Joan Blanco-Fernandez

Check ⬇️ the latest paper from the @jourdainlab.bsky.social ab on glutamine addiction!

Congratulation to @miriamlisci.bsky.social and all co-authors for the amazing work🥳

Functional nutrient-genetic profiling reveals biotin and FBXW7 are essential to bypass glutamine addiction Lisci et al. present a unified model revealing how cells escape glutamine addiction, a metabolic vulnerability of several cancers. Combining systematic genetic and nutrient screens, they show that bio...

Our story on #FBXW7 and #biotin in #glutamine_addiction is now peer-reviewed and published in Molecular Cell! Heroic work led by the very first postdoc of the lab @miriamlisci.bsky.social. Have a look!

www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Celebrating the New Year in style! Best wishes from the Jourdain Lab 🥌🫕🇨🇭

Stoked to share TWO preprints on mitochondrial pearling! 🎉
We uncover how spontaneous #mitochondria pearling drives #mtDNA nucleoid distribution (doi.org/10.1101/2024...), and
@gavsturm.bsky.social
et al. dissect the biophysics behind it (doi.org/10.1101/2024...). Details below! 🔬🧵🧪

Stressed mitochondrial RNA granules from our recent work on the cover of PNAS!

A photo by E. Recazens illustrating our new story led by M. Foged on the cytosolic control of mitochondrial RNA processing and innate immunity by #N6AMT1.

#mitochondria #dsRNA

Hi BlueSky! 👋

I’m Joan, a PhD student at @jourdainlab.bsky.social, diving into the world of immunometabolism. My research focuses on mitochondria and how they impact macrophage function.

Between experiments you can find me exploring the mountains🏔️

Stay tuned for some exciting science! 🤓