Highlights from yICSA at #ICSA2025Rome 🌍✨
✔️Networking Social Event 🤝
✔️Special Session with career insights from @dimiccolab.bsky.social & @narita-lab.bsky.social 🙌
Thank you to everyone who joined us!
#yICSA #Senescence #ECR

I had a great time presenting my work on mtDNA replication and senescence from the @wanrooij20.bsky.social lab @umeauniversitet.bsky.social today at the #ICSA2025Rome conference, with super exciting discussions. Thanks a lot @icsasenescence.bsky.social and @yicsac.bsky.social !

Beautiful moonophagy! 😁

www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...

in my view the problem started when we forced basic science to be translational. this distorted it's nature and created false expectations, which in turn eroded the trust on basic science.

Our newest paper on mitochondrial Topoisomerase 1 shows that Top1mt has only weak endoribonuclease activity and it therefore does not often generate deletions at incorporated ribonucleotides. This helps explain why ribonucleotides are tolerated in mtDNA. Read more:
academic.oup.com/nar/article-...

On a road trip from Umeå (SE) to Rokua (FI) to attend the #Mitochondria Summer School this week!

Amazing to be back at @univ-larochelle.fr today to talk about #mtDNA, #senescence and #cancer at @umrlienss.bsky.social and have exciting discussions! Going back to Sweden tomorrow, but I hope to return to La Rochelle soon.

Two mtDNA papers of ours in one PNAS issue:
#1 on the Y951N patient mutation of PolG, heroically spear-headed by Josefin Forslund
#2 revealing surprising dNTP imbalance & subsequent mtDNA depletion in RRM2B-deficient mice, a great collaboration with the Chabes lab
www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/122...

Good science from Josefin Forslund and our team:
The POLγ Y951N patient mutation disrupts the switch between DNA synthesis and proofreading, triggering mitochondrial DNA instability | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hello fellow mitochondriacs! Are you passionate about mtDNA? We now offer a 2-year postdoc opportunity for studies of mtDNA instability and its signaling. Apply by May 18th to join our international team in exotic Umeå. Please share!
www.umu.se/en/work-with...

#StarterPack for the #Mitochondria research community! Very much a work in progress, comment below/reach out to be added!

#Mito #Mitochondriac

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