Dear colleagues,
In today's newsletter we would like to announce the opening of the mentoring programme for 2025 and highlight funding opportunities for ECR members of our society! We would like to celebrate the conclusion of our webinar series and discuss with you future directions for next year. At the end of the newsletter, as always, you can also find a collection of upcoming events with important deadlines, some suggestions of interesting redox reads recently published, open call for papers and job opportunities for young redox researchers. And if you are interested in our activities planned for the SFRR-International Galway meeting, stay tuned! More details are coming soon! We cannot wait to see you all there!
Mentoring Programme 2025:
We are very pleased to announce the launch of the next round of the mentoring programme! Joining a mentoring programme, whether as a mentor or a mentee, offers substantial benefits for both personal and professional development:
As a Mentor:
- Give Back: Share your experience to help someone grow, and contribute to your community or profession.
- Improve Leadership & Communication Skills: Teaching others refines your ability to explain, coach, and lead effectively.
- Gain Fresh Perspectives: Mentees often bring new ideas, questions, or insights that challenge your own thinking.
- Build Your Reputation: Being seen as a mentor enhances your credibility and visibility in your field.
- Learn Through Teaching: Articulating your own experience can deepen your understanding and highlight gaps you didn’t notice before.
As a Mentee:
- Accelerate Learning: Get guidance that helps you avoid common mistakes and learn faster.
- Gain Confidence: Support from a mentor can boost your belief in your abilities and direction.
- Access Experience & Insight: Learn from someone who’s already walked the path you're on.
- Expand Your Network: Mentors can open doors to people, opportunities, or resources you wouldn’t otherwise reach.
- Career Development: Mentorship can help you set clear goals, stay accountable, and build a roadmap for your ambitions.
We are strongly encouraging participation from all our community members! Only with your support can this programme work! The programme is open for registrations for both mentors and mentees. If you log in into the society’s intranet https://intranet.sfrr-europe.org, you can find the link to the quick survey on the left hand site “Mentoring Programme 2025“, it will only take 10 minutes! Deadline to sign up: 10th June 2025. For any questions please contact
Webinar series “Emerging leaders in redox biology”
Our webinar series completed its third year! We had some fantastic speakers this year and we are really looking forward to the next round of super cool talks from all you early career members and future leaders of our society! The webinar series will continue again in Autumn 2025!
Inspired by your feedback, we are pleased to announce a new, parallel seminar series to the “Emerging leaders in redox biology” webinars, focused on developing the skills needed to excel in research. Send us the topics you want to learn more about from the experts! Is it grant writing? Narrative CV composition? Effective presentation and communication? Email us your thoughts at
A recap of the last “Emerging Leaders in Redox Biology” webinars
In May, we had the webinar that is always very special for us. May is the Mental Health Awareness month and we wanted to share some insights about mental health with all of you. Our webinar featured speaker Amal Ibrahim, who gave an amazing presentation on stress factors for students.
Stress Factors, Stress Levels, and Coping Mechanisms Among University Students
Amal Ibrahim
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Jaén, Spain
Amal Ibrahim is a certified healthcare quality professional by the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), USA. She earned her master’s degree in health management and policies from Al-Quds University, Palestine, in 2018. Currently, she is a PhD student in the Health Sciences program at the University of Jaén, specializing in health management research, and a part-time lecturer at the Arab American University of Palestine.
Previously, Amal worked as a project coordinator for NGOs in Palestine, where she coordinated a project with the University of Jaén. She also served as a Middle East coordinator for a British event organization company in the UK, earning the Best Coordinator Award in 2020. Additionally, she has experience as a medical referral coordinator at a private hospital in Palestine and worked with the World Bank, providing administrative and management support to external experts. Earlier in her career, she worked as an administrative assistant in Saudi Arabia, where she was honored as Employee of the Year in 2012.
Her research has been published in The Scientific World Journal (2023, 2026971) and Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal (EMHJ, Vol. 28, No. 10, 2022). She is passionate about contributing her expertise in healthcare management and policy development.
In the May webinar, Amal highlighted the growing awareness of mental health challenges within academia. She addressed how intense workloads, pressure to publish, job insecurity and academic isolation contribute to rising levels of anxiety, depression and burnout, particularly among PhD students and early-career researchers. While individual strategies such as boundary-setting, peer support and self-care are valuable, she emphasized that lasting change requires systemic efforts to build a more sustainable, supportive and inclusive environment. The session concluded with a call to action for individuals, institutions and policy-makers to collaborate in fostering a healthier academic culture.
In April’s webinar we learnt about “Chaperones in redox biology” with two wonderful talks by Kathrin Ulrich and Reymond Sutandy. If you didn’t have a chance to follow the webinar, here’s a summary for you.
Redox-regulated chaperones in organismal proteostasis regulation
Kathrin Ulrich, PhD
Institute of Biochemistry, Center of Molecular Biosciences, CoMB, University of Cologne
Keep calm and chaperone on - In this webinar, Dr. Kathrin Ulrich shared with us how the redox state of Get3 can modulate its function. Get3 is a cytosolic protein that, when reduced, has an ATPase function that ultimately facilitates the post-translational insertion of tail-anchored proteins into the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum. Yet, upon oxidative stress and a depletion of ATP, Get3 loses its nucleotide-binding capacities, making the cysteines available for oxidation, partially unfolding Get3 and re-arranging the protein, changing its function as a chaperone, where it can form chaperone-active oligomers, helping the cell to cope against unfavourable conditions. Get3 functions then, as a stress-sensing protein, able to moonlight between its functions as an ATPase and a Chaperone, depending on the requirements of the cell. The webinar was not recorded, but you can find more of Dr. Ulrich's research on her group’s website: https://ulrichlab.uni-koeln.de
ROS-mediated signaling of the mitochondrial unfolded protein response
Reymond Sutandy, PhD
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas, USA
When the Powerhouse sends an SOS - In this webinar, Dr. Raymond Sutandy guided us to understand the signaling mechanisms that activate the mitochondrial unfolded protein response (UPRmt) in human cells. He showed that UPRmt is triggered by two independent signals from the mitochondria, mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mtROS), and the accumulation of mitochondrial protein precursors in the cytosol. mtROS diffuse to the cytosol, and it is detected by the DNAJA1-HSP70 complex, activating the nuclear translocation of the transcription factor, HSF1, and changing the transcriptomic landscape of the cell, inducing the mitochondrial chaperones and proteases to restore proteostasis in the mitochondria. Inhibiting either the production of mtROS or the accumulation of the protein precursors prevents the activation of HSF1 and therefore the UPRmt response. Showing that the disruption of this pathway will make mitochondria more vulnerable, reducing cell survival in unfavourable conditions.
Remember that you can also watch recordings of the webinars through the SFRR-E intranet!
More information about the ECR Subcommittee can be found on the SFRR-E website (ECR Committee), while regular updates can be found on Twitter (@SFRR_Europe), Instagram (@sfrr_ecr) and LinkedIn (SFRR-E). For any question or suggestion you might have, you can contact us via email:
Hope to see you online for our next Webinar Series appointment,
The ECR subcommittee
Upcoming events:
22nd SFRRI Biennial Meeting
- The New Era of Redox Biology: from Basic Biochemistry to Redox Omics
- 3 - 6 June 2025
- Location: Galway, Ireland
- Deadlines:
- Early Bird Registration and abstract submission for poster presentation: 4 April 2025
- Further information: https://www.sfrrgalway2025.com
12th Meeting of the Canadian Oxidative Stress Consortium (COSC)
- 11 - 13 June 2025
- Location: York University, Toronto, Canada
- Further information: https://rame.fluid.events/2025COSC?pgid=55846
FASEB Science Research Conference. Ferroptosis, Oxidative Stress, and Lipid Metabolism
- 27 - 31 July 2025
- Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
- Deadlines:
- Abstract Submission: 1 June 2025
- Early Registration: 15 June 2025
- Housing: 13 July 2025
- Further information: https://events.faseb.org/event/11797f9e-df16-42b9-9c47-f1e06713c4fb/summary
9th International Workshop on Nitric Oxide and Cancer
- Special focus on Inflammation and Therapeutics
- 8 - 10 September 2025
- Location: Dijon, France
- Deadlines:
- Registration: July 20, 2025
- Further information: https://blog.u-bourgogne.fr/no-cancer-dijon2025/
EMBO Workshop: Thiol based redox switches: From chemistry to physiology and pathology
- 13 - 18 September 2025
- Location: Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
- Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 May 2025
- Further information: https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-thiol-switches
FEBS 2nd Redox Medicine Workshop
- Connecting the Exposome with Redox Regulation in Health and Disease
- 6 - 9 October 2025
- Location: Luso, Portugal
- Abstract Submission Deadline: 20 July 2025
- Travel Grants: FEBS YTF Grants and SFRR-E Bursaries. Deadline: 1 July 2025
- Further information: http://www.redoxmedicine2025.febsevents.org/
SfRBM 2025 - 32nd Annual Conference of the Society for Redox Biology & Medicine
- 19 - 22 November 2025
- Location: Capital Hilton, Washington DC
- Abstract Submission Deadline: 5 September 5 2025
- Further information: https://sfrbm.org/meetings/sfrbm-2025/
Interesting Redox Papers:
- Mathieu, J., Kriznik, A., Charron, C., et al. The Dual Role of Active Site Hydroxylated Residue in Peroxiredoxin Sulfinylation Catalysis. Antioxid Redox Signal (2025). https://doi.org/10.1089/ars.2024.0685
- Villar, S.F., Ferrer-Sueta, G. & Denicola, A. Different oligomerization dynamics of reduced and oxidized human peroxiredoxin 1 and 2. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2025.151392
- Roeck, B.F., Lotfipour Nasudivar, S., Vorndran, M.R.H. et al. Ferroptosis spreads to neighboring cells via plasma membrane contacts. Nat Commun (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58175-w
- de Bont, L., Donnay, N., Favier, F., et al. Novel atypical thioredoxins with potential redox activity in eukaryote photosynthetic organisms. J Exp Bot (2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf066
- Frattini, G., Puzzolo, J.L., Drusin, S.I., et al. Human Mn-superoxide dismutase acetylation protects from enzyme nitration and inactivation. Arch Biochem Biophys (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2025.110439
- Kim, D., Kesavan, R., Ryu, K., et al. Mitochondrial NADPH fuels mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis and lipoylation to power oxidative metabolism. Nat Cell Biol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-025-01655-4
- Singh, G., Vengayil, V., Khanna, A., et al. Active control of mitochondrial network morphology by metabolism-driven redox state. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2025). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2421953122
- Yang, J-S., Morris, A.J., Kamizaki, K., et al. ALDH7A1 protects against ferroptosis by generating membrane NADH and regulating FSP1. Cell (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.03.019
- Aleixo-Silva, R.L., Domingos, R.M., Trujillo, M., et al. Interaction between 1-Cys peroxiredoxin and ascorbate in the response to H2O2 exposure in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Redox Biol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2025.103658
Newest Redox Protocols:
- Pérez-Chávez, I., Baeyens, N., Ezeriņa, D., et al. Protocol for real-time glycolytic monitoring in mammalian cells using confocal microscopy and HYlight, a biosensor for fructose 1,6-bisphosphate. STAR Protoc (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2025.103792
Insightful Redox Reviews:
- Cortese-Krott, M.M., Berra, L., Hobbs, A., et al. New Directions for Nitric Oxide – Focused, Rapid, and Forward-Looking. Nitric Oxide (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.niox.2025.04.005
- Ugalde, J.M. & Meyer, A.J. Genetically encoded biosensors as gateways to retrograde redox signalling in live plants. J Exp Bot (2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf080
- Niemeier, J-O, Prates Roma, L., Riemer, J., et al. Monitoring subcellular NADP redox state with NAPstar biosensors. Trends Biochem Sci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2025.03.013
- Lee, K.S., Su, X. & Huan, T. Metabolites are not genes — avoiding the misuse of pathway analysis in metabolomics. Nat Metab (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-025-01283-0
- Latest Redox Preprints:Melicher, P., Dvořák, P., Tsinyk, M., et al. Protein and genetic interactions between RACK1A and FSD1 modulate plant development and stress granule-dependent response to salt in Arabidopsis. BioRxiv (2025) https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.25.640159
- Bellalta, S., Pinheiro-Machado, E., Prins, J., et al. Disrupted stemness and redox homeostasis in mesenchymal stem cells of neonates from mothers with obesity: implications for increased adiposity. BioRxiv (2025). https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.14.648714
- Zaki, A.G., Miri, S.M., Vatandaşlar, E., et al. Switching ON Hydrogen Sulfide: A Chemogenetic Toolkit for Spatially Resolved H2S Manipulation. BioRxiv (2025). https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.12.653628
Call for papers:
- Journal: Redox Biochemistry and Chemistry
- Special Issue: Spatial analysis and new methods of identifying and quantifying intracellular oxidants
- Submission deadline: 31 August 2025
- More information:
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/320420/spatial-analysis-and-new-methods-of-identifying-and-quantifying-intracellular-oxidants
Redox Job Opportunities:
Remember that if there’s an open position in your lab for early career researchers and you would like to advertise it in our newsletter, just write us an email (
- Kind of position: (PhD student, Postdoc, etc)
- Research topic
- Institute/University
- Deadline
- Contact information
- Further information about the position (if any)