ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Phosphoinositide-lipid signaling in neuronal mitochondrial biogenesis
Mitochondrial dysfunction leads to several neurodegenerative diseases and is implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders, yet our understanding of how mitochondrial biogenesis is tailored to neurons is very limited. My identification of a role for the phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)bisphosphate (PIP2) phosphatase SYNJ2 in local mitochondrial biogenesis connects phospholipid signalling with mitochondrial maintenance and mitophagy in axons. My lab is already utilizing advanced imaging methods to study RNA transport and local mitochondrial biogenesis. Recent advances in local lipid perturbations now make it possible to also identify lipid-mediated regulatory mechanisms of mitochondrial biogenesis.…
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