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Nikita Kozhushko
@nikitakozhushko.bsky.social
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(she/her) | 🎓MSc, BSc (Hons) | PhD student at @Cambridge_Uni
with an interest in PD/AD genomics, neurodegeneration and all things mitochondria. Previously at NIH.All views are my own 🫡
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Celebrating Postdoc Research – National Postdoc Appreciation Week 2025!

#PostdocAppreciationWeek #PostdocResearch #CIMR #MBU #Cambridge #ResearchSeminar #ScienceCommunication #CambridgeUniversity
September 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Congratulations @kev-in-situ-et.bsky.social and the whole team on in situ cryo-ET images of OA-induced mitochondria damage and Parkin-dependent mitophagy out now tinyurl.com/25b82cp4. We couldn't have done it without in situ guru @wilflinglab.bsky.social and mito guru @samlewis.bsky.social .‬
July 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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frisophagy.bsky.social
Last week's mitophagy news is packed with papers!! 📚🧑‍💻

Full list 👇
biomed.news/bims-tofagi/...

Highlights:
-in vitro reconstitution of receptor-mediated mitophagy reveals key principles
-cytosolic phosphoUbiquitin inhibits proteasomal activity and is neurotoxic

Thanks to @biomednews.bsky.social
Ubiquitin phosphorylation inhibits both ubiquitin chain elongation and ubiquitin proteasome interactions.
August 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Reposted by Nikita Kozhushko
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Parkinson’s might start in the kidneys.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease - Nature Neuroscience
Yuan et al. find that the kidney can serve as a site of initiation for the spread of pathological α-synuclein to the brain, contributing to the development of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and providing a ...
www.nature.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM