Juan Zapata-Muñoz

🚀 The WIA Communications Committee is looking for new volunteers!

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Protein Domain Designer tool for the generation of publication-ready protein domain diagrams

New week, new tool: Find our Protein Domain Designer tool to generate publication-ready protein domain diagrams here: domaindesigner.farnunglab.com

The future is visiting again! We are seeking applicants for the 7th season of MITOchats. Deadline for submission is October 17th. Visit www.mitotalks.org for details or submit your application at forms.gle/5D6vWE92yYCi...

📣 28/9 Concentraciones en Madrid, Barcelona y Valencia. 🗣️ La ciencia no se firma, se financia.

😡 No queremos pactos vacíos, exigimos hechos.

#CumplidYaLoPactado

📃 Pacto completo aquí fji.precarios.org/un-nuevo-pac...

Exciting chance to pursue your PhD in Madrid! 🍀🔬🧪

Position available! Team @mito911.bsky.social needs a new scientific program manager to take over from legendary super-PM @doroteaartscience.bsky.social, who is moving on to bigger things. This is a Berkeley-based position. Apply at aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05103.

Celebrating Postdoc Research – National Postdoc Appreciation Week 2025!

#PostdocAppreciationWeek #PostdocResearch #CIMR #MBU #Cambridge #ResearchSeminar #ScienceCommunication #CambridgeUniversity

Don’t Miss the Spanish Society of Cell Biology (SEBC) Meeting 2025!
📍 Santiago de Compostela
📅 October 21–24, 2025

👉 Register now at sebc2025.org to:

Secure your discounted registration

Apply for fellowships covering the registration fee (available for junior researchers!)

Very exciting opportunity here to work with former member of our group and rising star @andrea-loreto.bsky.social Highly recommended!

Congratulations!!!

Amazing 🍀

Lysosomal membrane homeostasis and its importance in physiology and disease Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 04 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00873-wLysosomes degrade cellular components, and their membrane is an important signalling hub. Recent insights into the mechanisms that maintain lysosomal membrane homeostasis — including the interplay between membrane damage, repair, lysophagy and lysosome biogenesis — highlight their importance in physiology, in disease and during ageing.

New Online! Lysosomal membrane homeostasis and its importance in physiology and disease

Structure of the ULK1C core.

CRN Team Hurley determined the cryo-electron microscopy structure of the human ULK1C core at amino-acid-level resolution. They examined the ULK1C core in complex with another autophagy core complex, the class III PI3KC3-C1.

🔗 Read the full #publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41594-025-01557-x

Join us! Research Technician position available with Dario Alessi www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/careers/recr...

Special Issue: Cell Biology of Mitochondria - MitoWorld The special issue of Journal of Cell Science (JCS) on the “Cell Biology of Mitochondria” looks to be one of the most comprehensive open series of papers, opinions, perspectives, interviews, reviews an...

A must-read for anyone in mitochondria research!

Journal of Cell Science has released a Special Issue on the Cell Biology of Mitochondria - articles, reviews, and expert insights covering dynamics, disease, and more!

View our summary mitoworld.org/special-issu...

Collaboration Expands Research Tool to Help Crack the Code on Parkinson’s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases A new view of Parkinson’s disease

Parkinson’s disease is the fastest growing neurodegenerative condition.

Now researchers have a powerful new tool, thanks to a collaboration with @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org. Parkinson’s data is now available on the free and open ABC Atlas.

🧠 alleninstitute.org/news/a-new-v...

Your sleep pressure is powered by your mitochondria! Sleep, energy, and ageing are all connected through mitochondrial bioenergetics in neurons. Brilliant work from Gero Miesenböck’s lab, just out in Nature @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Inhibiting enzyme could halt cell death in Parkinson’s disease, study finds Stanford Medicine-led research in mice indicates that inhibiting the LRRK2 enzyme could stabilize patients with a type of Parkinson’s disease.

med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Looking forward to attending this fantastic meeting! 🔥

#CIBpapers

A team from @cib-csic.bsky.social discovered that deferiprone, used to eliminate excess iron in the body, protects retinal #photoreceptor cells from degeneration. 

🔗https://f.mtr.cool/lsxdqioyig

Deferiprone protects against photoreceptor degeneration by inhibiting parthanatos - Cell Death & Disease Cell Death & Disease - Deferiprone protects against photoreceptor degeneration by inhibiting parthanatos

🚨New paper alert! 🚨

🎓Proud to share this work as part of my PhD journey at Boya's Lab!

🧠We show that iron chelation protects against MNU-induced photoreceptor degeneration by inhibiting parthanatos

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

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year
NASA cut by 24%
NIH cut by 40%
EPA cut by 55%
NSF cut by 56%
Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Do you LOVE organelles??
Well I am THRILLED to announce that Nellie has been published in @naturemethods.bsky.social!

Nellie a fully automated pipeline for organelle segmentation, tracking, and hierarchical feature extraction in 2D, 3D, timelapse, multichannel live-cell microscopy

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Cartel informando sobre el próximo congreso de SEFAGIA (del 29 al 31 de octubre, en Miraflores de la Sierra), con una fotografía del lugar donde se celebrará: La Cristalera. Image announcing the next SEFAGIA meeting (29-31 October, Miraflores de la Sierra), with a picture showing La Cristalera, the building where the meeting will take place.

📢📅 ¡Reservad las fechas!

El próximo congreso de SEFAGIA será en Miraflores de la Sierra (29-31 de octubre, Madrid).

Volviendo a nuestros orígenes…

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📢📅 Save the date!

Next SEFAGIA meeting will take place at Miraflores de la Sierra (29-31 October, Madrid).

Back to where it all began…

How and when to measure mitochondrial inner membrane potentials The scientific literature on mitochondria has increased significantly over the years due to findings that these organelles have widespread roles in the onset and progression of pathological conditions such as metabolic disorders, neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, inflammation, and cancer. Researchers have extensively explored how mitochondrial properties and functions are modified in different models, often using fluorescent inner mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) probes to assess functional mitochondrial aspects such as protonmotive force and oxidative phosphorylation.

Mitochondria vibes only! Want to measure the inner membrane potential but unsure how or when? This review breaks it down! From protocols to pitfalls, get the tools you need to decode cellular powerhouses. ow.ly/Ejj050UsK7Y

Why Bax detection in >1400 publications might be flawed - Cell Death & Disease Cell Death & Disease - Why Bax detection in >1400 publications might be flawed

These studies are so important. Well done to the authors and the journal for publishing it. This certainly applies to so many antibodies. Companies selling antibodies should do and provide the right controls before commercialisation.

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

Mitochondria consist of networks of cylindrical tubes, right? Not necessarily! - in our new preprint, @gavsturm.bsky.social investigates how mitochondria transiently adopt a beads-on-a-string morphology

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

Autophagy UK Network Meeting 2023 Visit the post for more.

autophagyuk389582434.wordpress.com

Postdoctoral position in the group of Dr. Antonio Martínez Ruiz in Madrid

Do you want to work as a #postdoc in our group in a Hospital Research Institute in Madrid?🏥🔬

Interested in how #mitochondria and #redox signalling/stress can influence #stroke outcome and #inflammation?🧠💊

Apply up to 26 December at n9.cl/iunkw (ref 72/2024)
Full call n9.cl/gijjd

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