On Nov 1st, Dr. Alexey Amunts from Stockholm University in Sweden visited our lab and gave a wonderful talk “how genes become machines in mitochondria”. Alexey shared his work on mitochondrial ribosome which he started back to 2013 (together with Miao’s postdoc supervisor Alan Brown) when he was a postdoc in the lab of Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan. He has been digging into the detailed mechanisms of mitoribosome assembly, mRNA binding process, and nascent polypeptide delivery to the membrane in his independent group. Super beautiful structures and stunning movies!
After the talk, Alexey had lunch with Drs. Yang Gao, Yang Shi, Na Kong, Junming Ren, Yuanhui Mao and Miao. Love the free discussions during the lunch!
Also check the news report by Liangzhu Laboratory.
