Publication news from DZNE

2023-06-12T16:50:40+01:00September 9th, 2022|News, Partner in the Spotlight, Publication|

Our PI Prof. Donato A. DiMonte of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and co-authors Michael Helwig, Ayse Ulusoy, Angela Rollar, Sinead A. O’Sullivan, Shirley S. L. Lee, Helia Aboutalebi, Rita Pinto-Costa, Benjamin Jevans, and Michael Klinkenberg announce the publication of "Neuronal hyperactivity–induced oxidant stress promotes in vivo alpha-synuclein brain spreading" in Volume 8, No. 35 of Science Advances on August 31st, 2022. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn0356  

Check out our final newsletter!

2022-08-31T16:11:54+01:00August 31st, 2022|News, Partner in the Spotlight|

It's hard to believe we reached the end of the project in July 2022. Our final newsletter is now out, with an update on our most recent publications and dissemination activities. You can also read about our last consortium meeting in Copenhagen, including the parting thoughts of our public patient involvement (PPI) volunteers.

Review article from DZNE published in The Lancet

2022-08-25T09:19:43+01:00August 25th, 2022|News, Partner in the Spotlight, Publication|

"AIFM1 beyond cell death: An overview of this OXPHOSinducing factor in mitochondrial diseases," an open-access review article prepared by Lena Wischhof, Enzo Scifo, Dan Ehninger and our PD-MitoQUANT PI Daniele Bano was published in eBioMedicine, part of The Lancet Discovery Science on August 18th, 2022. The research team is based at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), in Bonn, Germany. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104231 Summary: Apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) is a mitochondrial intermembrane space flavoprotein with diverse functions in cellular physiology. In this [...]

New PD-MitoQUANT research published in IEEE conference proceedings

2022-07-14T08:46:37+01:00July 8th, 2022|News, Partner in the Spotlight, Publication|

Congratulations to PD-MitoQUANT researchers Prof. Jochen Prehn, Dr Niamh Connolly and Sandeep Chenna of the RCSI! Their paper "Phenomenological equations for electron transport chain-mediated reactive oxygen species metabolism" was published open access on July 8th, 2022 as part of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) proceedings. DOI: 10.1109/BIBM52615.2021.9669351 Download the PDF here.

PD-MitoQUANT research presented at Dutch Translational Metabolism Conference

2022-05-30T13:16:29+01:00May 30th, 2022|News, Partner in the Spotlight|

Post-doc Dr Shruti Desai of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUMC) and Sandeep Chenna of the RCSI will present PD-MitoQUANT research at the 2022 Dutch Translational Metabolism Conference, which will be held in Wageningen on June 13th and 14th (https://www.translationalmetabolism.nl/). Shruti's poster is titled: PD-MitoQUANT: Quantification of Mitochondrial Morphofunction in hiPSC- derived Cortical Neurons. Sandeep's is titled: Systems modelling of mitochondrial bioenergetics and genome scale metabolic modelling to explore molecular defects contributing to pathogenesis in Parkinson’s. The aim of the [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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!

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