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Juan Zapata-Muñoz
@juanzapatamunoz.bsky.social

Postdoc working on Mitophagy and Parkinson at University of Dundee, UK - Ian Ganley Lab. (He/him)

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4747-920X
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🧠 🔬 Presentamos el Manifiesto por la Investigación del Cerebro, una llamada a situar a España a la vanguardia de la revolución neurocientífica.

Invertir en el conocimiento del cerebro es invertir en salud, innovación y futuro. (1/4)

#ManifiestoNeurociencia #Neurociencia

@conchilillo.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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⚠️SAVE THE DATE⚠️

🧠CAJAL CONFERENCE 2026 
📍Cádiz, April 15–17

“Novel Insights into Brain Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease”

Join an outstanding lineup of keynote speakers!👇🏻
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Less than 3 days left until the our 6th Annual Symposium Webinar!

Registration is still open — it’s completely free and open to everyone!

Register today to explore the amazing autophagy research happening across our global community!

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November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Attention membrane traffickers! I'm recruiting a post-doc to my lab in Dundee. We're dissecting the functions of intrinsically disordered domains of COPII coat proteins. We think they control timing of coat assembly and morphology of carriers.

www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...
Postdoctoral Research Assistant - MCDB - UOD2016
Closing date: Thursday 6 November 2025, 23:59
www.dundee.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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What's in yer basement?
October 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! 🚨
Interested in lysosomes, Parkinson’s disease, cell biology, microscopy — or all of the above? Come work with us at the Bonet-Ponce Lab!
Reach out directly: [email protected]
Learn more: bonetponcelab.com
Let’s chat!
October 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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🚀 The WIA Communications Committee is looking for new volunteers!

Love website design, content creation, or social media? Want to make an impact and connect with amazing scientists? 🌟 Join us and help boost WIA’s online presence!

💌Interested? Email us at [email protected]
September 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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New week, new tool: Find our Protein Domain Designer tool to generate publication-ready protein domain diagrams here: domaindesigner.farnunglab.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The future is visiting again! We are seeking applicants for the 7th season of MITOchats. Deadline for submission is October 17th. Visit www.mitotalks.org for details or submit your application at forms.gle/5D6vWE92yYCi...
September 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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📣 28/9 Concentraciones en Madrid, Barcelona y Valencia. 🗣️ La ciencia no se firma, se financia.

😡 No queremos pactos vacíos, exigimos hechos.

#CumplidYaLoPactado

📃 Pacto completo aquí fji.precarios.org/un-nuevo-pac...
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Exciting chance to pursue your PhD in Madrid! 🍀🔬🧪
We are hiring!! 🧫🔬🥼
We are looking for a motivated student to join our lab with a FPI PhD contract. #fpi #phd
September 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Position available! Team @mito911.bsky.social needs a new scientific program manager to take over from legendary super-PM @doroteaartscience.bsky.social, who is moving on to bigger things. This is a Berkeley-based position. Apply at aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05103.
September 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Celebrating Postdoc Research – National Postdoc Appreciation Week 2025!

#PostdocAppreciationWeek #PostdocResearch #CIMR #MBU #Cambridge #ResearchSeminar #ScienceCommunication #CambridgeUniversity
September 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Don’t Miss the Spanish Society of Cell Biology (SEBC) Meeting 2025!
📍 Santiago de Compostela
📅 October 21–24, 2025

👉 Register now at sebc2025.org to:

Secure your discounted registration

Apply for fellowships covering the registration fee (available for junior researchers!)
July 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Very exciting opportunity here to work with former member of our group and rising star @andrea-loreto.bsky.social Highly recommended!
August 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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CRN Team Hurley determined the cryo-electron microscopy structure of the human ULK1C core at amino-acid-level resolution. They examined the ULK1C core in complex with another autophagy core complex, the class III PI3KC3-C1.

🔗 Read the full #publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41594-025-01557-x
August 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Join us! Research Technician position available with Dario Alessi www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/careers/recr...
Research Technician | MRC PPU
We study how eukaryotic cell biology is shaped by protein phosphorylation and ubiquitylation. Driven by our curiosity and passion to understand living creatures, our work aims to change lives by helpi...
www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk
July 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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A must-read for anyone in mitochondria research!

Journal of Cell Science has released a Special Issue on the Cell Biology of Mitochondria - articles, reviews, and expert insights covering dynamics, disease, and more!

View our summary mitoworld.org/special-issu...
Special Issue: Cell Biology of Mitochondria - MitoWorld
The special issue of Journal of Cell Science (JCS) on the “Cell Biology of Mitochondria” looks to be one of the most comprehensive open series of papers, opinions, perspectives, interviews, reviews an...
mitoworld.org
May 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Parkinson’s disease is the fastest growing neurodegenerative condition.

Now researchers have a powerful new tool, thanks to a collaboration with @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org. Parkinson’s data is now available on the free and open ABC Atlas.

🧠 alleninstitute.org/news/a-new-v...
Collaboration Expands Research Tool to Help Crack the Code on Parkinson’s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases
A new view of Parkinson’s disease
alleninstitute.org
July 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Your sleep pressure is powered by your mitochondria! Sleep, energy, and ageing are all connected through mitochondrial bioenergetics in neurons. Brilliant work from Gero Miesenböck’s lab, just out in Nature @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Looking forward to attending this fantastic meeting! 🔥
ABSTRACTS CLOSE 18 July!

The 11th International Symposium on Autophagy 2025
📅 16–20 November 2025 | Lorne, Victoria, Australia

Registration: isa11.org

We have a fantastic line-up of speakers and a wide range of topics focused on the fascinating world of autophagy.
July 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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#CIBpapers

A team from @cib-csic.bsky.social discovered that deferiprone, used to eliminate excess iron in the body, protects retinal #photoreceptor cells from degeneration. 

🔗https://f.mtr.cool/lsxdqioyig
June 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM