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Maria Livia Sassano

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Cell biologist, cell death lover, organelle trafficking and Alzheimer's disease. |Postdoc in @DeStrooperLab |Former PhD, in @AgostinisLab.

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@SassanoLivia
Maria Livia Sassano
6 months
Super grateful to see our image on the June cover of Nature Cell Biology ❤️‍🔥 representative of our work https://t.co/77IVgXKXAz…! Many thx to @AgostinisLab and @NatureCellBio editorial team! @VIBLifeSciences https://t.co/MXdsXvWdYt
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@Madam_Mito
Madam Mitochondria
6 months
Endoplasmic reticulum–mitochondria contacts are prime hotspots of phospholipid peroxidation driving ferroptosis | Nature Cell Biology
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Nature Cell Biology - Sassano et al. identify endoplasmic reticulum–mitochondria contact sites as the intracellular location where phospholipid peroxidation first occurs to promote...
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Maria Livia Sassano
6 months
🚀Delighted to share our latest discovery revealing the initiation sites of ferroptosis: the ER-mitochondria contact sites! Huge thx to @AgostinisLab and collab @LabScorrano @LMCSLeuven @VIBLifeSciences https://t.co/Sq2pXn9zdD #ferroptosis #contactsites #ER #mitochondria #lipid
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Nature Cell Biology - Sassano et al. identify endoplasmic reticulum–mitochondria contact sites as the intracellular location where phospholipid peroxidation first occurs to promote...
@AgostinisLab
Agostinis Lab
6 months
https://t.co/8MeQuJeabH 🚨 Where does #lipid peroxidation kick off in #ferroptosis?🔥Excited to reveal #ER-#mitochondria #contactsites as ignition point of the lipid peroxidation cascade! Huge kudos to our @SassanoLivia &our amazing collaborators making this breakthrough possible
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@J_Cell_Sci
J Cell Science
7 months
In their Cell Science at a Glance article, Antigoni Diokmetzidou & Luca Scorrano @LabScorrano summarise the mitochondrial contacts characterised in mammals, the mechanisms underlying their formation, and their principal functions. https://t.co/zKHSh7w3Wa #JCSMitoSI #OpenAccess
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@Nature
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1 year
Guess what? Mitochondria are weirder than we thought
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@BPoD_s
Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD
1 year
Cristae Clear: Imaging mitochondria in living cells with multi-colour STED nanoscopy 📷: @TianyanL & @stephan_till et al @ZhixingChen2 @PKU1898 in @PNASNews ➡️: https://t.co/TCtOPN8x2D with @AntDLewis
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@Madam_Mito
Madam Mitochondria
1 year
Dynamic death decisions: How mitochondrial dynamics shape cellular commitment to apoptosis and ferroptosis: Developmental Cell
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Mitochondrial dynamics support organelle quality and function, which widely influences cellular biochemistry and signaling. In this review, Khatun et al. discuss the relationships between mitochond...
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@AgostinisLab
Agostinis Lab
1 year
Many congratulations to our postdoc @Julie_bonnereau for winning the @embojournal poster prize at #MRS2024 🥳👏🏻
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@JCellBiol
Journal of Cell Biology
1 year
.@SassanoLivia @AgostinisLab reveal that PERK promotes lipid trafficking at the ER–mitochondria contact sites thru a non-conventional, unfolded protein response-independent, mechanism https://t.co/kK3lXSHzwf In our Inter-Organelle Contacts collection: https://t.co/SVYltCHtaX
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@SassanoLivia
Maria Livia Sassano
1 year
Proud and honored to see our work in this special collection on "organelle-hugging sites" together with other amazing works @AgostinisLab @JCellBiol #ER#mitochondria#contactsites
@JCellBiol
Journal of Cell Biology
1 year
We're pleased to present a special collection examining the diverse mechanisms by which #mitochondria & other #organelles physically interact, & the roles these serve for cellular homeostasis. Explore our first Special Collection on this exciting topic ➡️ https://t.co/WdsrhAKDqr
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Maria Livia Sassano
2 years
Very happy to share our #preprint revealing the early events triggered by ferroptosis at the ER-mitochondria contact sites, apical orchestrators of lethal lipid peroxidation driving ferroptosis. Thx to @AgostinisLab and all our collaborators! @LabScorrano @LMCSLeuven #KaganLab
@AgostinisLab
Agostinis Lab
2 years
Excited to share our new preprint showing ER-mitochondria contact sites as apical nexus of lipid-peroxidation driving ferroptosis. Kudos to our @SassanoLivia & thx to our collaborators @LMCSLeuven, #KaganLab and @LabScorrano #ferroptosis #contactsites #ER https://t.co/Vme4qkBfdw
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@Alex_van_Vliet
Alex van Vliet
2 years
Proud to share our latest work, published in @J_Cell_Sci where we investigate the interactome of the core autophagy protein ATG9A, and characterize a new interaction with the lipid transport protein VPS13A. https://t.co/1HuU2dj3z4 #Autophagy #Lipidtransport #Membranetrafficking
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@AgostinisLab
Agostinis Lab
2 years
We said a bittersweet goodbye to our talented CDRT postdoc, Dr. Diede Houbaert @DHoubaert, who will start a new journey. Thank you Diede you have been an amazing collaborator and a pillar of our group, we will miss you!!! we wish you all the best!🫶
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@SatokoS_PhD
Satoko Shinjo / 新荘聡子
2 years
Just before holidays, we had the Chistmas party! Following three guidelines: wear sparkling/drink well/dance well, we had a lot of fun!! @LabScorrano
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@BPoD_s
Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD
2 years
Details revealed of the interaction between #endoplasmicreticulum & #mitochondria – malfunction of which causes many disorders. Video still & research by @SassanoLivia et al @AgostinisLab @KU_Leuven in @JCellBiol. On https://t.co/SssTTKCWNj find links there & 12 yrs BPoD archive
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@JCellBiol
Journal of Cell Biology
2 years
.@SassanoLivia et al @AgostinisLab reveal that PERK promotes lipid trafficking at the ER–mitochondria contact sites thru a non-conventional, unfolded protein response-independent, mechanism https://t.co/ekkuKRdppM In the Year in Cell Biology https://t.co/2EJQw4PsR7 #Cellbio2023
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@AgostinisLab
Agostinis Lab
2 years
Happy to share that our article on the novel role of the ESyt1-PERK axis in lipid trafficking between the ER and mitochondria has been selected among the 11 articles that most interested JCB readers in 2023! 🤩💪 👇👇👇 https://t.co/nLlrKuZfsI
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@SassanoLivia
Maria Livia Sassano
2 years
What an honor to see my PhD work as part of The Year in Cell Biology 2023 collection! @JCellBiol https://t.co/isihk5uwH2 https://t.co/RaZJZTPBy6 Thank you to my PI @AgostinisLab, Blanca Felipe-Abrio and all the collaborators!
@JCellBiol
Journal of Cell Biology
2 years
We're pleased to present The Year in Cell Biology: 2023, our annual collection highlighting some of the most outstanding articles published in the past year in JCB. We hope you enjoy the collection and welcome your feedback! ➡️ https://t.co/2EJQw4Q0GF #Cellbio2023 @ASCBiology
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