Dance your PhD 2020: MAKORIN - The Secret Dream of Every Woman

Here is my attempt to explain what I did for my PhD. To make it more fun we used capoeira angola for it. During my PhD, I tried to learn everything there is to know about the protein Makorin - in flies (Drosophila). We found out that Makorin is an extremely important protein for female fertility: It’s main job is to help the ribosome activating the production of Oskar protein in the oocyte (the female fly reproductive organ). Makorin is doing so by competing with another protein - called Bruno. The activ