Roberto Zoncu
@robertozoncu
Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology @ UC Berkeley
robertozonculab.org
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30-07-2018 18:38:41
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Congrats to MCB's James Olzmann on his promotion to Full Professor! James Olzmann 🥂🎉mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-event…
Brown fat is a cool system for learning new about mitochondria. Choline is an important nutrient, and its metabolism involves import into the mitochondrial matrix. How does Choline get there? Check out our new paper by Tony Verkerke and colleagues! cell.com/cell-metabolis…
biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Our new preprint by Ashley Segura ashley segura and Rose Citron dissects a deep connection between autophagy and PKA in neuronal signaling, with implications for neurological disease. Great collaboration with Mancias Lab!
We’ve worked out how the molecular machines that create acidic compartments can recruit autophagy (self-eating) machinery when they can’t maintain a pH gradient. We are really pleased with this discovery, out in Molecular Cell cell.com/molecular-cell…. 1/16
1/Out today @nature, a paper from Divya Bezwada and DeBerardinis Lab Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern about metabolism in human clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). Divya identified an unexpected metabolic change that allows these tumors to metastasize. 🧵below.-RJD nature.com/articles/s4158…
I am very proud of the superstar postdoc Haojun Yang, who discovered how to translation control underlying fasting and ketogenic diet in health and cancer. nature.com/articles/s4158…
Researchers David Shackelford, Roberto Zoncu + Rushika M. Perera are using advanced techniques to track interactions inside cells. Here you can see mitochondria (🟢) + lysosomes (🔴) interact, they impact cell health, behavior & survival.
Excited to teach this innovative class with Dan Nomura and Fyodor Urnov . Enrollment 50% up from last year’s first edition. Passion for drug discovery runs deep UC Berkeley!
Great opportunity to join an amazing community of scientists, colleagues and friends in the Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Division of UC Berkeley MCB !