A 3rd new article: the teams of Laura Lackner (Norhtwestern) and Tom Burgoyne (UCL) jointly review zones of contact between mitochondria and the plasma membrane across a wide variety of organisms, speculating on unknowns and discussing unanswered questions journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Another new article: Ida J. van der Klei and colleagues (Groningen) show the Pex23 family of ER proteins with dysferlin domains have unexpected roles in aspects of lipid droplet function that are suppressed by an artificial ER-mitochondrion tether. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We have a new article from Emma Fenech, Maya Schuldiner & co. (Weizmann, Rehovot) on the yeast LAM family of sterol transfer proteins. They use proximity labeling to compare all 6 proteins, finding unique functions for paralogs and new functional links. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Contact across kingdoms: Rickettsia Parker intracellular parasites sit in the cytoplasm and form stable contacts with the endoplasmic reticulum.

Contact is here at last #firstpost. 2025 also sees us adding a strapline to our title. Instead of one pithy word, we have 5 more: Contact: The Journal of Inter-Organelle Communication We look forward to sharing new of progress in this scientific field in general and for the journal specifically.