Alessandra Boletta
Head of Unit @SanRaffaele Milan, Italy | Past Director, Div. Genetics and Cell Biology | Alumna @JHMI, Baltimore, USA | Marie Curie Excellence Team leader | ERCAdvG
Cell Biologist with interest in renal disorders #PKD #Cilia #Cancermetabolism
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- PKD disease of the month! We were asked to summarize PKD in 2000words+bullets 😰 hope it is ok thanks to wonderful infographics from Sara Clerici! Thanks 🙏 @cp-trendsmolecmed.bsky.social for inviting us
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- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaSave the date! March 2027 on beautiful lake Maggiore right outside #Milan, are you ready for #Cilia2027? 🥳 Stay tuned for more info!
- We have an open #ERC funded PhD position to work on #cilia #mitochondria #PKD and #matabolism Deadline July 7th. Look forward to welcoming a talented PhD student to our lab in beautiful Milan 👇
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- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaToday "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism" —the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing —from decades of NIH funded research www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
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- Reposted by Alessandra Boletta🎉 Huge congratulations to Susan Dutcher @dutcherlab.bsky.social on her election to the National Academy of Sciences! A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding contributions to cell biology and cilia research. 👏🔬 #WomenInSTEM #Cilia
- Major congratulations to our fearless leader and team captain Susan Dutcher @dutcherlab.bsky.social for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🙌 Another big win for #cilia biology!!
- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaMajor congratulations to our fearless leader and team captain Susan Dutcher @dutcherlab.bsky.social for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🙌 Another big win for #cilia biology!!
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- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaA week until our 51st @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-symposium: 15/04/2025 15:00-17:15 BST. Still not registered for the series- join us here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... Free and open to all! /1
- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaDear cilia researchers, join us in the heart of the beautiful Vosges mountains to share your latest findings! This year, partnership with @for5547.bsky.social and keynote lectures by @micromotility.bsky.social and @mick-lab.bsky.social Registration is now open www.cfc2025.conferences-pasteur.org
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- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaLooking for a home for your #cilia submission? Still time to be part of this special issue of the Journal of Cell Science- the journal for the cell biology community, by the cell biology community! ⏰ Reach out to @lottepedersen.bsky.social or I to discuss....
- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaTowards community-driven visual proteomics! Excited to finally share this large-scale curated & annotated dataset of 1829 high-quality #cryoET tomograms of the little green alga that just keeps giving— Chlamydomonas! 🧪🧶🧬🌾🌊🌍 Preprint📜: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread🧵👇
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- In L.A. heading to Ventura Beach for the #GRC on #mitochondria. Excited to share our long-standing work on mitochondria in #PKD and our more recent discovery of the cross-talk between #cilia and #mitochondria @erc.europa.eu
- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaHow many cells do you need to establish PCP? The magic number is 3! Beautiful work by Lena Basta in Danelle Devenport's lab. Happy to have contributed. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Alessandra Boletta1/Happy to share a new paper reporting a metabolic approach to radiosensitization in lung cancer, from Rachel Chiang, Faith Zhang and colleagues at UT Southwestern Radiation Oncology and @cri-utsw.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaMore good news: MEP Christian Ehler's ITRE report adopted by the European Parliament: strong support for an expanded and independent ERC. Happy with the proposal of €220 billion for the EU's next research framework programme! Thank you! Press briefing multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
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- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaThrilled- the @bsdb.bsky.social medal in Wolpert's name marks 'vastly important contributions to research in our field, but also to the communication of its problems to a broader audience'. Communicating the importance of our research has never been more important when science is under such threat!
- We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 Wolpert medal is Pleasantine Mill! bsdb.org/2025/03/05/2...
- Michael Caplan and myself have put together a thorough review on #PKD. We worked for over a year with multiple calls, long discussions, writing and re-writing…intense and fun! Hope the outcome is appreciable, final version in prep pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39938884/
- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaDo you LOVE organelles?? Well I am THRILLED to announce that Nellie has been published in @naturemethods.bsky.social! Nellie a fully automated pipeline for organelle segmentation, tracking, and hierarchical feature extraction in 2D, 3D, timelapse, multichannel live-cell microscopy 🧵1/N
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- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaInterested in primary #cilia, #microtubules, #protein trafficking, molecular #signaling, #GPCRs, and #ciliopathies? We are looking for a #postdoc and a #PhDstudent to apply advanced #biochemistry and #proteomics methods to study cilia. Check out our website and send your application until March 10.
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- Congratulations to Max Liebau 👏 and colleagues for a breakthrough study defining a risk score to predict kidney survival in ARPKD patients 👏 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39922379/
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- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaImmagine you could image two cellular structures in the same fluorescent channel and still reliably get them separated afterwards… What would you do with this? Now… what would you do if that also worked with 4 structures at once? 👇 #MicroSplit #preview🧵
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- Reposted by Alessandra BolettaThe world is full of crazy and sad news, but here is a protein that localizes to only one of the two flagella
