Raluca Groza

Glad to see my PhD work from the @ewers_helge lab out now in @NatureComms. Check it out if you want to know more about the biophysics behind lipid-mediated endocytosis.

Openings for a Group Leader position and a Postdoctoral Fellowship with @KoplevS at @scilifelab ! Find out more and apply: scilifelab.se/career/postdoc… #GroupLeader #LifeSciences #Genomics

Our lab has an open postdoctoral position. Work in the lab ranges from trafficking of neuronal cargoes to developing gene editing therapeutics for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. I'm looking for the right person, project is flexible. Please apply immediately. roylab.org

Visualizing suborganellar lipid distribution using correlative light and electron microscopy | Nature Cell Biology nature.com/articles/s4155…

Trachsel-Moncho, Simonsen et al. identify the endosomal protein SNX10 as a modulator of piecemeal #mitophagy of OXPHOS machinery components and mitochondrial homeostasis. hubs.la/Q046m_df0 📕Part of #Autophagy 2026 👉 hubs.la/Q046mRVN0 #GRC

Emerging mechanisms of genome degradation during the mtDNA life cycle | Nature Cell Biology nature.com/articles/s4155…

We’ve trained a multimodal AI model to turn routine pathology slides into spatial proteomics, with the potential to reduce time and cost while expanding access to cancer care.

Fluorescent proteins with a quantum upgrade could offer unprecedented views inside cells - the next big thing in biology? go.nature.com/4lbXWmB

Wild new Nature paper showing how gut immune cells may initiate and propagate Parkinson’s pathology. Intestinal macrophages can carry misfolded α-synuclein, trigger T-cell responses, and help drive spread from gut → brain. Big implications for “body-first” Parkinson’s and early intervention. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Brief walk in the lab

Today we share a technical report demonstrating how our drug design engine achieves a step-change in accuracy for predicting biomolecular structures, more than doubling the performance of AlphaFold 3 on key benchmarks and unlocking rational drug design even for examples it has never seen before. Head to the comments to read our blog.

Today we celebrate the brilliant women who are shaping the future of #LifeSciences! Hundreds of brilliant women supported by #HFSP, leading #FrontierResearch across disciplines and borders🌍 To all of you: Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #WomenInScience

Can we make brains “smarter”? By boosting mitochondrial metabolism in neurons of memory circuits, we improved memory in flies and mice. Thrilled to see this work out - congrats to @AmrapaliAnjali for spectacular work, and to lab and collaborators for invaluable contributions!

Travelling to the future again. This thursday, we will be nosy and learn about mitochondria and their friendships.

@Nature so the training data contains all the scientific papers, right? including the ones containing fake or irreproducible data? also, AI’s use a lot of info from Reddit. Off to a good start for sure.

The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next go.nature.com/4qXTMRA

SOD1 is delivered to #lysosomes via #autophagy to maintain lysosomal function and integrity. From Yanzhe Zheng, Ruilin Tian, Yan Zhao and colleagues: hubs.la/Q040NcBk0 📕 Part of #Autophagy 2026 👉 hubs.la/Q040NcvH0 #KSAutophagy26

Thinking about remodeling? Mitochondria do that too... and our speaker knows all about it. This thursday, usual time and place. See you there?

Our new paper on reassessing the heritability of human lifespan is out in @ScienceMagazine! 🧬 For decades, the consensus has been that genetics explains just 20–25% of lifespan differences. We found that after accounting for extrinsic mortality, that number jumps to ~50%. A 🧵

AlphaGenome is out in @nature today along with model weights! 🧬 📄 Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… 💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepmin… Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We sat down @googledeepmind to discuss the story behind the model, paper & API: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc

Looking forward to sharing our latest exciting results 😊