
Michael Lazarou
@lazaroulab
Working toward understanding how we can keep our mitochondria fit and healthy. Co-founder: Automera
Now here: @lazaroulab.bsky.social
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26-02-2021 00:32:37
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Super happy to see my PhD work with @martens_sascha out in The EMBO Journal. A big thanks to everyone involved and also to EMBO Press for the smooth revision process! #Autophagy #MaxPerutzLabs #VBC For more infos see the paper & my previous tweetorial: embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…


New paper out! #AMPK regulates #ULK1 to balance #mitophagy of functional vs dysfunctional mitochondria in Molecular Cell. Great work from authors, especially Marianna Longo Aniketh Bishnu and collaborators @Kei_Sakamoto Carol MacKintosh. See it here: tinyurl.com/AMPK-ULK


Proud of new work tinyurl.com/yhz4c6ry from the lab by Zhicheng (Chen) Cui Zhicheng Cui | 崔志成 using single-particle cryo-EM on liposomes to show how mTORC1 integrates nutrient and growth factor signaling at lysosomes, collab. w/ Gennaro Napolitano, A. Esposito, and A. Ballabio.



It was great to have nearly 120 scientists gather for 20th anniversary Biochemical Society Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s meeting in London to mark discovery of #PINK1 mutations in Parkinson's patients by Nick Wood MovementDisordersUCL UCL Brain Sciences in 2004. 🙏also to Cure Parkinson's Parkinson UK


Did we conceive the structure of neurons incorrectly all these years? nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Neuroscience not smooth, cylindrical strands but a string of pearls? it's controversial science.org/content/articl… News from Science Science Magazine


Excited to reveal specific reactive oxygen species as sentinel molecules that control localized protein degradation at #mitochondria to adjust the electron transport chain, with many implications for ROS in development and disease. UC Berkeley Molecular Therapeutics Initiative cell.com/molecular-cell…





This paper is a stark reminder for why it is so important to innovate in drug discovery against neurodegenerative diseases now. Molecular Therapeutics Initiative nature.com/articles/s4159…