Acute oral metformin administration lowers blood glucose levels by targeting mitochondrial complex I.

Authors use an elegant transgenic model to demonstrate that acute oral administration of metformin targets mitochondrial complex I to lower blood glucose.

A crucial contribution to the debate about the mechanisms of action of #metformin.

#metabolism #glucose

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

05.01.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Árbol del Tule, Montezuma cypress near Oaxaca in Mexico is amazing. It is the biggest tree in the world by trunk width (14 m diameter). How just a few green needles maintain this tree over 2000 years is a mystery to me.

05.01.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Virtual Student Open Day 2024 Each year, the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) opens its doors to give prospective PhD and internship candidates an insight into what it is like to study and do research at the inst...

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18.11.2024 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great, thanks!

18.11.2024 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, I heard there is cryo-EM starter pack here - how do I join? Many thanks!

18.11.2024 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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