Marta Kovatcheva
@martakova
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Group Leader @IFOMresearch interested in how cell plasticity governs health, aging & disease. Mostly here for the news and the memes. Views are my own.
Milán, Lombardía
Joined April 2011
Hi friends, you can find me at https://t.co/QbpClAeM49 I'll be double-posting everything for now, but I hope together we can move our scientific twitter to bluer pastures 😉
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!!! Cheers to all the strong, brilliant women who inspire me, the men who are true allies, and everyone who refuses to doubt that diversity truly makes us better.
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I am incredibly honored and excited to receive this award, thank you so much to @EACRnews @TheMarkFdn @pezcoller for this opportunity!!
Join us in congratulating @MartaKova (@IFOMresearch) on being selected as the recipient of the 2025 EACR-@TheMarkFdn-@Pezcoller Rising Star Award! Learn more about Marta and the award:
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Great lab, great PI, great city, great institute!!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
We are recruiting. Join us!
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Congratulations to @ValentinaRampo5 for this important, innovative, and visually beautiful work that significantly advances our understanding of the diverse cell states that can emerge in tumors post-therapy 👏🌟 and check out that @CR_AACR cover illustration 🤩❤️😉
I am thrilled to finally share our work on persister cancer cells: we identify distinctive features and actionable #vulnerabilities ⚡️of persister cancer cells (#DTP), and provide mechanistic insight into their low #inflammatory activity: https://t.co/hf5gHbmtq0 👩🔬🧪🔎 ⬇️
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I'm very happy to see these three stories on the use of BH3 profiling as a predictor for senolytic therapies out -- congrats to all the authors!!
Proud to share three papers from our lab https://t.co/GnPbopItBC,
@DrTonyLetai
https://t.co/k2AJAkXK5F, and R. Bernards @NKI_nl
https://t.co/bZbG9CoUGp all showing predictable mitochondrial control of senescent cell death, using BH3 profiling as a biomarker for senolytic therapy
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Ain't no party like an @IFOMresearch Christmas Party! Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all 🎄🎁❄️🌟
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2024 has been truly a "dream come true" year for me, getting to start my own lab at @IFOMresearch. I'm honored to share my reflections on this transition, alongside these 11 other exciting new PIs. Thank you, @NatureCancer, for the opportunity to keep it real 😉
Viewpoint now ONLINE! @NatureCancer ⭐️'The 2024 generation' 🔗 https://t.co/NT6OM8qAon Don't miss this piece where 12 #ECRs who started their #cancerresearch labs in 2024 reflect on the experience so far, including the ups and downs of the journey, and their plans for the future.
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Redacting names on PI applications to see if it could help gender parity. The result? "All five [of 5 open positions] went to women during the study, compared with just one during the earlier period." Implicit bias is very real.
nature.com
Nature - Anonymizing job applications before shortlisting helped to boost the number of women appointed.
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1. I feel like this is such obvious advice that it's taken for granted & so no one says this to young scientists but READ PAPERS, read all the papers. As you move up in your career you'll have a lot less time to do this. Read everything that appeals to you not just in your field
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This the season 🌟🌲🎅🥂🎁🎄🎇 Our first lab holiday party, complete with a hotpot feast, lots of wine, and Secret Santa gifts so thoughtful and perfect, you'd never guess we've all known each other for less than a month ❤️ Excited to see what 2025 will hold for this crew ✨
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What an achievement by @YicsaC 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 this talented group of PhD students and postdocs just published a completely independent, comprehensive, and insightful review on senescence. Please read it and share it widely. Bravo, #yICSA!!!
🎉 Exciting news! The @YicsaC Committee is proud to share our collective review, now published in #npjAging! We offer our perspectives on the latest advances in senescence research and explore exciting directions for the future of the field. 📖 Read here: https://t.co/WDK1YJnBh8
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Mark your calendars!!
Save the date! @marc_dema announced that the next ICSA meeting will be held in Rome, marking the 10th anniversary of the ICSA meetings. Get ready for #ICSARome2025! 🇮🇹
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All the “Manolitos” present in Puerto Varas, Chile, attending ICSA2024 ☺️
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Beautiful views, seafood & meat platters galore, lots of good wine, and even more great science. We're having a blast at #ICSAChile2024 !! @ICSA_senescence
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I'm super happy to kick off this wonderful initiative from @IFOMresearch !! 🍽️🌍👨🏻🍳👩🏻🔬not only do we have talented researchers from all over the world, we have an outstanding team of chefs who really make it a joy to share and learn about each other's roots through food 🫶🏻
At IFOM, our canteen is an agora for exchanging ideas! 🌍 Today, we kick off "Roots & Tastes," celebrating our researchers' cultural diversity with special menus. 🥘 @martakova shares her journey and insights on the power of diversity in research. #CulturalDiversity
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Anyone who knows me, knows I love a good group Halloween costume 🎃 thankfully I managed to get the lab on board 😅. A round of drinks on me next time we see each other for anyone who can name all the types of 🐭 we are!!
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I'm very happy to see our paper out in @embojournal
https://t.co/ShSVIvLOhg Using a CRISPR screen, we find that cylophilin D is a novel #senolytic target, due to its role in buffering excess mitochondrial Ca++ levels. Congrats to all the authors 🥳🥳
embopress.org
imageimageSenescent cells present an excessive flux of Ca2+ from the ER into the mitochondria. This study shows that cyclophilin D increases the survival of senescent cells by mediating a transient...
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