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Michael Lazarou

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Working toward understanding how we can keep our mitochondria fit and healthy. Co-founder: Automera Also here: @lazaroulab.bsky.social

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Michael Lazarou
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ABSTRACTS CLOSE 18 July!. The 11th International Symposium on Autophagy 2025.šŸ“…Ā 16–20 November 2025 | Lorne, Victoria. Registration: We have a fantastic line-up of speakers and a wide range of topics focused on the fascinating world of autophagy.
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Abstracts close in 48h for the 11th ISA! Speaker slots still available including for ECRs and PhD students, as well as poster and speaker prizes!.
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Michael Lazarou
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ABSTRACTS CLOSE 18 July!. The 11th International Symposium on Autophagy 2025.šŸ“…Ā 16–20 November 2025 | Lorne, Victoria. Registration: We have a fantastic line-up of speakers and a wide range of topics focused on the fascinating world of autophagy.
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RT @A_Chacinska: Structural biologists- join us to work on the mechanisms of protein transport to mitochondria! .We work in the interdyscip….
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Join us in Lorne for the 11th ISA. We have a fantastic line up of speakers at a beautiful coastal location in Australia. Hope to see you there!.
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Michael LazarouĀ and I will be chairing the 11th International Symposium on Autophagy (ISA) in Australia from 16-20 Nov 2025!.šŸ“Ā Location:Ā Lorne, Victoria, Australia .🌐 Register now:Ā Join us forĀ five inspiring days of cutting-edge autophagy research!
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RT @RapeLab: This paper is a stark reminder for why it is so important to innovate in drug discovery against neurodegenerative diseases now….
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Nature Medicine - A cohort study of over 15,000 US adults found that the lifetime risk of developing dementia from ages 55 to 95 is 42%, with the highest risk in APOE ε4 carriers, women and...
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RT @BlueSpotScience: Excited that our review: "Exercise as Mitochondrial Medicine: How Does the Exercise Prescription Affect Mitochondrial….
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RT @OdedRechavi: Looking for reviewers before Christmas .
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RT @TimSargeant1: šŸ“¢šŸ“¢New work from Dr Linh Dang in my group - analysis of physiological human autophagic flux in leukocytes. Surprises relat….
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Autophagy is a naturally conserved mechanism crucial for degrading and recycling damaged organelles and proteins to support cell survival. This process slows biological ageing and age-related disease...
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RT @RapeLab: Excited to reveal specific reactive oxygen species as sentinel molecules that control localized protein degradation at #mitoch….
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This work identifies reactive oxygen species released by the electron transport chain as sentinel molecules that regulate localized protein degradation at mitochondrial TOM complexes, a mechanism...
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RT @EricTopol: Did we conceive the structure of neurons incorrectly all these years?.@NatureNeuro .not smooth, cyli….
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Fine-grained imaging of mouse brain cells suggests ā€œpearlingā€ of axons that researchers think may help with signaling
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RT @miratul_neuro: It was great to have nearly 120 scientists gather for 20th anniversary @BiochemSoc @ASAP_Research meeting in London to m….
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Michael Lazarou
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Free. No registration. Following @mitodynamics presentation there will be a Q&A session. Put it in your calendar now and join via ZOOM:
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Michael Lazarou
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Don’t miss Dr Heidi McBride from @mcgillu speaking at the @WEHI_research #Parkinsons Disease Research Centre on her work looking at mitochondrial derived vesicles in neurodegeneration and Parkinson’s Monday 2 Dec at 11am AEST. 🧵 1/2.
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RT @KononenkoLab: We have a PhD position available to study neuronal functions of autophagy and endocytosis.
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3/3 🧵Fascinating features of cell biology can be revealed using AIVE and FIB-SEM, including nucleoplasmic reticulum tubes (purple, middle cell)
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Michael Lazarou
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2/3 🧵Here are a few examples of ER-mito intrusions. Mito-mito intrusions were also observed. As were intrusion relays between ER and mitos spanning multiple organelles.
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Update! We outline AIVE, an AI method for volume EM data. We show the benefits of AIVE for reconstructing your FIB-SEM data, reveal some fascinating cell biology, and define intrusions as a new form of mitochondrial contact. . Muscle mito nanotunnels 1/3🧵
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RT @TheHurleyLab: Proud of new work from the lab by Zhicheng (Chen) Cui @Chen3dem using single-particle cryo-EM on….
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