Matteo and Hannah attended the 3rd annual retreat of the of the CRC1451: Key mechanisms of motor control in health and disease. Clinicians and scientists updated each other in the progress of the individual projects and collaborations. It’s always a pleasure to be there – you could sense a very collegial and motivating atmosphere during these two days.

Meret defended her PhD Thesis concentrating on the role of mitochondria in competition dynamics during adult hippocampal neurogenesis. CONGRATS – we are proud of you. Results are published on BioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.11.540324v1. Meret leaves us to continue a new career path and adventures. We have no doubt that you will succeed – Keep us updated 😉 ALL THE BEST!

We had to say good bye to Esther who joined the Frezza Lab as a scientific coordinator – she is literally still on the same floor of the building but we miss her. Next to scientific achievements Esther’s positive energy and confidence was important for the team. ‚The Bergamis‘ and Esther share a lot of good and valuable memories! We wish you only the best for your future!

Today we celebrated Kristiano for a brilliant defense. Committee and audience were impressed. He talked about the importance of functional mitochondria in GABAergic neurons for brain physiology. Very good job – CONGRATS. We are beyond happy that you will stick around a bit longer as a Postdoc.

Kristiano, Marco and Haena attended from 6th to 8th of November 2022 the Cell Symposia: Multifaceted Mitochondria in Seville in Spain. They brought along posters to discuss their work, enjoyed the November sun and the time with their scientific fellows.

Meret participated at the ’stem cell systems in regeneration, disease and development‘ workshop in Mainz (9-12 Sep 2022) and contributed with a poster to discuss her Phd work with experts in the field.

A little late update: we attended in June the retreats organized by the individual collaborative research centers for motor control and mitochondrial regulation of cellular function, respectively. It was nice to see so many colleagues for updates and discussions on the projects.

CRC1218 group picture (if you look close enough you find Matteo, Elisa and Haena ;))

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Exciting News:

Elisa got accepted as a CRC1218 research group leader and will open her own lab very soon: https://sfb1218.uni-koeln.de/projects/research-group-leaders/motori-lab
For further details about her research and potential open positions feel free to contact her directly: elisa.motori@uni-koeln.de

and Hae-Na defended successfully her master thesis about mitochondria trafficking in Purkinje neurons. She will stay in close proximity and start her PhD work in Elisa’s group.

Get-together picture after Hae-Nas online zoom defense in our kitchen in CECAD