Cell Biology lab at UTSW @UTSWNews. We study lipid droplets and the organization of metabolism in cells.

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Important to celebrate trainee victories: excited to have @HollyMerta's paper out in @CellReports. We use TurboID sub-organelle proteomics to map the ER network. We discover calmin/CLMN, an ER-to-actin tether regulating focal adhesions & cell motility. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Please re-post! Time is almost up to register for the 2026 FASEB Lipid Droplet Meeting. Abstracts are due May 31, 2026. See link below, and join us for an amazing SRC lipid meeting July 26-30! #LipidSRC events.faseb.org/event/Lipid…
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So happy to host @RobertoZoncu at UTSW, who gave a spectacular seminar as part of our LMND series on lipids and organelles in neurodegenerative diseases. Thank you for visiting us Roberto!
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Great to see this Spotlight article in Trends in Cell Biology highlighting our recent identification of a lipid droplet quality control pathway in which FSP1 protects PUFA-rich neutral lipids from peroxidation, thereby suppressing ferroptosis. cell.com/trends/cell-biology…
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Just published!! Congrat's to my post-doc Wang for getting featured on the cover of Science Signaling. So proud!! So much more to learn about phenotypic plasticity. science.org/eprint/XZZZRR72V…
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You do not want to miss the 2026 FASEB #LipidDroplet conference! Abstracts are due May 31. Travel awards are available for trainees 👇
Summer is approaching & so is the 2026 Lipid Droplets: From Mechanisms to Disease FASEB SRC (July 26-30 in Scottsdale, AZ)! Interested in lipids? Join this amazing summer research conference! Abstracts due May 31, Early registration June 14. events.faseb.org/event/Lipid…
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COMMENT | NJ Færgeman (U of Southern Denmark) Long-chain acyl-CoA esters are essential to virtually every aspect of lipid metabolism, yet they are underappreciated and deserve greater attention. dlvr.it/TSLpT0
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Looking forward to this 😍
Summer is approaching & so is the 2026 Lipid Droplets: From Mechanisms to Disease FASEB SRC (July 26-30 in Scottsdale, AZ)! Interested in lipids? Join this amazing summer research conference! Abstracts due May 31, Early registration June 14. events.faseb.org/event/Lipid…
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Summer is approaching & so is the 2026 Lipid Droplets: From Mechanisms to Disease FASEB SRC (July 26-30 in Scottsdale, AZ)! Interested in lipids? Join this amazing summer research conference! Abstracts due May 31, Early registration June 14. events.faseb.org/event/Lipid…
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New paper from the lab, lead by graduate student Liang Chen. Here, guided by genome-wide CRISPR screening, we demonstrated that either lipids have a big impact on the lysosomal function, especially under the storage disease conditions. link.springer.com/10.1038/s4…
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Dearest gentle reader, we are delighted to announce a new story from our lab published in @Nature describing how a meal's systemic metabolic changes are interpreted by your immune system to enhance adaptive immunity. A thread 1/ nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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James Olzmann (@OlzmannLab at @UCBerkeley) won the 2026 Avanti Award in Lipids. His work has advanced knowledge of lipid droplets, lipid metabolism & ferroptosis. ⏯️Watch his #ASBMB26 talk, "Guardians of the membrane": piped.video/QJ5YOsUCuHQ #LipidResearch @AvantiResearch
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Very interesting study examining links between key lysosome homeostasis proteins and neurodevelopment disorder.
New work from @MencacciLab et al, with contribution from @DePaceRaffa in our lab @NIH_Innovates, identifies pathogenic variants in BORCS5, encoding a subunit of the BORC complex, as a cause of a severe neurodevelopmental disorder with lysosomal dysfunction jci.org/articles/view/195336
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New work from @MencacciLab et al, with contribution from @DePaceRaffa in our lab @NIH_Innovates, identifies pathogenic variants in BORCS5, encoding a subunit of the BORC complex, as a cause of a severe neurodevelopmental disorder with lysosomal dysfunction jci.org/articles/view/195336
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Check out our highlight of the most recent example of subcellular mitochondrial specialization in @CurrentBiology. Be sure to also check out the beautiful work from David Sherwood's lab cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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So happy to host Antonia De Maio from @CellPressNews as part of our LMND seminar series. Antonia spoke to trainees about the publishing career path, and gave a wonderful seminar about navigating academic publishing.
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Our new work by @shanshanliu1218 and @gadmark addresses a fundamental question: how does ER maintain its unique oxidizing environment, while rest of the cell is reducing? Here, we identify SLC33A1 as the major ER GSSG exporter in mammalian cells. nature.com/articles/s41556-0…
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Updated preprint! Here, we identify an SREBP-dependent fatty acid sensing metabolic switch in Drosophila, enabling dramatic metabolic rewiring within adipose tissue that boosts carbohydrate metabolism in the absence of fat. Read more here: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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