
Itika Saha
33 posts

Itika Saha
@Itikasaha
Science is fun! Postdoc @ MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany.


A team led by Ulrich Hartl found out that the protein GCN1 helps to secure the "accident site" after two #ribosomes collided and calls other complexes to degrade the defective #mRNA @CellCellPress ❕ press release biochem.mpg.de/can-we-promote… ❕ full article cell.com/cell/fulltext/…








The AAA+ chaperone VCP disaggregates Tau fibrils and generates aggregate seeds in a cellular system nature.com/articles/s4146…

It was quite a ride to pick the LS1 @ERC_Research #ERCCoG 2022 grantees from such a great group of people so HUGE congratulations to: @ruferbus , @DoraTang5 , @Hashemyaser4 , @LaineElodie , @LandauMeytal , @TzviyaZBM , @YiliangDing and Stefano Pagliara (@LSI_Exeter) !!!! 🥳











Congratulations to Niko Dalheimer who just received the GBM master award at the University of Kaiserslautern! He explored that and how the yeast cytosol can store mitochondrial precursor proteins. An exciting discovery. This prize is well deserved!




