This year the ANZSCDB have provided 1 year memberships to all presenters in exchange for a nominal registration fee. This is $10 for posters, and $20 for talks! The cheapest deal in town. Easy to pay from lab funds as a simple registration fee

Registration for attendance will remain free. We have exciting prizes for talks, posters, images and more. This year we are shifting to mid-year to try and avoid end of year meeting fatigue. Please save the date and join us for a fabulous day of science!

Very happy to share our new article of the interaction of mitochondria, innate immunity and viral infections and the relevance for brain &liver disease. Impressive work by Yilin Kang. Thanks Jussi Hepojoki Olli_Vapalahti and all collabs! University of Helsinki Anu Suomalainen-Wartiovaara Lab rdcu.be/dDx2G

📢ANZSCDB Awards 2024 - Nominations Opening Soon Have your entries ready for submission in the coming weeks! We encourage all students, ECRs and emerging/established investigators to renew their membership and apply 🏆 Got someone you'd like to nominate? Let them know today 👇

📢 Nominations for 2024 ANZSCDB Awards have now opened! We are giving away prizes to members of ANY career stage. Entries close 5pm 28th of June. 📷 Featured below is "Cell Cycle Profiling of 3D Tumouroids" from 2023 entrant Horace Chan Monash University

Are you tired of slow gene editing and scattershot targeting? Well no more, here we introduce HyperDriveCas9. An engineered Cas9 variant that is both hyperactive and hyper accurate. doi.org/10.1016/j.crme…

High-fidelity Cas9 variants that prevent off-target cleavage typically reduce on-target activity. Adding TurboCas9 mutations to these enzymes can improve activity while maintaining off-target fidelity. Cell Reports Methods cell.com/cell-reports-m…

New review to read: DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-052621-092014

Read our new study: nature.com/articles/s4225… Treatment of obese mice with small molecule inhibitors of mtDNA transcription (IMTs) leads to marked beneficial metabolic effects. The weight is normalized, the fat deposition in liver disappears and glucose homeostasis is normalized.

Unique architectural features of mammalian mitochondrial protein synthesis 30-day free access to our new review at: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jE3u3QxxSux… Thanks to all the authors for their insightful contributions and our editor for their kind invitation and guidance.

We wrote this to wrap our heads around the role of lipids in organelle communication. This field is growing so exponentially that several new major studies were published in the meanwhile during production. Role of lipids in interorganelle communication sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Illuminating mitochondrial translation through mouse models Human Molecular Genetics academic.oup.com/hmg/article/33… #mitochondria #mtDNA

Very excited to share this work led by Marlous Kamp and the @bondieklab where we managed to visualise fumarate in label free conditions, and at intracellular resolution! congrats to all! nature.com/articles/s4146…

You can read this article by Aleksandra Filipovska for free for the next 50 days at the following link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jNoN3jDgWq3…

Check out our latest pre-print with Hauke Hillen and Ana Vučković, where we show that FASTKD5 joins RNase P and RNase Z in processing mitochondrial RNA. FASTKD5 processes mitochondrial pre-mRNAs at non-canonical cleavage sites biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper from us on the in vivo role of the LRPPRC/SLIRP protein complex and its crucial role in mammalian mtDNA gene expression: academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar… Congratulations Diana Rubalcava for great work! Thank you to all coauthors for a very nice collaboration.

🥳🚨Paper Alert🚨🥳 Excited to present our latest work on #Opa1 in this newly published paper Science Advances by sofia ahola and LilliAPazurek. We present here two new mouse models with impaired Opa1 processing. 1/🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #mitochondria #mitochondrialdynamics MPI for Biology of Ageing

We are excited to announce the 12th ANZSCDB South Australia meeting taking place on October 16, 2024! Join us for insightful talks from McGlinn Lab, Cedric Bardy, and Dr. Lisa Marie Nicholas at Unisa. Don't miss this packed event! #devbio #science #cellbiology

Out today! We find that an epigenetic modification (6mA) to the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) influences lifespan and the heritability of mtDNA mutations to the next generation. It implies that epigenetics determines genetic composition in future offspring. cell.com/cell-metabolis…

Our latest preprint! Some beautiful cell biology in this one. "Presynapses are mitophagy pit stops that prevent axon degeneration" biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Discoveries into the cell biology of of mitophagy in axons, a disease mechanism, and a potential therapeutic avenue. 1/2