Mari Chiritoiu
marichiritoiu.bsky.social
Mari Chiritoiu
@marichiritoiu.bsky.social
Cell biologist interested in unconventional protein secretion in health and disease. Affiliated to Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy. Mother. (She/her) Opinions my own
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Nice paper from Kota @saitolab.bsky.social! Balanced phosphorylation of TANGO1 and Sec16A keep ER exit sites stable and functional.
Do cells maintain this dynamically to keep secretory machinery primed and responsive to changing cargo loads or environmental signals?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Join us at @icfo.eu in Barcelona next February for the 1st @embo.org Workshop on "Intracellular mechanics and organelle mechanobiology". I am convinced it will be very interesting! We have extended the abstract submission deadline to December 8, so no excuses :) #EMBOmechanobio
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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#ToPrimeOrNotToPrime, this is the question! Excited for our new review @cp-trendsimmuno.bsky.social with @oceanedufies.bsky.social in which we discuss what is “priming” for the #NLRP3 #inflammasome & how we can harness this knowledge to better control human diseases! #InflammasomePower! #Free 👇👇👇
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November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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If you are interested in membrane trafficking and IDPRs, please join us!
Attention membrane traffickers! I'm recruiting a post-doc to my lab in Dundee. We're dissecting the functions of intrinsically disordered domains of COPII coat proteins. We think they control timing of coat assembly and morphology of carriers.

www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...
Postdoctoral Research Assistant - MCDB - UOD2016
Closing date: Thursday 6 November 2025, 23:59
www.dundee.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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It was a great pleasure to work on this paper. What started as a small meeting in January this year resulted in this beautiful piece of work.
September 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Hard to overstate what incredible news this is.
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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@colllab.bsky.social et al. show that both BAL-0028 & BAL-0598 inhibit select hyperactive #NLRP3 mutations associated with #autoinflammation more potently than MCC950. BAL-0028 & BAL-0598 represent a new modality for NLRP3 inhibition in inflammatory diseases rupress.org/jem/article/...
#Inflammasome
September 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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An NLRP3 stimulatory universal influenza vaccine.
We report an NLRP3 stimulus that generates hyperactive dendritic cells (hDCs).
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
An NLRP3-stimulatory adjuvant improves the immunogenicity of influenza virus vaccines in mice and non-human primates | mBio
The generation of vaccines that stimulate T cell activities is an unmet need for the scientific community, as T cells are the primary mediators of immune memory. In this study, we report a new vaccine...
journals.asm.org
September 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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New paper alert! Stellar work by brilliant lead first author @annaleder.bsky.social together with project leader @masgu.bsky.social reveals a groundbreaking discovery: PDIA6 forms multi-chaperone condensates creating "folding factories" in the ER. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Are there spatial restrictions in NLRP3 #inflammasome activation? I am super excited to share our new study spearheaded by amazing @elvirab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Clustering of NLRP3 induced by membrane or protein scaffolds promotes inflammasome assembly - Nature Communications
NLRP3 inflammasome activation is critical for the induction of protective immunity, but molecular insights are still lacking. Here, the authors express NLRP3 variants targeted to different cellular lo...
www.nature.com
May 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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When the CRG's Vivek Malhotra first identified a handful of protein-coding genes called TANGO in 2006, he had no idea that one of them, TANGO2, would eventually be linked to a life-threatening disorder in children. His team has continued to study the protein since.
Science finds explanation for disease that leaves children ‘frozen’
A team from the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona details the molecular mechanism of a rare illness that causes transient paralysis and dangerous arrhythmias
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March 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Today is Rare disease day!
There are over 6000 rare diseases that present with a variety of symptoms affecting all organs. Although we call them rare, they affect over 300 millions of individuals world-wide. Help raise awareness, so we, scientists, can search for cures.
February 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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1/ From Brazil to South Korea, we’re excited to welcome 107 early-career researchers who are looking to promote responsible behaviours in science to the eLife Community Ambassador programme 🎉
https://buff.ly/3EYNfmE
February 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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CAR-T-cell therapy treated a girl with a rare childhood cancer, raising hopes for future recipients of the approach

https://go.nature.com/41duwuO
Woman in cancer remission for record 19 years after CAR-T immune treatment
Nature - CAR-T-cell therapy treated a girl with a rare childhood cancer, raising hopes for future recipients of the approach.
go.nature.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Looking for a PostDoc? Exciting science and great city! Join us @albertpol.bsky.social @albertherms.bsky.social in @idibaps.bsky.social Barcelona to work in an @ercresearch.bsky.social funded project to study how lipid droplets attract and kill bacteria. www.clinicbarcelona.org/uploads/medi...
February 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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This is tomorrow (Thursday) at 5pm CET, looking forward to it! cc/ @ishier.bsky.social @franbottanelli.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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The job call is officially open. If you're interested, please apply through this link ASAP! 😃

www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...

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January 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Exciting news! #MembraneTrafficking online seminars with @felixmendu.bsky.social @franbottanelli.bsky.social and me are back!
Check the spectacular Jan-April 2025 lineup.
Details (Zoom links, calendar invites) on the mailing list, Slack group & website: felixcampelo.wixsite.com/membranetraf...
January 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM