Also, huge thanks to the referees and editorial team over at @embomolmed.org! Professional handling, open dialogue and sound peer review process 💯

New paper alert!🚨CMA is selectively impaired in the RPE of AMD patients, leading to the accumulation of undegraded substrate proteins and increased vulnerability. But it can be targeted pharmacologically!💊 @cib-csic.bsky.social @dgsomucla.bsky.social

EMBO Molecular Medicine@embomolmed.org · 9mo ago

Defective #ChaperoneMediatedAutophagy in the retinal pigment epithelium of #AgeRelatedMacularDegeneration patients By JI Jiménez-Loygorri, D. Ferrington, P. Boya & colleagues at CNIO, Friburg University & UCLA 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s443...

This project has been a huge transatlantic team effort! Special thanks to the Ferrington Lab (Doheny Eye Institute-UCLA), Cuervo Lab (Einstein Med) and all the donors and their families who make research possible. We are in this together! 💪🏻 @womeninautophagy.bsky.social @sefagia.bsky.social

📣 ¡Comienza la #SemanaDeLaCiencia de @universidadoviedo.bsky.social (@uodivulga.bsky.social). Estos días estaré impartiendo distintas ponencias divulgativas por Asturias, acercando el mundo de la investigación a las aulas. #FECYT @ficyt.bsky.social @cienciagob.bsky.social @gobasturias.bsky.social

🐟🔬 Thrilled to announce that our latest research on endosomal microautophagy in trout hepatocytes 🧫 has just been published in Scientific Reports! ✨📘 A big thank you to all co-authors and collaborators for their great work and contributions! 🙌 👉 Read the paper here: rdcu.be/ePcGo

Congratulations to our winners of this year symposium! Amazing talks and wonderful insights into different aspects of autophagy! #WIA2025meeting

The 6th Annual Women in Autophagy Symposium is live! Honoring Beth Levine’s legacy with 1,601 WIA members from 56 countries across 6 continents 🌍. Join the conversation: #WIA2025meeting. Volunteer: www.womeninautophagy.com #WomenInAutophagy #GlobalScience

Post 1/2 🌟 A huge thank you to all the incredible Women in Autophagy volunteers who make the symposium possible! 🙌 Your hard work builds an inspiring global community of scientists. 💜 Want to get involved? www.womeninautophagy.com #WIA2025meeting #WomenInAutophagy #Volunteers

Post 2/2 🌟 A huge thank you to all the incredible Women in Autophagy volunteers who make the symposium possible! 🙌 Your hard work builds an inspiring global community of scientists. 💜 Want to get involved? www.womeninautophagy.com #WIA2025meeting #WomenInAutophagy #Volunteers

Live now at the 2025 WIA Annual Symposium! We are honored to have Dr. Jay Debnath, MD @DebnathLabUCSF kicking off the event with his keynote speech: “Autophagy-dependent proteostasis and breast cancer metastasis.” Excited to learn from his groundbreaking insights. #WIA2025meeting

Live Now: Flash Talk Session 1 🎤✨ 25 inspiring talks highlighting groundbreaking WIA research! 💡 Join our community advancing autophagy: 🌐 Get involved womeninautophagy.com 🙌 Volunteer with us lnkd.in/eexi-rN4 #WIA2025meeting #WomenInAutophagy #WomenInScience

Live now at the 2025 WIA Annual Symposium: Trainee Talks Session I. 🧬 Raffaella Bonavita, PhD from University of Naples Federico II (Italy) presents Evidence of an unprecedented cytoplasmic function of DDX11, the Warsaw breakage syndrome DNA helicase, in regulating autophagy.

🧠Exploring neuroinflammation and autophagy! Floralba Gjergjova, MS, PhD student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (USA), presents her work on "Failure of chaperone-mediated autophagy in T Cells aggravates neuroinflammation in Tauopathies" at #WIA2025meeting

🔬 Discovering new insights in ER-phagy! Thanh Nguyen, MS, (PhD Student) from Baylor College of Medicine (USA) presents her work on "Investigating the role of ER-phagy during injury response and cellular regeneration" #WIA2025meeting

📚 Fascinating research presented by Aravinthkumar Jayabalan, PhD, from the University of New Mexico, USA. #WIA2025meeting

🎤 💪Last talk of the day at #WIA2025meeting! Meagan McGrath, PhD (@MonashUni, Australia) presents: “Autophagic lysosome reformation is essential for muscle glycogen metabolism.”

🌟 What an amazing Day 1 at #WIA2025meeting! Thanks to all our speakers and participants for making it inspiring. 📢 Join us tomorrow for more talks, networking, and discoveries in autophagy! Don’t miss it! 👩‍🔬✨

In less than 30 minutes! Join us for our second day of the 6th Annual Symposium as we features our second keynote speaker, Dr. Marja Jäättelä, as well as wonderful selected oral presentations and flash talks, and a mentoring workshop on research with AI! See you soon!

Women in Autophagy@womeninautophagy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A little bit more than 1 week left before our 6th Annual Symposium! See below for our preliminary agenda in different time zones & register for free today! 👉 forms.office.com/r/vXS654upEX

On LIVE! We started the day with Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo giving another introduction to our WIA community and different committees. Join us for another day of wonderful talks and workshop!

We're excited to introduce WIA-COMPASS, our expanded network for African Scientists! #WIA2025meeting

We're on LIVE featuring our keynote speaker Dr. Marja Jäättelä and her talk on "Lysosomes as targets for cancer therapy". Join us now and hear about her wonderful insights and works on the lysosomes! #WIA2025meeting

Thank you, Mrunmayee Kulkarni, for your wonderful talk on "Regulation of mitophagy during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis"! #WIA2025meeting

Next, we now have Dr. Karolina Pircs giving her talk on "Directly reprogrammed human neurons and astrocytes reveal age-related differences in autophagic regulation"! #WIA2025meeting

We now have Marion Carpentier presenting her work on "Characterization of the pathogenicity of clinical variants of the core autophagy gene ATG7 found in a fetus with brain malformation". Welcome Marion! #WIA2025meeting

We currently have Elena Lavado Fernández presenting her work on "Protective Role of Autophagy in Alcoholic Steatohepatitis". Thank you for sharing your work with us, Elena! #WIA2025meeting

We now have Dr. Katrin Linda presenting her work on how "Neural autophagosomes are transported to astrocytes for degradation". Welcome, Dr. Katrin Linda! #WIA2025meeting

@sefagia.bsky.social is truly special; a welcoming network that feels like a family, making collaboration and sharing enjoyable. It was wonderful to reconnect with everyone and spend three days together, and it was bittersweet to say goodbye until our next meeting. See you next time!

Coming up in less than 5 minutes! Join us for our second flash talk session featuring outstanding autophagy research presented by trainees from across the globe! #WIA2025meeting

Congratulations to the organisers! Really great conference, had a great time! :) 😀

SEFAGIA@sefagia.bsky.social · 9mo ago

To be honest, we are still thinking about #SEFAGIA2025. What a blast… Thank you very, very much to everybody, from the invited speakers to all the sponsors and Orexco for making it possible. See you all in the next one! 🙂

Very proud of Elena Lavado #MacphagyLabRules who presented some of the more recent results in the #WIA2025meeting thank you @womeninautophagy.bsky.social for this great opportunity and wonderful event! #WomenInScience #AutophagyRocks