Lorena Oli

I see only superstars in this picture ❤️ happy girls in science day 😚

Self-renewal of neuronal mitochondria through asymmetric division - preLights Neurons contain “hotspots” for mitochondrial biogenesis at distal branch points

Check out my first @prelights.bsky.social article, based on some great work done by Dr. Tejashree Waingankar & @samlewis.bsky.social at UC Berkeley 🔬🧬🧠

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The moment to celebrate a paper is when it’s shared with the world, not when it passes the arbitrary hurdle of “acceptance”

Schwarz lab @bostonchildrens.bsky.social identify a mechanism coupling mitochondrial movement to energy demand. When energy levels are low, the energy-sensing kinase AMPK phosphorylates the motor/adaptor protein TRAK1, arresting #mitochondria via the #actin #cytoskeleton. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

It’s not so much that Trump & co don’t think slavery was important, they want to remove this history precisely *because* of how important it was. They don’t want people to learn about slavery because then people would understand how it continues to shape the landscape of inequality in America today.

Research with fruit flies could unlock riddle of neurodegenerative disorders A study by University of Manchester scientists using fruit flies as model has identified a mechanism which can explain aspects of neurodegeneration which have baffled scientists for decades.Scientists...

Research with fruit flies could unlock riddle of neurodegenerative disorders www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r... by @manchester.ac.uk

#Alzheimers #dementia #Parkinsons #MND #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

Loss and gain of motor protein function cause microtubule bundle damage in Drosophila axons Liew et al. show that neurodegeneration-linked mutations of different transport motor classes cause damage to axonal microtubule bundles in the form of microtubule-curling. Transport loss of mitochond...

Loss & gain of motor protein function cause microtubule bundle damage in 🪰 axons: @currentbiology.bsky.social Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... @poppi62.bsky.social

My quote of the day

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anne Frank

This is soooo annoying, I don't understand why people wouldn't just repeat the protocol (and cite it) 🫠🫠

Mitochondrial hitch-hiking of Mapt mRNA maintains Tau levels in axons Hitch-hiking of transcripts on organelles, including mitochondria, has emerged as a common pathway to transport mRNAs into the axon to enable their local translation. However, the extent of mitochondr...

New preprint from my lab!!!
We took advantage of the MitoTag mouse line to study what mRNAs associate with mitochondria in axons in vivo, and we were in for a surprise! Other than our favorite Pink1, mainly cytoskeletal mRNAs hitch a ride and pave the way for axon growth. shorturl.at/rYe1U

Ohhh, that sounds interesting!

Sorry but I don't think women are the ones who should be taking the course on "emotional intelligence" 😅😅

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Local mitochondrial physiology defined by mtDNA quality guides purifying selection Author summary Mitochondria are essential organelles in our cells that convert nutrients into usable cellular energy. They contain their own DNA, and mutations in this DNA can compromise mitochondrial...

How do cells assess mtDNA quality?

Local ATP and membrane-potential gradients reflect mtDNA integrity and drive intracellular purifying selection.

We introduce FAST, a scalable mtDNA QC assay in S. cerevisiae.

Great collaboration with the Schmoller Lab.

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Super cool! 🤩

Thank you for explaining this in such a digestible way!

US-Vizepräsident JD Vance sieht vor, dass die ICE-Mitarbeiter von "Tür zu Tür" gehen sollen, um die Dokumente der Menschen zu prüfen.

Gleichzeitig genießen sie laut ihm "voll Immunität".

An was erinnert euch das?

Very cool work, Ryosuke!

There is noooo way 💀💀💀

Mitochondrial transfer from glia to neurons protects against peripheral neuropathy - Nature Mitochondria that are transported from satellite glial cells in dorsal root ganglia to peripheral sensory neurons through tunneling nanotube-like structures provide protection against peripheral neuro...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Medina, Chang et al. of the @nanigrotjahn.bsky.social lab introduce a new method based on the Surface Morphometrics pipeline to measure global and local thicknesses of organellar #membranes from cellular cryo-electron tomography data. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#CryoET

Hey, science community (whoever is here). Can you please help me amplify this message? Postdoc position available in Düsseldorf!

who needs a CV when you have this lovely statement from when you were in 3rd grade 🥹🥹
thanks Cyrus

Pollutant Exposure Shapes Mitochondrial Bioenergetics in a Wild Seabird Laboratory studies show that mercury (Hg) and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) can impair mitochondrial bioenergetics, which is a vital process for cellular energy production. However, their...

Excited to share our new paper! 🎉
we explored foraging behavior, contaminant exposure ( #Hg & #PFAS), and mitochondrial bioenergetics, revealing how #pollution can affect cellular energy in an apex marine predator @stefi-casagrande.bsky.social
#mitochondria

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All research is exploratory if you’re confused enough

that sounds like a challenge 😎

Self-renewal of neuronal mitochondria through asymmetric division Mitochondrial ATP production is essential for life. Mitochondrial function depends on the spatio-temporal coordination of nuclear and mitochondrial genome expression, yet how this coordination occurs ...

⚡️Mitochondria make ATP, the energy that powers life. But in neurons, with axons up to a meter long, how do these tiny power plants stay functional in the right places? We went looking. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is suuuuper cool! Congratulations to the authors!