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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tomorrow last day for early registation. Do not miss the opportunity and join us!!!

Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Sep 3

Last days for earlybird registration! Lots of travel grants for students and postdocs and many opportunities for short talks! Join us in Santiago de Compostela!

Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Jul 9

Don’t Miss the Spanish Society of Cell Biology (SEBC) Meeting 2025!
📍 Santiago de Compostela
📅 October 21–24, 2025

👉 Register now at sebc2025.org to:

Secure your discounted registration

Apply for fellowships covering the registration fee (available for junior researchers!)

Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thanks to you for sharing with us your science and friendship! Long life to @mitowomen.bsky.social #femaleinscience 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻. Next stop Santiago de Compostela at our SEBC meeting in October!🤗🤗🤗

Lorea Valcárcel Jiménez @loreav.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks @auroradevea.bsky.social for the invitation to present our work at the mitochondrial group in the #47congresoSEBBM always supporting mitowomen! 🌻 @sebbm.bsky.social @ehu.eus

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Sep 6

What a presentation @jorgms.bsky.social! You blew oir minds! So happy you joined us!! 💕💕🤗

Jorge Montesinos @jorgms.bsky.social · Sep 5

Just presented our work on cholesterol regulation of microglia at #47congresosebbm. Thanks to my mitobestie @auroradevea.bsky.social

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Sep 6

Home after a fantatastic week in Cáceres for the 47th SEBBM meeting! Thank you very much @sabiolab.bsky.social @pgonzalezrodriguez.bsky.social @juanaloca2002.bsky.social and the rest of the organisers for the hard work and the patience! You guys rock! SEBBM is the life example of #womeninscience!💪🏻💪🏻

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Very proud of my friend Diana Guallar @epiageing-lab.bsky.social who has been awarded with the ‘Mujer y Ciencia Award” this year by SEBBM at the #47thSEBBMmeeting! For her work carried at @cimususc.bsky.social

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Sep 3

Last days for earlybird registration! Lots of travel grants for students and postdocs and many opportunities for short talks! Join us in Santiago de Compostela!

Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Jul 9

Don’t Miss the Spanish Society of Cell Biology (SEBC) Meeting 2025!
📍 Santiago de Compostela
📅 October 21–24, 2025

👉 Register now at sebc2025.org to:

Secure your discounted registration

Apply for fellowships covering the registration fee (available for junior researchers!)

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Sep 2

Proud to see our Rafael Garrido Fernandez presenting his data at SEBBM 47th meeting. If you are interested in knowing more about mtDNA signaling in LUAD! Go and visit Rafa at póster 288 next thursday and friday.

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Jul 30

What an honor veinte at the cams this year! Thanks a lot @fafianlabora.bsky.social for having us!!!

Juan Fafian-Labora @fafianlabora.bsky.social · Jul 23

We finished @cams2025.bsky.social with @auroradevea.bsky.social from @cimususc.bsky.social. She is talking about MitoPhenomics of health and disease

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Manuel Collado @manuel-collado.bsky.social · Jul 13

Happy to see this fantastic paper by @mela-virus.bsky.social and her lab at @cimususc.bsky.social in which we have collaborated, finally published in Cell Death & Disease, “SUMOylation of the lysine-less tumor suppressor p14ARF counters ubiquitylation-dependent degradation”:
rdcu.be/evZx9

SUMOylation of the lysine-less tumor suppressor p14ARF counters ubiquitylation-dependent degradation

Cell Death & Disease - SUMOylation of the lysine-less tumor suppressor p14ARF counters ubiquitylation-dependent degradation

rdcu.be

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jul 10

A study in Nature Metabolism shows that under glucose-depleted conditions, neurons can use fatty acids as an alternative source of energy to support synaptic function. go.nature.com/44T8kct 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows DDHD2 lipase localizes to synaptic terminals in the hippocampus.

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Jul 9

Don’t Miss the Spanish Society of Cell Biology (SEBC) Meeting 2025!
📍 Santiago de Compostela
📅 October 21–24, 2025

👉 Register now at sebc2025.org to:

Secure your discounted registration

Apply for fellowships covering the registration fee (available for junior researchers!)

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Jun 17

Happy to see many (and mito) spanish scientists in the awardees of the Advanced Grant 2024! Special congratulations @genoxphos.bsky.social,
Ana Garcia Saez, @bolanosjuanp.bsky.social as well to all the others! erc.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

erc.europa.eu

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Jun 8

Inherited mitochondrial genetics as a
predictor of immune checkpoint inhibition
efficacy in melanoma www.nature.com/articles/s41... and many other cancer types and therapies! Mind the mtDNA population genetics please!

Inherited mitochondrial genetics as a predictor of immune checkpoint inhibition efficacy in melanoma - Nature Medicine

In this genomic analysis of peripheral blood samples of the phase 3 CheckMate-067 trial of ipilimumab (IPI) versus nivolumab (NIVO) versus ipilimumab and nivolumab (IPI-NIVO) in melanoma, the status o...

www.nature.com

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Jun 5

Mindblowing!!!

Antoine Zalc @antoinezalc.bsky.social · Jun 4

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dev bio is amazing !!

Maternal iron deficiency causes male-to-female sex reversal in mouse embryos - Nature

Iron-deficient conditions in pregnant mice can cause XY mouse embryos to develop female rather than male genitalia, revealing that iron metabolism has a role in determining male sex in mice.

www.nature.com

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Jun 4

Nuestro grupo oferta una de ellos!! Venir a disfrutar de la ciencia mitocondrial con nosotros!!! ❤️❤️

CiMUS @cimususc.bsky.social · Jun 4

¿Te apasiona la investigación biomédica?
🧬 Este verano puedes dar tus primeros pasos en laboratorios del #CiMUS durante el mes de julio 🔹
Oferta de 🔟 Becas de verano. Solicítalas ya antes del 10/06 👇
📎 Info completa aquí cimus.usc.gal/es/empleo/be...

Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Jun 2

Do not miss our webinar tomorrow with 🗣️ @tabaralc.bsky.social and
🗣️ @dplamartin.bsky.social lots of mitochondrial fun!!

Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular (SEBBM) @sebbm.bsky.social · May 19

🗓️El próximo 3 de junio a las 9:30h "Webinar Grupo mitocondria, comunicación celular y estrés oxidativo"
🗣️ @tabaralc.bsky.social
🗣️ @dplamartin.bsky.social

✍️ https://f.mtr.cool/viplyyclpu
▶️ Síguelo en directo: https://f.mtr.cool/gdboqaaksx

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · May 15

you guys look fantastic!

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Taylor Lab @taylorlabncl.bsky.social · May 14

Great to be working alongside @mitocamb.bsky.social @ucl-qs-cnmd.bsky.social @lilyfoundation.bsky.social and @mitonewcastle.bsky.social colleagues in this new Centre!

The Lily Foundation @lilyfoundation.bsky.social · May 14

We’re proud that the @lifearc.bsky.social Centre for Rare Mitochondrial Diseases has officially launched at a prestigious House of Lords event – a significant milestone in transforming the UK’s rare disease research landscape

Stay tuned to meet the lead minds behind the centre on our Research Zone!

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · May 5

Don´t miss the opportunity to be part of this fantastic meeting with a stellar lineup of speakers, loads of opportunities to present your work, and in beautiful Santiago de Compostela!!!! Sign up!!

Manuel Collado @manuel-collado.bsky.social · May 5

📢 XXI Meeting of SEBC
🌐 Santiago de Compostela
📅 21-24 October 2025
Don´t miss the opportunity to be part of this fantastic meeting with a stellar lineup of speakers, loads of opportunities to present your work, and in beautiful Santiago de Compostela

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Khalimonchuk Lab @mitocrue.bsky.social · Mar 30

Running a genetic stop sign accelerates oxygen metabolism and energy production in horses

Horses are among nature’s greatest athletes, yet the ancestral molecular adaptations fueling their energy demands are poorly understood. Within a clinically important pathway regulating redox and meta...

www.science.org

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Aurora Gomez-Duran @auroradevea.bsky.social · Mar 28

Mind-blowing talk today by @martakova.bsky.social today on metabolic regulation of plasticity and beyond!! Watch this space!

Marta Kovatcheva @martakova.bsky.social · Mar 26

Can't wait to see you soon! Thanks for having me 😊😊

CiMUS @cimususc.bsky.social · Mar 25

✳️ Join us for a fascinating #CiMUSseminar!

🔬 Guest speaker: @martakova.bsky.social from @ifomresearch.bsky.social) on cell plasticity in development, aging & cancer.

👥 Hosted by PI @manuel-collado.bsky.social

#RedeCIGUS #FondosEuropeos @usc.gal

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Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · Mar 21

In-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain

Mitochondria regenerate adenosine triphosphate (ATP) through oxidative phosphorylation. This process is carried out by five membrane-bound complexes collectively known as the respiratory chain, workin...

www.science.org

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Shannon Macauley @macauleylab.bsky.social · Mar 20

The importance of considering time of day for metabolic experiments

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research - Nature Metabolism

This broad group of authors summarizes the impact of circadian factors on metabolic biology and offers recommendations on how to account for and report biological, environmental and experimental facto...

www.nature.com

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Agnel Sfeir @agnelsfeir.bsky.social · Mar 10

Combining bacterial end joining with programmable nucleases, we induced mtDNA deletions in human cells at varying heteroplasmy and examined their metabolic and cellular effects. Simple tool to apply across any cell type and engineer pathogenic mtDNA deletions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Engineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria

Recent breakthroughs in the genetic manipulation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have enabled precise base substitutions and the efficient elimination of…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · Mar 10

Engineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Engineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria

Combined expression of a mitochondrially targeted endonuclease and end-joining machinery enables formation of mtDNA deletions with a broad range of heteroplasmy.

www.cell.com

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