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Sign up for midwest metabolism & Trimad joint meeting! Abstracts are due 9/2/25. The vast majority of talks will come from the abstracts - great opportunity for trainees! www.vai.org/event/2025-m...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

HIRING! We're looking for an assistant professor/investigator to lead metabolism-focused research @morgridgemeta.bsky.social through a joint tenure track position with UW–Madison @bmolchem.bsky.social. Join our team! https://morgridge.org/job-posting/assistant-professor-in-metabolism-research/

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Check out this nice review article from my buds on cardiometabolism, including the emerging role of microproteins! We might have something to add to this conversation in a few years, stay tuned! www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Glad to report that this tour de force from our collaborator Caroline Alexander (with a bit of assistance from our lab in the form of Michaela Trautman) is now out: "Dietary lipids are largely deposited in skin and rapidly affect insulating properties" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

#Preprint alert! Kevin Chen, a brilliant @mskcancercenter.bsky.social GSK graduate student and NCI F99/K00 awardee, identifies a novel, post-transcriptional checkpoint on intratumoral T cell function: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

That's a wrap on the 2025 Cancer Metabolism Showcase. With everything going on it was so great to hear a fantastic career keynote from Jeff Rathmell and awesome talks and posters from students and postdocs! Hats off to @harrislab.bsky.social for running the show.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Check out this seminal study @theaacr.bsky.social by the one and only @marasherman.bsky.social aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov... & the commentary about its importance to gain understanding on the inherent tumor-suppressive #PancreaticCancer #TME (by yours truly) aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

excited to share our latest work now online @natmetabolism.nature.com, led by @kyle-flickinger.bsky.social, where we unravel a mechanistic basis for the conditional essentiality of NADK, one of the many interesting hits from our previously reported CRISPR screening with HPLM rdcu.be/ekpu6

submitted 45 days ago • 17 comments

Next up at METPHYS2025 Evan Lien is sharing how diet can influence ferroptosis sensitivity

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Less than 1 week until the Showcase! We have an amazing program lined up with outstanding speakers, awesome posters, and incredible workshops! www.cancermetabolismshowcase.org/s/2025_CMSW_...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Check out this poster!!!

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Last but not least, Mete will be presenting his work at this afternoon’s poster presentation as well. Make sure to check him out!! @meteozgurses.bsky.social

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I'm excited to share our latest story from the @lydiafinley.bsky.social lab, where we show that it's not just whether cells take up nutrients that matters, but how and where those metabolites are used. Out now in @naturemetabolism.bsky.social: rdcu.be/ejFTs 1/

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Excited to speak today at #AACR2025 in Chicago! I’ll present “Metabolic stress as a driver of stromal plasticity: Adaptation, survival, and CAF subtype conversion” in the Tumor Metabolism and Microenvironment session (10–11:30AM, S100A). Come hear about Yijuan Zhang’s amazing work! #CancerResearch

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

📝 #TIL about the modulation of the nutrients of the TME from Cosimo Commisso and Ilaria Elia, which dictates how the tumor cells and all the other cell types are functioning, including the CAFs and the CD8s #AACR25

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Less than two weeks until the 2025 Cancer Metabolism Showcase and Workshops! Speaker lineup now online! Register today! www.cancermetabolismshowcase.org

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 Hot off the press: Researchers at the University of Chicago, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, have published a groundbreaking study in @NatureCellBio demonstrating how the accumulation of a tumor metabolite impairs T cell function in the tumor microenvironment. ow.ly/vxWI50VEJVm

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Excited to share new report from collaborative work from @delgoffelab.bsky.social and @patrickjonker.bsky.social from our team on a novel metabolic suppressor of T cell function in tumors! rdcu.be/eiyIa 1/

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

🌟 Excited to share our latest spotlight! 🌟 Co-wrote with @mariopalma.bsky.social and Jessalyn @ubellackerlab.bsky.social, highlighting Ueda et al.'s study on oxidative niches driving immune evasion in tumors. Check out our spotlight article here: rb.gy/zi8wj9 Ueda et al., 2025: rb.gy/674im7

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Via Lustgarten.org #PancreasCancer community continues to advocate for full reinstatement of federal #pancreaticcancer research funding, sponsor breakthrough research & raise awareness. Call your representatives! lustgarten.org/leadership/y...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

📢 New preprint alert! 🚨 We show that diet quality, not just quantity, is a key player in driving pancreatic cancer progression. 🔑 What you eat matters for cancer risk—much more than we previously thought. #PancreaticCancer #CancerBiology #DietAndCancer

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

I could not be more excited to travel back to where it all began for me, the Chicagoland area, for #ASBMB25! Can't wait to see family and old friends, as well as meet new friends! I will be giving a talk and a poster presentation on April 14th. Hope to see some of you there!!

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Registration is live for the 1st ever Midwest Metabolism & TRiMAD dual meeting, hosted jointly by VAI + U of M in Ann Arbor, MI November 10-11, 2025! We have some exciting speakers but most will come from abstracts so submit your best #mitochondria & #metabolism research! www.vai.org/event/2025-m...

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

SO excited to share that a major part of the postdoctoral work in @robzonculab.bsky.social lab is now published: “Leucine aminopeptidase LyLAP enables lysosomal degradation of membrane proteins” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 81 days ago • 7 comments

www.quantamagazine.org/how-metaboli... Seems like a good time to remind you of an upcoming meeting on this exact topic: www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Best conference of the year (imo)! Hope to see everyone there!

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Lipid availability influences ferroptosis sensitivity in cancer cells by regulating polyunsaturated fatty acid trafficking by Kelly H. Sokol, Evan C. Lien, et al at @vainstitute.bsky.social http://dlvr.it/TJfPTN

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

📢🚨Deadline to submit an abstract for the 2025 Showcase is this Friday, March 21st!📢🚨 Registration free! Speakers chosen from abstracts and non-faculty only! Amazing poster session and workshops! Sign up today at: www.cancermetabolismshowcase.org

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments