Nils Burger

Rapid mitochondrial repolarization upon reperfusion after cardiac ischemia - Nature Cardiovascular Research Giles et al. developed a method for noninvasive absorbance measurement of mitochondrial hemes to monitor the mitochondrial membrane potential in the perfused heart. They then applied this approach to ...

Huge congratulations to Abigail Giles whose paper has just come out in Nature Cardiovascular Research - from a great collaboration with Bob Balaban, along with Thomas Krieg and Tish Murphy.

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Excited to share that we are hiring a research assistant for my lab at UTSW in Dallas (www.nils-burger-lab.com). Please share with your mentees.
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We are also looking for motivated, curious, and enthusiastic postdoctoral fellows!

Thanks for sharing Mike!

Sounds great looking forward to it!

I will be hiring on all levels; posts following shortly. Please reach out if you know talented scientists who would like to join me in Dallas.
Stay tuned for job posts and future updates!

The Burger Lab will leverage mass spectrometry and systems-based strategies to study how redox processes and metabolism regulate the proteome and cellular function in health and disease. www.nils-burger-lab.com

Excited to share that I’ve started my lab as an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Thank you to all the mentors, friends, and colleagues who have supported me throughout the years!

We are seeking a life science research professional/technician (medcareers.stanford.edu/job/stanford...) and a postdoctoral fellow(postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...). If you are interested in using mass spec and machine learning to understand protein function and druggability please reach out!

Fantastic story by Haopeng Xiao, the Chouchani Lab, and collaborators. Happy I could be a part of it!

Postdoctoral Researcher (Ph.D./Dr. rer. nat., m/f/div., E13 TV-L, 100%) - Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum (DDZ) Institut für Klinische Biochemie und Pathobiochemie (Direktor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hadi Al-Hasani), Nachwuchsforschungsgruppe Crosstalk (Leiterin: Melanie Mittenbühler, Dr.) (25019)

‼️ We're looking for a postdoc to join our team starting January 1st, 2026! ‼️
Are you curious about how exercise promotes positive changes at the molecular level in obesity and diabetes? If so, consider applying or reach out with any questions.

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Enhancing autophagy by redox regulation extends lifespan in Drosophila - Nature Communications Redox 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 ...

🎉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

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Sleep pressure accumulates in a voltage-gated lipid peroxidation memory - Nature Sleep-inducing neurons in Drosophila rely on Hyperkinetic, the β-subunit of the KV1 channel Shaker, to monitor sleep need by translating lipid peroxidation events into changes in the oxidation state o...

Important new paper in Nature from Gero Miesenböck's lab showing that the accumulation of lipid peroxidation products from mitochondrial ROS production leads in sleep.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Big congrats Alva and Mike!!

Our paper showing that ergothioneine controls mitochondrial function and exercise performance via direct activation of MPST is now published @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone involved!

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Big congrats HaGe, Melanie and Bruce!

Doctoral Student (PhD/Dr. rer. nat., m/f/div., E13 TV-L 65%) - Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum (DDZ) A job-opening of the German Diabetes-Center (DDZ). (24681)

Very happy to share that my research group has launched at the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) in Düsseldorf!

We're looking for a PhD student to study the effects of inter-tissue communication on energy balance and metabolic health. Interested? Get in touch!

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An inherited mtDNA mutation remodels inflammatory cytokine responses in macrophages and in vivo Impaired mitochondrial bioenergetics in macrophages can drive hyperinflammatory cytokine responses[1][1]–[6][2], but whether this may also be caused by inherited mtDNA mutations is unknown. Here, we a...

1/🧵for our latest research now out as a preprint on #biorxiv, led by @EloiseMLMrqs 💫

**An inherited mtDNA mutation remodels inflammatory cytokine responses in macrophages and in vivo**

#mitochondria #immunometabolism #macrophages

📄Read here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New studies from our lab by Tevis Vitale and Jason Liang in @naturecancer.bsky.social Selective deficiency of complex I subunits causes tumor immunogenicity via T cell surveillance and Immune Checkpoint Blockade responsiveness Collaboration with Widlund, Gygi and Wucherpfennig labs rdcu.be/d6BgJ

An inherited mtDNA mutation remodels inflammatory cytokine responses in macrophages and in vivo Impaired mitochondrial bioenergetics in macrophages can drive hyperinflammatory cytokine responses, but whether this may also be caused by inherited mtDNA mutations is unknown. Here, we address this q...

📢Preprint alert! Very excited to share the first preprint from the lab spearheaded by stellar postdoc Eloïse Marques. An inherited mtDNA mutation remodels inflammatory cytokine responses in macrophages and in vivo. 1/n
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Very excited to start 2025 sharing our latest work @ppuigserverb.bsky.social published in @naturecellbiology.bsky.social! We have shown that the cytosolic chaperone PPID/CYP40 inserts TOM70, connecting chaperones and mitochondrial protein biogenesis to the development of chronic metabolic disorders

And of course, thanks to the great scientific environment and support!
@danafarber.bsky.social @danafarbernews.bsky.social @harvardcellbio.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social @dfgpublic.bsky.social @hhmi.bsky.social

Great thanks to all my amazing collaborators and friends who helped to make this work possible! Some of which are already on Bluesky!
@mellimittenblr.bsky.social @platorremuro.bsky.social @sepidehmehravar.bsky.social @petrocellijj.bsky.social @hagesprenger.bsky.social @amandalsmythers.bsky.social

The human zinc-binding cysteine proteome A deep mapping of the human zinc-binding cysteine proteome (ZnCPT) defines thousands of zinc-binding protein cysteines across major domains of biology and discovers glutathione reductase as zinc-targetable cancer vulnerability.

Thrilled to share our new paper @Chouchani Lab in Cell; what a great way to end this year! We establish a deep mapping of the zinc-binding human cysteine proteome (ZnCPT) and discover glutathione reductase as zinc-targetable cancer vulnerability. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...