Merve Yigit

@merveyigit.bsky.social

PhD student in Sendoel Lab | eIF2A | skin cancer | RNA biology | Translation

PhDone 🥳🎓 The last few years was full of successes, failures, ups and downs, but also full of amazing people, countless talks, great conferences, incredible science and endless support from my supervisor and my thesis committee. Thanks to all people who helped me in this amazing journey! #eIF2A

Sendoel Lab@sendoellab.bsky.social · last yr.

The summer of defenses continues, huge congratulations Dr. Yigit for a superbly delivered talk and an excellent defense!

I’m thrilled to share my very first first-author preprint and our lab’s latest work💫 We discovered a novel role for eIF2A in ribosome-associated quality control (RQC), challenging decades-old assumptions about its enigmatic function in translation initiation. Check it out to learn more! ⭐️ #RNA

Sendoel Lab@sendoellab.bsky.social · last yr.

Identified in the 1970s, the precise molecular function of the alternative initiation factor eIF2A has remained unclear. Here, we map its interactome and uncover a surprising role in ribosome-associated quality control (RQC) upon ribosome stalling. 1/x www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...