REMINDER Van: "Delphine Verspeel" <delphine.verspeel@psb.vib-ugent.be> Aan: "meetings" <meetings@psb.vib-ugent.be> Verzonden: Maandag 4 september 2023 17:24:25 Onderwerp: You are invited to attend “Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants and humans” ON October 12, 2023 You are receiving this e-mail because you subscribed to our seminars announcements and reminders service at [ https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/seminars | https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/seminars ] . '' Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants and humans '' Dr Yasin Dagdas Gregor Mendel Institute Vienna Biocenter AUSTRIA Thursday, October 12, 2023 11:00 Selective autophagy has emerged as a crucial quality control pathway that enables cells to adapt to changing environmental conditions and intrinsic demands. Through the recruitment of damaged and unwanted cellular components into de novo formed double membrane vesicles, known as autophagosomes, and their subsequent degradation in lytic compartments, selective autophagy facilitates cellular reprogramming. The recruitment of specific cargo is mediated by cargo receptors that bridge the cargo with the growing autophagosome. Despite recent advances that underscore the critical role of selective autophagy in stress tolerance, our understanding of the full range of cargo receptors involved in these processes remains incomplete. In this presentation, I will describe our recent findings, where we leveraged evolutionary diversity to discover new cargo receptors in plants. Our comparative studies in plants have led us to identify a cross-kingdom conserved selective autophagy process that maintains endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis in humans. Through this work, we hope to establish autophagy as a template for addressing a fundamental question in evolutionary cell biology: how do cellular innovations arise in different branches of life? Jozef Schell seminar room Technologiepark 71 - 9052 Invited by Prof Dirk Inzé and Prof Daniël Van Damme If you do not wish to receive this information anymore, please unsubscribe from future mailings at [ https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/seminars | https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/seminars ] Genome editing, cutting-edge technology for a sustainable agriculture VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology Ghent University Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 71 9052 Ghent-Belgium Phone: +32(0)9 331 38 00 [ http://www.psb.vib-ugent.be/ | https://www.psb.ugent.be/ ]