Raffaella De Pace's Avatar

Raffaella De Pace

@depaceraffa

Staff Scientist Currently at NIH/NICHD, Bonifacino Lab Neurobiology-Cell Biology-Intracellular Trafficking. The views expressed in this account are mine alone.

298
Followers
315
Following
1
Posts
15.11.2024
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Raffaella De Pace @depaceraffa

Post image

Latest preprint from our lab reports that the distinct pH of anterograde (less acidic) and retrograde (more acidic) lysosomal vesicles in the axon depends on assembly of the V1 and V0 domains of the vacuolar H+ ATPase, mediated by the metazoan RAVE complex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

23.12.2025 14:13 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Job add showing the lab logo and the following text: 
WHAT WE OFFER
Fully-funded fellowships up to five years  Opportunity to start your own research program or lead ongoing projects.
Large, diverse and extraordinary scientific network at the NIH/Bethesda campus. 

Working at NIH offers the possibility of living in a diverse, liberal and vibrant city: Washington DC
Or in a calm residential area with great schools and good affordable housing: Bethesda and Rockville.
 
WHO YOU ARE
You share our enthusiasm for epigenetics, gene regulation, nuclear organization and mouse development. You have PhD-experience in one or more of the following: mouse development, mouse genetics, epigenetics, or computational biology.

Job add showing the lab logo and the following text: WHAT WE OFFER Fully-funded fellowships up to five years Opportunity to start your own research program or lead ongoing projects. Large, diverse and extraordinary scientific network at the NIH/Bethesda campus. Working at NIH offers the possibility of living in a diverse, liberal and vibrant city: Washington DC Or in a calm residential area with great schools and good affordable housing: Bethesda and Rockville. WHO YOU ARE You share our enthusiasm for epigenetics, gene regulation, nuclear organization and mouse development. You have PhD-experience in one or more of the following: mouse development, mouse genetics, epigenetics, or computational biology.

🚨🚨🚨 Please repost
We are looking for postdocs to join our lab at NIH.
Apply:
www.nichd.nih.gov/research/atNICHD/Investigators/rocha/apply
Learn more about training at NIH :
www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

08.09.2025 15:15 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

BLOC-1 and BORC: Complex regulators of endolysosomal dynamics http://dlvr.it/TN9mpn

19.09.2025 17:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, @mishtudey.bsky.social and @cp-cellchembiol.bsky.social‬ for featuring this interview with @depaceraffa.bsky.social and Chad Williamson in connection to our article on BLOC-1 and BORC dlvr.it/TN9mpn

21.09.2025 16:26 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Job ad is here! Check it out :)

16.04.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

πŸ‘‰ New publication ahead of print from our lab: tinyurl.com/ye7pntte
We show that the protein SPG21, mutated in hereditary spastic paraplegia 21, localizes to endolysosomes via RAB7A, where it promotes mTORC1-dependent TFEB phosphorylation, reducing expression of a subset of TFEB regulated genes

21.08.2025 18:02 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New from @depaceraffa.bsky.social from our lab #NICHD #NIH in collaboration with Adeline Vanderver @childrensphila.bsky.social ‬and colleagues reporting mutations in the BLOC1S1 subunit of the BLOC-1 and BORC complexes in children with a neurodevelopmental disorder www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

24.08.2025 14:37 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
CHIP protects lysosomes from CLN4 mutant-induced membrane damage Nature Cell Biology - Lee et al. use an aggregation-prone CLN4 mutant that causes lysosomal damage in neurons and show that in non-neurons, the ubiquitin ligase CHIP prevents CLN4-dependent...

Happy to share an exciting study from Yihong Ye’s lab at NIH, with a minor contribution from our lab: ceroid lipofuscinosis-4 (CLN4)-linked DNAJC5 mutations cause lysosomal damage as a driver of neurodegeneration in iPSC-derived neurons. CHIP safeguards lysosomes via microautophagy πŸ‘‰ rdcu.be/eChof

25.08.2025 13:23 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Excited to share our new review with @depaceraffa.bsky.social‬, @saikat2025.bsky.social‬, and Chad Williamson on the BLOC-1 and BORC complexesβ€”key regulators of endolysosomal processes and linked to several genetic diseases. #NIH #Lysosomes #RareDiseases authors.elsevier.com/a/1lg4i8jWWJ...

26.08.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 Exciting postdoc opportunity in @juanbonifacino.bsky.social lab!! If you have a passion for protein trafficking and neurodevelopmental disorders, and want to join a dynamic and collaborative team consider applying! Positions will be available starting in October.πŸπŸ‚

14.04.2025 11:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

I’m so excited to organize the #Lysosomes Subgroup at @ASCBiology 2024 meeting on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 3:15pm, Room 33B.

Lysosomes naturally lend themselves to puns. So…Don’t be π’ƒπ’‚π’”π’Šπ’„. Join us for fresh, π’„π’–π’•π’•π’Šπ’π’ˆ-edge talks and puntastic times. It will 𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒕 π’šπ’π’– if you miss it.

05.12.2024 00:14 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

This post is about a commentary that I wrote with Xin Yong about recognition of cargo vesicles by tethering factors involved in endosomes to TGN retrograde transport.

19.11.2024 23:34 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image


Kudos to authors MoriΓ© Ishida, Adriana Golding, @TalKerenKaplan @NICHD_NIH and our collaborators Tamas Balla @NICHD_NIH and Yan Li @NIH_NINDS! Great teamwork!

23.11.2024 13:32 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Excited to share our latest findings on how the phosphoinositide PI4P pool at the trans-Golgi network (TGN) is regulated through a SYS1-ARFRP1-ARL5-ARMH3-PI4KB pathway, in which ARMH3 (also known as C10orf76) acts as an ARL5 effector to activate PI4KB. rdcu.be/d1dZ2

23.11.2024 13:32 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

Reposting @yousufakhan.bsky.social reference to a preprint demonstrating that programmed ribosomal frameshifting generates a PLEKHM2 proteoform that behaves as a constitutively active adaptor for ARL8-dependent coupling of lysosomes to kinesin-1, with collaboration from our lab tinyurl.com/mtrkzdrm

23.11.2024 18:49 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0