🎉🎉🎉 Our work on Cancer Neuroscience and Mitochondria Transfer has been selected as a runner-up for the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year by @science.org ! I am deeply honored by this recognition and grateful to our team and collaborators who made this possible. Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fresh batch of Hot Plasmids here! Find new tools for: 🧠 Neural cell-surface proteomics 🔋 Nerve-to-cancer mitochondrial transfer @greletlab.bsky.social 🔬 Red calcium biosensors @massecklab.bsky.social & @piatkevich.bsky.social ✂️ CRISPRa-AAV for adipocytes @nadavahituv.bsky.social & more!

New at Addgene! MitoTRACER, a cre-lox based reporter of cell-to-cell mitochondrial transfer. Used to study transfer from nerve to cancer cells and its impact on metabolism and metastasis. By @greletlab.bsky.social 🔗 https://twp.ai/4itAyW

Identification of optimal fluorophores for use in the Drosophila embryo https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.678560v1

Our work on intercellular transfer of mitochondria and cancer metastasis has been featured in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research @theaacr.bsky.social 📖 Read it here: aacrjournals.org/cdnews/news/...

🎉 NIH-MERIT Award (R37): I have received the NOA for my first R01 grant from the NIH. I am honored that it has been selected for conversion into an R37 MERIT Award, which allows funding for up to seven years! Learn more: grants.nih.gov/funding/acti...

🧠⚡ Check out this article about our work on mitochondrial transfers from nerves to cancer cells, recently featured in New Scientist. www.newscientist.com/article/2485...

The @greletlab.bsky.social show enhanced metastatic capabilities of cancer cells that receive mitochondria from neurons in primary tumors, shedding new light on how the nervous system supports cancer metabolism and metastatic dissemination.

Did you know that sea slugs steal chloroplasts from algae as portable snacks?! Neither did I, but a new Cell paper demonstrates that they do. 🐌🧪 My favorite part is the researchers called the storage for these stolen hors d’oeuvres “kleptosomes” 😂🥰 Summary from Nature & Cell paper linked below.

Center of Rho ophiuchi cloud complex, 7.5h LRGB. #astrophotography

Here is an interesting and detailed highlight of our work. "Neuronal transfer of mitochondria to tumour cells promotes cancer spread" - News and views - section of Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out our work highlight in the "News" section of Nature. "Cancer cells get power boost by stealing mitochondria from nerves" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When I began studying mitochondria transfer during my master's internship in 2016, a committee member dismissed it as artificial and irrelevant to (patho)physiology. It's great to see growing evidence from recent studies proving otherwise 😊

Happy to share our latest study is now out in Nature! Cancer cells steal mitochondria from neurons to boost metabolism, resist stress & spread. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CancerGetsNervous #Metastasis #Mitochondria #Neuron #CancerResearch #Nature

new out in Nature, a really cool study www.nature.com/articles/s41...

and the News & Views www.nature.com/articles/d41...

as well as a news story www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature research paper: Nerve-to-cancer transfer of mitochondria during cancer metastasis https://go.nature.com/46c474I

Neuronal transfer of mitochondria to tumor cells promotes cancer spread @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/d41... @greletlab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...