Mitochondria and Bacterial Pathogens - Part A

Lorenzo Galluzzi is Assistant Professor of Cell Biology in Radiation Oncology at the Department of Radiation Oncology of the Weill Cornell Medical College, Honorary Assistant Professor Adjunct with the Department of Dermatology of the Yale School of Medicine, Honorary Associate Professor with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris, and Faculty Member with the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology of the University of Ferrara, the Graduate School of Pharmacological Sciences of the University of Padova, and the Graduate School of Network Oncology and Precision Medicine of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Moreover, he is Associate Director of the European Academy for Tumor Immunology and Founding Member of the European Research Institute for Integrated Cellular Pathology. Galluzzi is best known for major experimental and conceptual contributions to the fields of cell death, autophagy, tumor metabolism and tumor immunology. He has published over 450 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and is the Editor-in-Chief of four journals: OncoImmunology (which he co-founded in 2011), International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology, Methods in Cell biology, and Molecular and Cellular Oncology (which he co-founded in 2013). Additionally, he serves as Founding Editor for Microbial Cell and Cell Stress, and Associate Editor for Cell Death and Disease, Pharmacological Research and iScience. Saverio Marchi obtained his PhD in ‘Pharmacology and Molecular Oncology’ from University of Ferrara (Italy), under the supervision of Prof. Rosario Rizzuto, where he investigated the role of Ca2+ signalling and mitochondrial dynamics in cancer. He did a short term research stay at the Gustave Roussy Institute (Paris, France) in the Guido Kroemer’s lab, for the study of the mechanisms of autophagy regulation. On 2011 he joined the Laboratory of Dr. Paolo Pinton at the University of Ferrara (Italy) where he carried out his postdoctoral studies. During his postdoctoral training, he studied the implications of Endoplasmic Reticulum-mitochondria connection in diseases, especially cancer. In 2014, he was the recipient of the Young Researcher award, which allowed him to work at the Cancer Center, University of Hawai’i (Prof. Michele Carbone’s lab), where he was introduced to the study of the signalling pathways regulating mesothelioma progression. Now, he is associate professor at the Marche Polytechnic University, where he leads his own group. He is interested in the involvement of the MCU complex and mitochondrial Ca2+ in the evolution of cancer. More recently, he has become interested in the alteration of mitochondrial dynamics during bacterial infection. He published 77 papers on “peer-reviewed” journals (h-index: 41; n° of citations > 5800. Source: Scopus).

1. The bacterial origin of mitochondria: Incorrect phylogenies and the importance of metabolic traits

Mauro Degli Esposti

2. Legionella and mitochondria, an intriguing relationship

Francisco Javier García-Rodríguez, Carmen Buchrieser and Pedro Escoll

3. Role of mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization during bacterial infection

Collins Waguia Kontchou and Georg Häcker

4. The interplay between selective types of (macro)autophagy: Mitophagy and xenophagy

Teresa Rubio-Tomás, Aggeliki Sotiriou and Nektarios Tavernarakis

5. Role of mitochondria in regulating immune response during bacterial infection

Shaziya Khan, Swarnali Basu, Desh Raj and Amit Lahiri