Mariana Borsa

Honoured to serve as President of the Swiss Young Immunologists Society (SYIS).

We aim to connect early-career immunologists across Switzerland, strengthen our community, and support professional growth.
Looking forward to what we will achieve together!

To join the team syis-ecr.org/join-our-team/

I guess we meet next week in Basel?

Bittersweet farewell weeks at @kiroxford.bsky.social, a place pivotal to my growth as an independent scientist. With deep gratitude for this chapter, I'm thrilled to begin the next at @unibas.ch @biomedizin.unibas.ch, where my lab will study organelle inheritance in T cells in the context of ageing.

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

#Immunology out now @science.org

After initial priming in the lymph nodes, mouse CD8 T cells undergo a second phase of stable interactions with dendritic cells that can preferentially stimulate those with a high-affinity for antigen.

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By Jobin, Seetharama, Rüttger et al.

Fantastic week in Frankfurt at the #FCQC2025. Terrific talks, inspiring science and a great opportunity to meet my mentor, colleagues and collaborators in person. Big thanks to @sfb1177.bsky.social and @dikiclab.bsky.social. Please do it again!

Macrophage peroxisomes guide alveolar regeneration and limit SARS-CoV-2 tissue sequelae Peroxisomes are vital but often overlooked metabolic organelles. We found that excessive interferon signaling remodeled macrophage peroxisomes. This loss of peroxisomes impaired inflammation resolutio...

#InterferonFriendOrFoe?! Joe Sun, Xiaoqin Wei &co show @science.org that lung macrophage peroxisomes instruct repair programs after virus infections favoring AT2 cell renewal & recovery! IFNgamma drives pexophagy, increasing mitochondrial ROS & activating inflammasomes driving KRT8 cells & fibrosis!

"Fundamental and applied research are both necessary for innovation in science and industry."

We're extremely proud to share the news of Annette's appointment as ETH Vice President for Research 🎉

Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality - Nature Medicine Based on a systematic analysis of environmental exposures associated with aging and mortality in the UK Biobank, the relative contributions of such exposures and genetic risk for mortality and a range of age-related diseases were compared, highlighting the potential beneficial effects of environment-focused interventions.

A study in Nature Medicine provides a comprehensive map of the contributions of environment and genetics to mortality and incidence of common age-related diseases, suggesting that the exposome shapes distinct patterns of disease and mortality risk. #Medsky 🧪

Despite facing up to -20°C, spent fantastic days in my first Keystone²: exciting immunometabolism discussions and (re-)encounters with brilliant and generous leaders of the field. Happy to be part of this community #KSImmunometab25

ICYMI by First Release - now officially in print @science.org

Specific combinations of nutrients and metabolic enzymes determine T cell differentiation via loci-specific histone acetylations.

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From Shixin Ma, Sue Kaech @tcellogic.bsky.social et al.

#immunometabolism

Just climbed some steps to warm up for the #KSMitochondria25 in Taipei. First time in Asia, first time I will talk in a @keystonesymposia.bsky.social, all very exciting!

Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

After we reach advanced age, around 80, the propensity to develop cancer is markedly reduced. A discovery reported at Nature today about aged stem cells and iron insufficiency may help explain this advantage

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Huge congratulations, Daniela! 🎉

Would love to be added! :)

A panoramic view of cell population dynamics in mammalian aging To elucidate aging-associated cellular population dynamics, we present PanSci, a single-cell transcriptome atlas profiling over 20 million cells from 623 mouse tissues across different life stages, se...

Immune cells change in proportions with age - naive go down, effector go up. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I think I was too late to be added in the first one when I asked. Would be very happy to join this new pool :)

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

Definitely not a straightforward path, but it is happening: I am officially an Assistant Professor-to-be! 🎉 I am thrilled to announce that I was awarded a @snsf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant and I will start my lab next year. Very grateful to all those that supported me over the last years! 🫶 (1/4)

Significantly reduced, but balanced, rates of mitochondrial fission and fusion are sufficient to maintain the integrity of yeast mitochondrial DNA | Molecular Biology of the Cell Mitochondria exist as dynamic tubular networks and the morphology of these networks impacts organelle function and cell health. Mitochondrial morphology is maintained in part by the opposing activitie...

How do #mitochondria decide when to divide or fuse? I’ve always thought mtDNA played a key role in this process, so I was very surprised by this finding: The loss of mtDNA does not affect mitochondrial fission and fusion rates.
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

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We’re here 🦋 ✨ and excited to build the #yEFIS network for young European #immunologists on Bluesky! #ImmunoSky

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Terrific scientist starting as a PI at our alma mater @ethzurich.bsky.social. Stay tuned!

T cells 🫶🏻

I am coming back soon, please add me :)

T cell aficionada here! I would love to be added :)

Would love to be added! :)