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Prof. Ronald Melki is co-organizer of Protein phase transitions in aging and age-related diseases conference

2022-05-03T15:35:47+01:00May 3rd, 2022|News, Partner in the Spotlight|

PD-MitoQUANT PI Prof. Dr Ronald Melki, CNRS, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France is the co-organizer of the Protein phase transitions in aging and age-related diseases: from atomic resolution to cellular solutions conference which will take place in Roscoff, Brittany, France from October 17th through the 21st, 2022. The deadline for applications is June 13th; click here for application guidelines. Invited speakers include PI Dr Olga Corti, ICM, who will speak about Mitochondrial quality control in Parkinson's disease and Ronald Melki, CNRS: Fibril polymorphisms and propagation About [...]

Missed the Parkinson’s Research in Ireland event? Videos are now available!

2022-04-27T15:23:55+01:00April 27th, 2022|News|

The third annual Parkinson's Research in Ireland talk series was held on March 31st and April 7th, 2022. Videos of the short talk are now available for viewing. Dr Niamh Connolly, the Deputy PD-MitoQUANT Coordinator based at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, spoke about results from the project to characterise mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson’s. https://vimeo.com/695823375 Richard Campbell of Parkinson’s UK spoke about his role as a Person with Parkinson’s in the PD-MitoQUANT project and his wider work in Public Patient [...]

Publication news from Dr Daniele Bano and team at the DZNE

2022-04-26T12:03:25+01:00April 25th, 2022|News, Partner in the Spotlight, Publication|

Congratulations to PI Dr Daniele Bano, Joshua Jackson, Lena Wischhof, Enzo Scifo, Anna Pellizzer, Yiru Wang, Antonia Piazzesi, DeboraGentile, Sana Siddig, Miriam Stork, Chris E. Hopkins, KristianHändler, Joachim Weis, Andreas Roos, Joachim L. Schultze, Pierluigi Nicotera, Dan Ehninger, and the team of researchers at the DZNE for their recent paper in Molecular Metabolism. The open-access study titled 'SGPL1 stimulates VPS39 recruitment to the mitochondria in MICU1 deficient cells' was published on April 19th, 2022.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molmet.2022.101503 Download the pdf here.   

PD-MitoQUANT research will be presented at FENS

2022-04-07T09:05:36+01:00April 7th, 2022|News|

Two PD-MitoQUANT research abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the 13th FENS Forum of Neuroscience to be held in Paris, France on the 9th through the 13th of July 2022. The first will be presented by our partners at the Institut de Cerveau (ICM) and is entitled "Cultured mouse dopaminergic neurons as a model system to study alpha-Synuclein aggregation and neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease" by researchers and is the work of Patrick Pierre Michel, Aurore Tourville, David Akbar, Olga [...]

DZNE Prof. DiMonte’s PD-MitoQUANT study published in Brain Communications

2022-04-05T08:37:01+01:00April 5th, 2022|News, Publication|

Congratulations to the research team of Céline Galvagnion, Frederik Ravnkilde Marlet, Silvia Cerri, Anthony H V Schapira, Fabio Blandini, Donato A Di Monte (DZNE). Their paper entitled Sphingolipid changes in Parkinson L444P GBA mutation fibroblasts promote α-synuclein aggregation was published in Brain Communications on April 1st, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab371 Citation: Céline Galvagnion, Frederik Ravnkilde Marlet, Silvia Cerri, Anthony H V Schapira, Fabio Blandini, Donato A Di Monte, Sphingolipid changes in Parkinson L444P GBA mutation fibroblasts promote α-synuclein aggregation, Brain, 2022;, awab371, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab371 Find this with [...]

PD-MitoQUANT publication news from Dr Daniele Bano, DZNE

2022-04-01T17:52:45+01:00March 22nd, 2022|Partner in the Spotlight, Publication|

Dr Daniele Bano Congratulations to Antonia Piazzesi, Yiru Wang, Joshua Jackson, Lena Wischhof, Viktoria Zeisler-Diehl, Enzo Scifo, Ina Oganezova, Thorben Hoffmann, Pablo Gomez Martın, Fabio Bertan, Chester J J Wrobel, Frank C Schroeder, Dan Ehninger, Kristian H€andler, Joachim L Schultze, Lukas Schreiber, Gerhild van Echten-Deckert, Pierluigi Nicotera and Daniele Bano of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) ! Their study 'CEST-2.2 overexpression alters lipid metabolism and extends longevity of mitochondrial mutants' was published in EMBO Reports on March 17th, 2022, e52606 [...]

DZNE Postdoc Hannah Scheiblich interview with the Neuronet project

2022-03-21T09:11:38+00:00March 21st, 2022|News, Partner in the Spotlight|

German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Postdoc Hannah Scheiblich was interviewed by the Neuronet project (https://www.imi-neuronet.org/) on October 13th, 2021. Dr Scheiblich discusses her career, research and the challenges and opportunities existing in her field as part of the continuing series of early-stage researcher interviews. Read the full story here. The Neuronet initiative has been conceived to link IMI projects in order to promote collaboration and to raise the visibility of research findings. Neuronet also aspires to support other initiatives and researchers from all [...]

Parkinson’s Research in Ireland 2022 event announced

2022-03-22T13:47:45+00:00March 7th, 2022|News|

The popular online event series to share information about Parkinson's Research in Ireland continues in 2022! To celebrate Parkinson's Awareness Month, we have assembled a varied array of speakers for short online talks for education, information and conversation surrounding the latest Parkinson's research. The two-night event kicks off March 31st from 6-7 PM and subsequently on April 7th, 2022 also 6-7:00. Our own project Deputy Coordinator Niamh Connolly, RCSI and Richard Campbell representing Parkinson's UK will headline on the first [...]

Our March 2022 newsletter is published

2022-03-02T14:33:36+00:00March 2nd, 2022|News, Partner in the Spotlight|

Our latest newsletter has been published. In our first in 2022, read RCSI Prof. Jochen Prehn's message and research update and learn about our partner UCB and their role in PD-MitoQUANT. The spotlight shines on Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center this month; learn about their research in mitochondrial morphofunction. Page 4's Dissemination Round-up includes where and how we are sharing our new knowledge. Enjoy!

PD-MitoQUANT team assembles for plenary meeting hosted by ICM

2022-02-08T16:19:27+00:00February 8th, 2022|News|

Some members of the PD-MitoQUANT team were hosted by Dr Olga Corti and the team at the Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute (ICM) on the 26th - 27th of January 2022, with others joining remotely for a hybrid plenary meeting. Also joining the meeting were our Scientific and Ethics Advisory Board members, Prof. David Nicholls, Prof. Dr Thomas Gasser and Prof. Siobhán O'Sullivan, and our public patient initiative (PPI) representatives from Parkinson's UK, Paula Scurfield and Richard Campbell. [...]

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