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Congratulations to Keri-Lyn Kozul in Natalie Niemi’s lab and Jasmine in ASoranno’s lab in WUSM Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics for being awarded the W. M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biomedical Research. #WomeninSTEM #biochemistry #biophysics

My lab (Natalie Niemi) is seeking an undergraduate researcher starting FL2024. This UG would work directly with me on my sk. muscle and/or cardiac muscle projects! It's a great opportunity to get wet-lab research and learn biochemical, histological, and imaging techniques.🫀🐭🧫

Alexandre Libert bringing home the #bestimage prize ANZSCDB’s #BCDBM 🙌well done Alex!! #cytoskeleton

Excited to share our latest work in @DrDStojanovski lab, Reduced Protein Import via TIM23 SORT Drives Disease Pathology in TIMM50-Associated Mitochondrial Disease. Thank you to Ann E Frazier David R. Thorburn for collaboration and Mito Foundation for support! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Grateful for Natalie who mentors me with, quite literally, all the desired mentor qualities in this illustration! 🫶🏽 Congratulations on this awesome, valuable publication Natalie Niemi 👏🏽

We're pleased to present a special collection examining the diverse mechanisms by which #mitochondria & other #organelles physically interact, & the roles these serve for cellular homeostasis. Explore our first Special Collection on this exciting topic ➡️ hubs.la/Q02D40D-0

Research update! We discover how mitophagy initiation is modulated by NAP1 and SINTBAD. Moving forward, targeting NAP1 and SINTBAD could be an opportunity to lower the threshold for initiation and boost mitophagy activity for mitochondrial health. rdcu.be/dLP3m

It has been super fun hearing all the great mitochondrial research shared United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation #MitoMed2024! Grateful to have had the opportunity to share some of my work last night too.

Really thrilled to see our most recent study on PPTC7, led by @jerrylianjiewei, out today LifeScienceAlliance. We show that PPTC7 unexpectedly localizes to the outer mitochondrial membrane to facilitate BNIP3/NIX degradation, thus limiting mitophagy. life-science-alliance.org/content/7/9/e2…

Do you love organelles? Do you want to visit San Diego this December? If so, you should submit an abstract to give a talk in the "Organelle Biogenesis, Turnover, and Quality Control" special interest subgroup at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting, which I'm co-organizing with Jonathan Friedman!

Out today! We find that an epigenetic modification (6mA) to the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) influences lifespan and the heritability of mtDNA mutations to the next generation. It implies that epigenetics determines genetic composition in future offspring. cell.com/cell-metabolis…

Really excited to share our latest paper describing the MitoLuc assay for quantitative mitochondrial protein import, which we wrote in collaboration with Ian Collinson! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The lab is excited to welcome @BBSBwustl graduate student Maria Broering Maria Broering to our lab for her first rotation. Maria will work with Hannah Pletcher to explore various aspects of mitochondrial metabolism. Welcome, Maria!!

Our latest preprint! Some beautiful cell biology in this one. "Presynapses are mitophagy pit stops that prevent axon degeneration" biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Discoveries into the cell biology of of mitophagy in axons, a disease mechanism, and a potential therapeutic avenue. 1/2

Excited to have the opportunity to help plan such an outstanding event. Please consider coming to St. Louis next summer to attend the annual UMDF Mitochondrial Medicine conference!

Interested in BNIP3/NIX-mediated mitophagy? Check out our new review, written with Jonathan Friedman, about recent advances in the field and our thoughts on the regulation of these mitophagy receptors in space and time. doi.org/10.1042/BST202…

The Niemi Lab is (quite literally) a better combo than 🥛and 🍪! So grateful for these guys, and for Natalie Niemi leading us so well!!!

Two of our postdocs, Jasmine and Keri-Lyn, were awarded W.M. Kick Postdoctoral Fellowships! They will be giving talks over their research: intrinsically disordered region of cardiac troponin T & mitochondrial phosphatase PPTC7 Thursday February 20th, 4-5PM, Connor Auditorium

I am incredibly humbled and grateful to be selected as a finalist for the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation Accelerators Grant! Thank you to the UMDF for this opportunity! I look forward to pitching my research and continuing to learn from the Mito community through this inspiring initiative!

Could not have made it this far without the amazing mentorship of Natalie Niemi !!