As promised, here is a deepdive into our #preprint from the previous post: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… The one-liner: We reveal for the first time the step-by-step progression of #autophagosome #biogenesis directly in a cell by using correlative #cryoet. 1/7

Many congratulations to Wilfling Lab PhD student Johann Brenner (Johann Brenner). Work from his Master’s thesis, using a microfluidic reactor to investigate the dynamics of a cell-free genetic oscillator, has just been published! nature.com/articles/s4146…

In their recent paper, Ji et al. harness the power of #autophagy. They develop a promising platform to selectively target a range of proteins for degradation via autophagy, which they name AUTOTAC. This might create new avenues to target diseases or make new research tools.

Warmest congratulations to our research group leader @WilflingFlorian (The Wilfling Lab) on receiving a prestigious ERC Starting Grant for his research on #autophagosomes which help the cell remove its waste! What a great success🥳👏European Research Council (ERC) #ERCStG 👉biophys.mpg.de/2677330/erc-gr…

We are proud to welcome our new post-doc colleague, Javier Lizarrondo (Javier). He will use the tremendous structural biology skills from his Ph.D. at SPC Facility & Garcia-Alai Lab @EMBL Hamburg @EMBL to study membrane remodelling proteins involved in the generation of the phagophore. Welcome, Javier! 😄

It’s been a great start to the week at #EMBOautophagy24 in beautiful Sorrento ☀️ There‘s still time to come and visit our poster (number 21) and I look forward to more interesting discussions 👩‍🔬🔬

Thanks to Women in Autophagy for giving me the opportunity to present our work looking at the organisation of the selective autophagy cargo Ape1 by in situ cryo-electron tomography ❄️🔬at #WIA2024meeting. What a great symposium!