Ewa Bomba-Warczak

@ebomba.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania | studying long-lived mitochondrial proteins, organelle stability, mtDNA fidelity in neurons and oocytes www.bombawarczaklab.com

Really thrilled to have our work on mitochondrial presequence strength out today @jcb.org. We establish quantitative parameters to better define "strong" and "weak" presequences both in vitro and in vivo. This work was spearheaded by the ever talented Youmian Yan, a BBSB graduate student in my lab.

Journal of Cell Biology@jcb.org · 7mo ago

Yan, @ianofbristol.bsky.social, @nieminm.bsky.social et al. define quantitative parameters underlying the strength of mitochondrial-targeting presequences, and demonstrate that yeast require strong presequences to facilitate select metabolic pathways in #mitochondria. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

In case you overloaded mitochondria and peroxisomes during your holidays, know that they are talking about it... and our speaker Peter Kim overheard the conversation. This thursday, usual time and place. See you there?

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Hello world! Today’s officially the first day of the lab! It’s an empty space currently only filled with ideas (that I don’t have card access to yet 😂) but I’m excited for the science that will happen here! -JCG

Photo of Jaye Gardiner, a Black woman with long curly black hair, wearing dark green glasses and a coral colored sleeveless top, holding an iPad with the words “Jaye’s 1st day” written largely. Underneath it’s written “as an assistant professor 9/2/2025” although that doesn’t come out as clear in the photo.

My quote of the day "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (Marie Curie) First female Nobelist, 1st person to win 2 Nobels, and only person to win Nobels in 2 scientific fields.