David Pla Martin
Professor @hhu_de Mitochondrial Biology 🧬 | Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I | mitochondria, mtDNA and mitophagy bit.ly/bumb1
- Hey, science community (whoever is here). Can you please help me amplify this message? Postdoc position available in Düsseldorf!
- Are you interested in a postdoctoral position? Do you have experience in mitochondrial biology and in vivo research? Please send me your CV!
- Hallo @hhu.de, könntest du mir helfen, diese Nachricht weiterzuverbreiten?
- Reposted by David Pla MartinNew Year, new EU goals 🌍 Here are some of our top priorities for 2026 ⬇️
- Reposted by David Pla Martin🎄 Wir wünschen allen, die feiern, frohe und besinnliche Weihnachtstage und schöne Momente im Kreise eurer Liebsten!
- Reposted by David Pla MartinMISO: An MTFP1 interactor that regulates inner mitochondrial membrane fusion and quality control MISO regulates mitochondrial dynamics and mtDNA homeostasis by establishing membrane subdomains | Nature Cell Biology
- We are hiring!. If you hold a PhD in natural science and are passionate about mitochondria, reach out!
- Reposted by David Pla MartinCongratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome! Read the press release here: embo.org/press-releases/twen…
- Reposted by David Pla MartinIm neuen BIOspektrum: Spannendes zur Qualitätskontrolle der Mitochondrien: www.biospektrum.de/system/files... @dplamartin.bsky.social
- Reposted by David Pla Martin🦆 Junge Stud-Ente genießt das Nachtleben auf dem Campus. Danke @mel_nrv für das Foto! 🥰 ^lm
- Reposted by David Pla Martin🌟 Exciting news! Dr. David Pla Martin is joining our Cell & Molecular Biology section as an editorial board member. @dplamartin.bsky.social's work in mitochondrial function, mtDNA, mitochondrial quality, and selective mitophagy will be a fantastic addition. Welcome! 🧬🔋🧫
- Reposted by David Pla MartinNew paper - MAPL strikes again! Interested in mitochondrial signalling, inflammation, lysosome biology, pyroptosis, and Parkinson's disease? Have a look, there's something for everyone! Feeling grateful! @mitocollier.bsky.social Funded by #CIHR, @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org. rdcu.be/eKKz1 🇨🇦
- Reposted by David Pla MartinProtein complex, the retromer, promotes recycling/disposal of damaged mitochondrial DNA 📷 Parisa Kakanj & Mari Bonse et al @dplamartin.bsky.social lab University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany in @science.org Science Advances ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with @rooph.bsky.social
- Reposted by David Pla MartinSmall molecules restore mutant mitochondrial DNA polymerase activity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by David Pla MartinWhat a lovely paper from @dplamartin.bsky.social and his team! Mechanistic insight to mtDNA turnover at the lysosomes. 📬
- Excited to share our latest paper in Science Advances! We finally dissected a new pathway for mitochondrial quality control upon mtDNA replication stress! Let’s start a short thread! 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Excited to share our latest paper in Science Advances! We finally dissected a new pathway for mitochondrial quality control upon mtDNA replication stress! Let’s start a short thread! 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- We started with SplitTurboID between mitochondria and endosomes to find out the proximity proteome upon mtDNA stress…
- Who was there? Vesicle proteins! Lysosomes! Mitochondria matrix proteins! How?
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View full threadWTH… is VPS35 the next candidate to fight mitochondrial dysfunction? I just leave it here…
- Are u tired of reading about tariffs? Then take a look to our last work! @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Tomorrow will be a good day! I can’t wait to show you what we have…
- A novel pathomechanism connected to mtDNA-mediated inflammation for CMT2A www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/6/...
- Being a PI is hard, we have to deal with one rejection after another, hours of work amounting to nothing because someone thinks our ideas aren’t cool enough. But then, suddenly, you get a yes! And life shines again. Thanks, @dfg.de , for your support!
- Reposted by David Pla MartinI'm super happy that our story is now published! 📖 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... But what changed compared to the original preprint? Also, I feel i should post Movie 1 🎥, that inspired the cover. Back when I did the original bluesky thread, movies were not available.
- Reposted by David Pla MartinWhoa - are a significant proportion of sporadic ALS/motor neuron disease cases a mitochondrial DNA disease?! #mitochondria www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by David Pla MartinBig news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
- Great job! Many have tried, many have failed.
- Engineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Engineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reposted by David Pla MartinEngineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reposted by David Pla MartinmtDNA goes places, and sometimes nucleoids end up in stressful situations. Our next speaker @lauraenewmanphd.bsky.social is keeping an eye (or two) on this, and will tell us all about it. This week, usual time and place.
- Reposted by David Pla MartinToday is Rare disease day! There are over 6000 rare diseases that present with a variety of symptoms affecting all organs. Although we call them rare, they affect over 300 millions of individuals world-wide. Help raise awareness, so we, scientists, can search for cures.
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- Are you curious about how motile our mitochondrial genomes are 🧬? Live-cell nucleoid data inspired us to discuss exciting ideas from the field with amazing @isimolinar.bsky.social and Verónica Eisner in our new opinion at TCB 🤩! Here is a free-access link authors.elsevier.com/c/1keJq3QxxS....
- Reposted by David Pla MartinAre you curious about how motile our mitochondrial genomes are 🧬? Live-cell nucleoid data inspired us to discuss exciting ideas from the field with amazing @isimolinar.bsky.social and Verónica Eisner in our new opinion at TCB 🤩! Here is a free-access link authors.elsevier.com/c/1keJq3QxxS....
- Dual regulation of mitochondrial fusion by Parkin–PINK1 and OMA1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Putting the brakes on mitochondrial fusion to prevent escape of mitochondrial DNA www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by David Pla Martin🚀 Excited to share our latest work on Mrx6 and mtDNA copy number regulation, now available on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social ! We uncover how Mrx6 and Mam33 interact with the Lon protease Pim1 to control substrate degradation. 🔬 Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #mitochondria #mtDNA
- Reposted by David Pla MartinSuch a great pleasure to host @dplamartin.bsky.social at UoB! A day full of cool science about #mitochondria, #endosomes and #mtDNA! Thank you for the visit!
- Lovely visit to @unibirmingham.bsky.social . Thanks to my host @sofiaahola.bsky.social and to the best campus tour guide possible @jonwolfmueller.bsky.social. See you soon!
- Lovely visit to @unibirmingham.bsky.social . Thanks to my host @sofiaahola.bsky.social and to the best campus tour guide possible @jonwolfmueller.bsky.social. See you soon!
- On way ✈️ to Birmingham! So excited to meet @sofiaahola.bsky.social and to show these guys our last research!
- Reposted by David Pla MartinTime for some mito-business. Or should we say methyl-business?? Let's ask our speaker Thomas MacVicar. This thursday, usual time and place.
- Reposted by David Pla MartinThanks to Désirée Schatton and Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social for the great News and Views @naturecancer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- Reposted by David Pla MartinFine-tuning tumor immunogenicity with mitochondrial complex I Our views on a very cool paper from @ppuigserverb.bsky.social we hope you like it! www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- Reposted by David Pla MartinA cell photographed through a microscope. The powerhouses/overlords of the cell, mitochondria (pink), the Golgi apparatus (blue), and the actin filament cytoskeleton (orange) are shown. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #microscopy
- “We're pleased to inform you that the editors are interested in publishing your paper; however….” I got too excited too quick
- Reposted by David Pla MartinWith two complete starter packs (in my profile), here is a 3rd one for the ever-growing metabolism community. Please contact me if you are working (prerequisite) on metabolism and want to be included here; there is still some space. I will keep updating it. go.bsky.app/7Uwa6fbat://did:plc:mklo35zasunpbla4ipbtfafk/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lehqe4sx2p2p
- Reposted by David Pla MartinLet's make 2025 the "Year of the Mitochondria," to stimulate more research for mitochondrial and other diseases, incite curiosity and commitment from funders to invest in mitochondria as the heart of health and a key to solving resistant diseases and conditions. @MitoWorld.org / Image: Rehman Lab
- Reposted by David Pla MartinFor all the metabolism lovers, we are excited (our recent manuscript) to demonstrate that mitochondrial apolipoprotein MIC26 is a metabolic rheostat regulating central cellular fuel pathways! www.life-science-alliance.org/content/7/12...
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- Reposted by David Pla MartinTHUNDEROUS APPLAUSE
- I will not hide my inner convictions anymore. Be the change you want to see in the world ! #AcademicSky 🧪
- Reposted by David Pla MartinOn the cover #MolecularCell. In this issue Acharya and Demetriades show how #mTORC1 🎈activation mediates its own release from the #lysosomes 🪐🌎. It was my pleasure to bring to life the grand idea from Aishwarya and Costas!
- Reposted by David Pla MartinIf your are having issues receiving strains from the CGC in Europe, this can really help,…Launch of the European Hub for CGC strain distribution community.alliancegenome.org/t/european-s...
- Reposted by David Pla MartinStressed mitochondrial RNA granules from our recent work on the cover of PNAS! A photo by E. Recazens illustrating our new story led by M. Foged on the cytosolic control of mitochondrial RNA processing and innate immunity by #N6AMT1. #mitochondria #dsRNA
- Reposted by David Pla MartinI am very excited to share this preprint led by Cissy Yong. 🧪 This study shows how tumour sampling conditions during surgery can alter the metabolic profile of ccRCC tissues, with major research implications #Metabolomics (now with the correct link) www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
- Reposted by David Pla Martin🔬 Curious about #mitochondria #imaging but unsure where to begin? Our review might help! 🚀📜🧪 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #Quantitative #Microscopy #SuperResolution #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #CellBiology #mtDNA
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- Reposted by David Pla MartinMitochondria Regulate the Cell Fate Decisions of Megakaryocyte-Erythroid Progenitors
- Reposted by David Pla MartinWe strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
- Reposted by David Pla MartinHi all! We’re excited to see this community grow. One of our main goals is to highlight the work and voices of women in mitochondrial research. Please tag us in any relevant posts so we can help to amplify these contributions!!
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by David Pla MartinI didn't post it on the day of, but I did have my TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY at Nature Methods last week. 🥳 My benchwork and the tools I made are the professional legacy of my twenties. My work at the journal is the legacy of my thirties. No big plans for change, but I do ponder what the future holds.
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- Reposted by David Pla MartinRecycling for #fluorescencefriday
- One of my favourite videos that deserves to be here also. Mitochondria and mtDNA on the move!
- Reposted by David Pla MartinHappy to have my first post on this site be to share the news that our amazing student Alia will be presenting her work on mitochondrial fission at MitoChats Thursday (10am US central time)! Be sure to check it out!
- MITOtalks have not made it here (yet) but we are excited to host two fantastic trainee talks this week on MITOchats - Alia Edington from Friedman lab at UTSW and David Eberhardt from Chaudhuri at UUtah - visit www.mitotalks.org for more info and zoom link to join! #mitochondria please share!
- Reposted by David Pla MartinCheck out our new quick guide in @currentbiology.bsky.social, all about Mitochondrial Nucleoids! t.co/QFTQrevZNu
- Reposted by David Pla MartinHey new followers! I'm Sam, a PI at UC Berkeley 🧪🔬🧬 My lab investigates how genetic information flows through dynamic mitochondrial networks to support metabolism. We focus on mitochondrial genome replication and expression, using quantitative imaging, genetics, and systems approaches 💙
- It looks like science is moving here. I should start posting more…
- Check out this beautiful work. Have you ever wondered what happen to mitochondria cristae when you use mitochondrial drugs? You have never seen such detailed ultra structure! www.life-science-alliance.org/content/7/2/...
