We’re excited to share that also this year, we’ve offset CO2 emissions for all travel grants awarded to our early career researchers in 2025! 🌱 The CRC1218 is committed to fostering scientific progress while protecting the planet🌍 #SustainableScience #ScienceForTheFuture

🌟 Exciting Kick-off for our Female Mentoring Program! 🌟 Last Friday our mentees kicked off their journey with a hands-on workshop, learning the core principles of effective mentoring and how to build an independent, impactful mentoring relationship. 💪✨  #WomenSupportingWomen #FemaleMentoring

A publication rarity these days: An author list significantly shorter than the paper title! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations to our Advanced PostDoc Grant Awardee, Qiaochu Li (@qiaochuli.bsky.social), for her discoveries published in NCB [see thread]:

Congratulation also to the @riemerlab.bsky.social who just identified FAM136A as a new substrate of the mitochondrial disulphide relay and its implementations in IMS proteostasis and cellular fitness. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

👉Paper alert👈 Check out the latest read from the Schwarz lab: Fu and Kohl identify persulfidation loss and hydrogen sulfide release as consequence of full-body SOX-deficiency in mice. Congratulations to everybody involved!👏 www.jci.org/articles/vie...

📣Publication alert📣 A wonderful collaborative effort of the CRC 1218: The lab of Mafalda Escobar-Henriques reveals that C-terminally extended ubiquitin (CxUb) is essential for mitophagy, proteostasis and longevity through a previously undefined CxUb-Ufd2 axis. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A big thank you to Thomas Splettstößer for leading an insightful Adobe Illustrator workshop on visual communication in science for our PhDs & PostDocs! We’re excited to apply what we’ve learned! 🙌 #AdobeIllustrator #VisualCommunication #Science #WorkshopSuccess

Publication alert! Congratulations to everybody involved in this collaborative effort👏

🌟 What an incredible event! Amazing location & fantastic science. 🌟 Our Graduation Symposium PhDone last Friday was a great success! Huge thanks to our speakers for their insightful and emotional presentations, and to everyone for the valuable networking. #ECR #mitoCRC #PhDone

What an exciting step in the careers of Camilla Franchino, Deniz Savcigil and Sandrina Campos Macas, who just joined our Mentoring Program! Promoting career advancement and professional development through impactful networking. We wish you a successful journey!👩‍🔬🚀 #CareerDevelopment #WomenEmpowerment

🚴 This. was. great! 🚴‍♀️ In this year‘s #CityCycling, the #mitoCRC made it into the #Top10 of the Uniclinis, which was the best team in all of Cologne! Well done! We are really impressed by all the #sustainability enthusiasts around us! Photo: Our youngest team member😍 #Stadtradeln #Köln #Klimaschutz

What an outstanding achievement by our #mitoRTG member Annamaria Regina, (@annamariaregina.bsky.social‬)! We are extremely proud of your #passion and engagement in #ScienceCommunication! #FameLab

📣Lecture Announcement📣 Join us: Next Monday, the CRC 1218 and the CRC 1403, will host an interactive lecture on #ResearchDataManagement - "Folders and File Names 101: Because organising data can be hard". Don't miss it: 🗓️ 23.06. at 10 AM 📍CECAD Lecture Hall @sfb1403.bsky.social #datascience

🏆We are extremely proud of our Vice Spokesperson Prof. Aleksandra Trifunovic who just received the Max Delbrück Award 2025 of @unicologne.bsky.social‬. A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding scientific achievements. Congrats!🎉 ▶️ youtu.be/ayE9q9nKvyc #mitochondria #lifescience #UniKöln

Congratulations to our mitoCRC project leader Prof. Jens Brüning on receiving the University Award 2024 in the category of Research of @unicologne.bsky.social in recognition of his exceptional scientific achievements!

Big congratulations to the three awardees of our mitoCRC Advanced PostDoc Grant! We're thrilled to support Dr. Qiaochu Li, Dr. @aleksandra-zecic.bsky.social and Dr. Andromachi in their first steps toward an independent research line. Well-deserved success! 🎉 #mitochondria #PostDoc #womeninscience

In their Review, Eleonora Zilio, Elena Rugarli and colleagues @cecad.bsky.social @crc1218.bsky.social discuss the role of mitochondrial mRNA translation in cellular communication. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #JCSMitoSI #Mitochondria

🚴‍♂️ mitoCRC joins #Stadtradeln 2025! From June 11–July 1, we’re cycling for climate & health – and challenging @crc1678.bsky.social & CRC 1403! Join our team “CRC 1218 – mitoCRC” (under Gesunde Uniklinik) and help us pedal to victory! 🌍💪 🔗 Register: www.stadtradeln.de/koeln #BikeForClimate #mitoCRC

In recognition of his key role in the #mitoCRC and his valuable skill set, we’ve awarded our talented PostDoc Robert Düster a Family Support Grant! We hope to support the reconciliation of work and family life to better promote young talents in science. #mitoResearch #Equality #FamiliesInScience

📢Registration open!📢 So proud to see our very own Elisa Motori co-hosting this exciting EMBO Workshop: “Mitochondria in the Nervous System” Co-sponsored by the CRC1218! Two invited speakers of the CRC1218! Don’t miss out! 🗓 29.09.-02.10.2025 📍Engelberg, CH 👉 meetings.embo.org/event/25-mit...

👩‍🔬mito-RTG at KölnerKinderUni👨‍🔬 The mitoRTG hosted 2 workshops at the KölnerKinderUni! Future scientists aged 8 to 12 learned in hands-on experiments how the uniqueness of individuals is encoded in the DNA🧬 A big thank you to Lara, Lilli and Eileen for making it all happen! #KKU2025 #ScienceForKids

🌟The mitoRetreat 2025 was a huge success🌟 Great science, inspiring feedback, fantastic networking, and outstanding performances from our young researchers. The perfect weather truly reflected the retreat’s success☀️ A big thank you to all participants for making it unforgettable! #Research #SFB1218

📣👨‍🔬Publication alert!👨‍🔬📣 Check out this interesting review on mitochondrial protein import stress, co-written by our mitoCRC member Prof. Thomas Becker! Recently published in @naturecellbiology.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #mitochondria #mitoCRC

📢🚨The mitoCRC calls for applications for an Advanced PostDoc grant.🚨📢 The grant aims at supporting advanced PostDocs in Cologne on their way to an independent research line in the field of #mitochondria. A prior association to the #mitoCRC is not necessary to apply. #postdoc #science