The European Commission awarded Evi Vasili with one of the prestigious and highly competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowships to work at BRI under the supervision of Savvas Christoforidis.

BRI-FORTH celebrated the New Year’s Cake cutting event and honored Professor Theodore. Fotsis for his contribution to the Institute. Mr. Fotsis was Director of the Institute from 2005 to 2019 and is a Distinguished Member of FORTH and Emeritus Professor of the University of Ioannina.

Cellular functions (such as proliferation, apoptosis, migration, differentiation, tissue formation etc) are controlled by extracellular ligands. Binding of the ligands (e.g. growth factors) to their receptors at the plasma membrane initiates signal transduction. Subsequent internalisation of the ligand/receptor complexes plays crucial role in regulating the signalling output.

The ER is the major intracellular reservoir of calcium and is important in the biogenesis of peroxisomes and autophagosomes. Moreover, it plays a key role in metabolic processes, such as gluconeogenesis, lipid synthesis and protein folding of the secretory pathway.