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Staff Profile

Dr Christin Albus

Research Associate in Mitochondrial Biol

Background

2019 - present Postdoctoral Research Associate, Newcastle University, UK

2018 - 2019 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Durham University, UK

2013 - 2016 HFSP Long-Term Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

2012 - 2013 Dean of Faculty Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

2010 - 2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Molucular Plant Physiology, Germany


2010 PhD, Max-Planck Institute for Molucular Plant Physiology and Potsdam University, Germany

2006 Diploma, University of Münster, Germany


Publications

  • Zahavi EE, Koppel I, Kawaguchi R, Oses-Prieto JA, Briner A, Monavarfeshani A, Dalla Costa I, van Niekerk E, Lee J, Matoo S, Hegarty S, Donahue RJ, Sahoo PK, Ben-Dor S, Feldmesser E, Ryvkin J, Leshkowitz D, Perry RB, Cheng Y, Farber E, Abraham O, Samra N, Okladnikov N, Alber S, Albus CA, Rishal I, Ulitsky I, Tuszynski MH, Twiss JL, He Z, Burlingame AL, Fainzilber M. Repeat-element RNAs integrate a neuronal growth circuit. Cell. 2025 May 12:S0092-8674(25)00498-2. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.04.030. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40381624
  • Koutsogiannis Z, Mina JG, Albus CA, Kol MA, Holthuis JCM, Pohl E, Denny PW. Toxoplasma ceramide synthases: Gene duplication, functional divergence, and roles in parasite fitness. FASEB J. 2023 Nov;37(11):e23229. doi: 10.1096/fj.202201603RRR. PMID: 37795915
  • Albus CA, Berlinguer-Palmini R, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZM, Lightowlers RN. Four-Color STED Super-Resolution RNA Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization and Immunocytochemistry to Visualize Mitochondrial mRNAs in Context with Mitochondrial Ribosomes. Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2661:303-316.
  • Song DA, Alber S, Doron-Mandel E, Schmid V, Albus CA, Leitner O, Hamawi H, Oses-Prieto JA, Dezorella N, Burlingame AL, Fainzilber M, Rishal I. A New Monoclonal Antibody Enables BAR Analysis of Subcellular Importin β1 Interactomes. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2022 Nov;21(11):100418.
  • Albus CA, Berlinguer-Palmini R, Hewison C, McFarlane F, Savu EA, Lightowlers RN, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZM, Zorkau M. Mitochondrial Translation Occurs Preferentially in the Peri-Nuclear Mitochondrial Network of Cultured Human Cells. Biology (Basel). 2021 Oct 15;10(10):1050.
  • Zorkau M, Albus CA, Berlinguer-Palmini R, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZMA, Lightowlers RN. High-resolution imaging reveals compartmentalization of mitochondrial protein synthesis in cultured human cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Feb 9;118(6):e2008778118.
  • Albus CA, Rishal I, Fainzilber M. Cell length sensing for neuronal growth control. Trends Cell Biol. 2013 Jul;23(7):305-10
  • Albus CA, Salinas A, Czarnecki O, Kahlau S, Rothbart M, Thiele W, Lein W, Bock R, Grimm B, Schöttler MA. LCAA, a novel factor required for magnesium protoporphyrin monomethylester cyclase accumulation and feedback control of aminolevulinic acid biosynthesis in tobacco. Plant Physiol. 2012 Dec;160(4):1923-39.
  • Krech K, Ruf S, Masduki FF, Thiele W, Bednarczyk D, Albus CA, Tiller N, Hasse C, Schöttler MA, Bock R. The plastid genome-encoded Ycf4 protein functions as a nonessential assembly factor for photosystem I in higher plants. Plant Physiol. 2012 Jun;159(2):579-91
  • Schöttler MA, Albus CA, Bock R. J Plant Physiol. Photosystem I: its biogenesis and function in higher plants. J Plant Physiol. 2011 Aug 15;168(12):1452-61
  • Albus CA, Ruf S, Schöttler MA, Lein W, Kehr J, Bock R. Y3IP1, a nucleus-encoded thylakoid protein, cooperates with the plastid-encoded Ycf3 protein in photosystem I assembly of tobacco and Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 2010 Aug;22(8):2838-55


Teaching

MMB8034 - Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine

Publications