
Tiago Branco Fonseca
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Tiago Branco Fonseca
@FonsecaBranco
Postdoc in @MencacciLab @NU; Former PhD in @LabScorrano. #Mitoaficionado, #Organelles, #Neuro #sports









Last year I joined the communication committee of Department of Biology, University of Padova, assigned in Twitter/X team. I am happy that we could attract ~100 new followers, and reached to 2k now! Are you following us? Why not?!









☕️NEW: Singh & co show that fasting or lipid availability stimulates mTORC2 activity in the liver, leading to phosphorylation of NDRG1 and NDRG1–CDC42-mediated mitochondrial fission. rdcu.be/dfOio nature.com/articles/s4155…

How we think and talk about mitochondria matters to our science and to newcomers in the field. The powerhouse analogy is expired and we need specific vocabulary to capture the beautiful complexity of mitochondrial biology. We propose a framework and some nomenclature.


Online Now: The mitochondrial intermembrane space protein mitofissin drives mitochondrial fission required for mitophagy dlvr.it/Sp46Fn




