PD-MitoQUANT partners at Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière recently co-authored a study entitled "The PINK1 kinase-driven ubiquitin ligase Parkin promotes mitochondrial protein import through the presequence pathway in living cells." in Scientific Reports on August 14, 2019. This work was undertaken by M. Jacoupy, E. Hamon-Keromen, A.Ordureau, Z. Erpapazoglou, F. Coge, J.-C. Corvol, O. Nosjean, C. Mannoury laCour, M. J. Millan, J.A. Boutin, J.W. Harper, A. Brice, D.Guedin, C.A.Gautier and O. Corti. Congratulations to the team! "Most of over a [...]

On September 3, 2019, PD-MitoQUANT PI Dr Ronald Melki, Team Leader of the Protein misfolding and aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases group at CNRS delivered the keynote lecture at the 4-day SYNUCLEIN meeting.  Following on from the keynote talk, Ronald chaired a round table discussion titled: Alpha-synuclein aggregation: how does it happen? Participants at the table included Daniel Otzen, Ronald Melki and Hilal Lashuel. The 2019 meeting which took place in Ofir on the outskirts of Porto in Portugal was themed [...]