Join us for Journal Club tomorrow, November 12th, as Dr. Elias Adriaenssens presents his recently published article in Nature Cell Biology, titled “Reconstitution of BNIP3/NIX-mitophagy initiation reveals hierarchical flexibility of the autophagy machinery.”

We look forward to seeing you there!

My good friend and brilliant scientist is recruiting a Postdoc for her new lab at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne, Germany! If you're interested in skeletal muscle cell function on a molecular level see the details below and apply!

A lipid transfer-dependent feedback loop activates ATG9A compartments in autophagy initiation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.16.670665v1

Happy to share the latest from the lab, led by Daniel Alvarez, in collaboration with @lizconibear.bsky.social‬. In this AA-MD tour-de-force, we delve deep into the mechanism and energetics of lipid uptake by bridge-like lipid transfer proteins, and we learn a few interesting things along the way...

🎓 Let’s give a big round of applause to Rahel Dabrowski @raheldabrowski.bsky.social from the Graef lab, who just successfully defended her PhD thesis!👏🎊
Rahel, we’re so proud of everything you’ve accomplished during your PhD journey and can’t wait to see what amazing things you’ll do next!

After a rather long break from social media, I’ve finally gotten around to making the switch from X to Bluesky. Taking it slow, but looking forward to rebuilding my network and reconnecting here. 🙃👋