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Updates from the Alfonso-Prieto Lab
Updates from the Alfonso-Prieto Lab
New Insights into Cellular Quality Control: Jülich Researchers Uncover Mechanism at Calcium Channels
New Insights into Cellular Quality Control: Jülich Researchers Uncover Mechanism at Calcium Channels
Nov 27th, 2025
Check out the interview with Prof. Patricia Hidalgo and Dr. Beatrix Santiago-Schuebel.
There we talked about our publication uncovering the role of a protein-protein interaction in the detection and removal of defective channels.
Thanks to all the authors and in particular kudos to Francisco Castilla and Victor Lugo for their unrelenting work!
Image copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich / Patricia Hidalgo
Psi-K Conference 2025
Psi-K Conference 2025
Aug 25th-28th, 2025
Together with Carla Molteni, Laura Zanetti-Polzi, Samuele Giannini, Carme Rovira and Olga Lopez-Acevedo, we organized the C7 symposium "Molecules, macromolecules and biomolecules" within the Psi-K 2025 conference.
We enjoyed fantastic talks by our invited speakers, Prof. Isabella Daidone, Prof. Gabriele D'Avino and Prof. Ulrich Kleinekathöfer, as well as contributed talks by Nisha Sahane, Filip Ivanovic, Samuel Brookes and Silvia Giménez-Santamarina.
Image copyright: Psi-k Network
Congrats Dr. Müller !!!
Congrats Dr. Müller !!!
May 22nd, 2024
Nico defended his PhD thesis "Molecular determinants of the health effects of coffee compounds" at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
More details here.
Congrats Dr. Castilla !!!
Congrats Dr. Castilla !!!
Jan 25th, 2024
Fran defended his PhD thesis "Multidisciplinary approach for mapping protein-protein interaction surfaces: from mass spectrometry to computational and cell biology" at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Congrats Dr. Santarpia!!!
Congrats Dr. Santarpia!!!
Oct 31st, 2023
Giuliano defended his PhD thesis "RepOdor: a Manually-Curated, Comprehensive Repository of Odorants and their Olfactory Receptors" at the RWTH Aachen University.
Oxytocin and Autism: Study on A Receptor Variant Provides New Insights into the Cellular Origin of the Disorder
Oxytocin and Autism: Study on A Receptor Variant Provides New Insights into the Cellular Origin of the Disorder
Jan 13th, 2022
This press release highlights our publication on the structure-function relationships of an autism-linked variant of the oxytocin receptor.
Thanks to the labs of Prof. Inga D. Neumann, Prof. Paolo Carloni and Prof. Alejandro Giorgetti for the wonderful collaboration, in particular to Magdalena Meyer, Benjamin Jurek and Rui Ribeiro for their fantastic work.
You can read more about our study in the press releases of the University of Regensburg and the Human Brain Project.
Image copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich / Mercedes Alfonso-Prieto
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