Congratulations to Lioba Ester for a brilliant thesis defense CECAD Cologne Uniklinik Köln 🎉🥳🍾 !!! Many thanks to Joseph Bonventre and his team for allowing Lioba to enter the world of kidney organoids!

Excited to share our new research on the role of BTLA in glomerulonephritis! Check out the paper and dive into the fascinating world of kidney diseases!This study uncovers fascinating insights into the immune response and potential therapeutic targets journals.lww.com/jasn/Abstract/…

📢Thrilled to share: Our latest study on NUPs & the #Hippo regulators YAP/TAZ is now live Human Molecular Genetics. We add another puzzle piece to the role of YAP/TAZ in #Podocytes and #FSGS. Congrats & a big THANK YOU to the entire team! #nephrology #NephroLab tinyurl.com/42e7jf4d

🔬 Final print out!! 🔍 Lioba Ester sheds light on FSGS and nephrotic syndrome's mysteries 🧩 YAP/TAZ dysregulation in mutated NUP205 patients might be key🗝️ Thank you for the opportunity to contribute for the field 🐙 academic.oup.com/hmg/advance-ar…

We perform a fully unsupervised analysis of the filtration barrier in kidney and show that it allows to group images in a way that reflects their morphometry: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Great collaboration with the NephroLab David Unnersjö-Jess Linus Butt !

📣 A new star is born in the cilia world and cell death galaxy: Emilia Kieckhöfer brilliantly defended her PhD today! Congratulations!!! 🎉🥳👍 #cilia #necroptosis #bbs #ciliopathy Uniklinik Köln CECAD Cologne SFB_1403 Universität zu Köln

On the road/track for podocytes-Hippo-Ajuba: Heading to Beate and Team in Münster 😊🐙🫘🦛 #Podocyte #Hippo #Ajuba #yap #mechanosensor

🎉🥳NOW ONLINE: Our #snRNAseq study on #YAP and #TAZ in #podocytes🐙 THANKS to Lioba Ester & Inês Cabrita & the team (including Eva Wiesner He Chen Paul Diefenhardt francesca fabretti) & to incredibly thorough reviewers at #JASN ASN Publications! journals.lww.com/jasn/abstract/… #kidney #health #science

Research shows that transcriptional regulators YAP and TAZ can maintain podocyte viability by compensating for each other's loss, but TAZ fails to maintain YAP-specific functions, leading to podocyte injury. bit.ly/JASN0689 #ASNJASN #BasicResearch