Francesca Rizzollo
@Franci_Rizz
PhD student at @AgostinisLab @vib_ccb. Cancer biology, cell death, and chasing little organelles. Food and music lover, professional singer in the shower.
Happy to see my PhD work coming together 🤩
🥳 Happy to share our new preprint where we describe the molecular machinery regulating iron transport between lysosomes and mitochondria, how it controls the melanoma drug tolerant persister state and the consequences of its perturbation on ferroptosis 👉 researchsquare.com/article/rs-534…
Finally out 🤩 congrats to my lab mate @Sanket4578 👏🏻 and all the co-authors!
🤩Thrilled to share our new study on the autocrine role of melanoma-secreted ApoE in controlling ferroptosis susceptibility across melanoma cell states👇@Sanket4578 et al. 1/3 science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…
Had a wonderful time at the 30th #ECDO24 in Luxembourg! Loved the inspiring talks of the pioneers of Ferroptosis @Conrad_Lab and @bstockwell and all the other incredibile scientists I had the honour to share the stage with 🤩

Honoured to be mentioned, together with all those incredible images! Science can be beautiful 😍 @NikonSmallWorld Melanoma cells showing mitochondria and lysosome dynamics | 2024 Small World in Motion Competition | Nikon’s Small World: nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2024…
Very proud to be part of it – a must read in case you are interested in iron biology (beyond ferroptosis)… 😉 nature.com/articles/s4158…
Beautiful imaging of mitochondria of my melanoma cells! 🤩 Always great to collaborate with @ayala_escamilla 🙏
🤩Thrilled to share our new study on the autocrine role of melanoma-secreted ApoE in controlling ferroptosis susceptibility across melanoma cell states👇@Sanket4578 et al. 1/3 science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…
Exciting possibility‼️A PI position available at @KU_Leuven in our Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CMM) for #MembraneContactSites research. Please see below for details or contact @AgostinisLab please RT. Info: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… CMM: gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/resear…
Check out our review on #ferroptosis-inducing agents in #MedicinalResearchReviews! We discuss the challenges and opportunities in the development of redox therapeutics for a targeted #cancer therapy. doi.org/10.1002/med.21… #celldeath #peroxidation @uniinnsbruck @UniJena
Check out our latest poster on the 'Diversity of mitophagy pathways at a glance' by Ian Ganley @LabGanley @mrcppu @UoDLifeSciences and Anne Simonsen @simonsen_lab @CanCell_UiO. #openaccess thanks to @Co_Biologists' #Readandpublish agreement with @Jisc: ow.ly/bB4a50M5Cpu
Our paper introducing PK Mito Orange (PKMO) has finally been published. It was a great pleasure to work together with @TianyanL on this project. Wonderful collaboration between @ZhixingChen2 and @JakobsLab! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #mitochondria #STED
We’re hiring a POSTDOC! 👇 Are you interested in unfolding mechanisms of melanoma stromal cell interaction regulating cell death and antitumor immunity? Come and join us! jobso.id/fjg3
Mitochondrial cristae architecture protects against mtDNA release and inflammation cell.com/cell-reports/f…
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To all of you that are fighting, we fight with you, we fight for you! #dayagainstcancer #dagtegenkanker #komoptegenkanker @komop_tgkanker @Onco_KULeuven
Congratulations to Natalia who successfully defended her master thesis today in Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Trento @CIBIO_UniTrento 👏🏻👏🏻🥳 Very proud of the first master student I supervised during my PhD! 🤩


Resolving subcellular pH with a quantitative fluorescent lifetime biosensor. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…
We really had a fantastic time together!! Thank you all! 🙏 @CSHANews
Thank you everyone for your participation in #CSHAsia meeting on #Iron, #ROS & #Ferroptosis in Life, Death & Disease at #Awaji Japan. You guys are awesome! We truly believe this community will continue to grow. Come back again in Asia for CSH Asia meetings. Until next time!😉
Day 4 of #CSHAsia meeting on #Iron, #ROS & #Ferroptosis. After 2 consecutive intense oral sessions in the day, it's time to kick off the party tonight. #Science is actually a social activity of the highest order and these guys know it well @Franci_Rizz @FelixCEV @KoekenIne