📢📢📢Please Save the date and spread the word‼️ The next Ub&Friends meeting (organised by SFB Targeted Protein Degradation) will be on 2-3 May, 24 in #Vienna. Amazing lineup, small size, and a truly friendly community. Great opportunity for #ECRs to meet with fellow #ubiquitin enthusiasts.

PhD opportunity! My new research group at the University of Marburg Philipps-Universität is looking for a highly-motivated PhD student to investigate molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial gene expression. Apply now using the link below!⬇️ Deadline is 3 March 2024. bit.ly/3uhLUSI

PhD opportunity! My new research group at the University of Marburg Philipps-Universität is once again recruiting a highly-motivated PhD student to investigate molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial gene expression. Deadline 5/5/2024. Apply now using the link below!⬇️ bit.ly/4ayZuRx

📢 P L E A S E spread the word‼️ Registration is open for The International Plant Proteostasis Conference, in VIENNA, 17-20 September, 2024: oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-event… Great line up, exciting topics, and friendly meeting. Please register early. #ippc24

📢NEW #Preprint ‼️ Magnum opus of Marion Clavel w/ excellent help from many amazing people. Keywords: #autophagy #viruses #modified_self_recognition #immune_signaling. Please let us know what you think.🧵 summarising our key findings

We are looking for a motivated postdoc to study the links between aging and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The project combines disease modeling using patient-derived iPSCs and C. elegans models. Please apply here or contact me: jobs-uk-koeln.de/index.php?ac=j…

We have a postdoc/lab manager position available in our lab. The position is initially until December 2025 with the possibility to be extended until December 2032. If interested, please contact me or apply here: search.app/B8Jb9mbx5aNdAQ…

Excited to share our lab's latest research on ALS! We discovered that mutant FUS interacts with PARP1 and histone H1.2, accelerating neurodegeneration. Happy to have contributed—Congrats to the entire Vilchez lab, especially Hafiza Alirzayeva! #ALS #Neurodegeneration

Online now!✨RESEARCH: harnessing age-related changes to the spatial organization of chromatin and epigenetic marks, ‘ImAge’ establishes an imaging-based biomarker of aging nature.com/articles/s4358… rdcu.be/dSmEJ

🆕 #Preprint Alert❣️Magnum Opus of brilliant Phd Students Víctor Sánchez de Medina & Marintia Nava, helped by many amazing people. They discovered a new Selective Autophagy Receptor (#SAR), essential for #proteostasis using #comparative_cell_biology biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… 🧵

Applications are welcome, please share 📢

Thrilled to be part of this exciting project and to collaborate with Prof. Dr. Irina Dudanova's team!

Check out our new paper on embryonic macrophages in the bone marrow, now published in Nature Communications — made possible by a truly FANTASTIC TEAM! Claudia Waskow nature.com/articles/s4146… I first shared this story at ISEH 2023 online — and now it’s out!

📢 Update! The abstract submission deadline for the #AMC2025 Aging and Microbiome Conference has been extended to June 30, 2025! 🔗 amc25.leibniz-fli.de 📌 Jena, Germany 📆 Oct 28-29, 2025

New work from the lab! C9orf72 ALS‐causing mutations lead to mislocalization and aggregation of nucleoporin Nup107 into stress granules - Bilican - FEBS Letters - Wiley Online Library febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/18…

Scientists have found a pathway that regulates protein aggregation, a cause of several age-related neurodegenerative diseases.🧠 lifespan.io/news/a-mechani… David Vilchez seda koyuncu By: Arkadi Mazin