Sascha Martens
Sascha Martens earned his PhD in Genetics from the University of Cologne before completing postdoctoral training at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. Since 2009, he has led a research group at the Max Perutz Labs in Vienna, where is now a Full Professor. His lab focusses on selective autophagy. He reconstituted much of the core autophagy machinery and uncovered how autophagosome formation is coupled to cargo recognition. He also discovered that cargo receptors condense ubiquitinated proteins for autophagic degradation—a process that fails for pathological protein aggregates.
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