Congratulations to our tremendous graduating fellow, @N8Krah, on his newest preprint! Nate will be starting his lab here at @UofUHematology@huntsmancancer. We're excited to continue supporting his research!
🧵 the Krah Lab opens this month and our first preprint is live on bioRxiv!
This was a highly collaborative project with the Chaix Lab, @Dorrance_Lab and @RutterLab asking: does the modality of weight loss change how blood and inflammatory cells are made?
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It is NOA day! 🎉 I feel blessed and excited to receive the K99/R00 from NIH NIGMS! Thanks to everyone who has supported me and continues to support me on this journey. I appreciate you all! 🙏🏾✨🧪@UofUBiochem@RutterLab
We are thrilled to share this new preprint from our awesome grad student, @Tarun579_599! Tarun discovered that mitochondrial membrane proteins have evolved to incorporate threonines in place of highly hydrophobic residues to assist in their transit from the cytosol to mitochondrial membranes.
Excited to share our new preprint on how mitochondrial membrane proteins incorporate threonine to balance targeting through the aqueous cytosol with membrane stability. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Congratulations to our amazing summer undergraduate students on a successful presentation at the @UUtah Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS)! ✨ We are very proud of them and can't wait to see them continue to shine on their scientific journey! 🔬🧬🧪 @UofUBiochem@hhmi_science
It's a two-fer Tuesday. We are ecstatic to share this preprint from our amazing postdoc @CNFXC. Corey solved a long-standing question in the field of transport biology, identifying SLC16A6 as a melanosomal tyrosine transporter.
We are excited to share a new preprint from our amazing postdoc @alexjbott ! Alex designed a new CRISPR screening platform called TRoUT-FISH to identify transcriptional activators and repressors of various genes of interest! Check out his tweetorial below!
Happy to share our new preprint from @RutterLab. To understand how genes are controlled, we developed a method we call TRoUT-FISH, using CRISPR + RNA-FISH. We found that glycolytic gene expression is fine-tuned by lineage specifying transcription factors.
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This is a bit of a tale of two stories: we’re deeply intrigued by the biology and we think that this method is incredibly useful. It fills a gap in the field to ask gene-centric regulatory questions. We hope you enjoy the preprint, reach out with feedback!
Congrats to our superstar postdoc, @narbonaperez, for being awarded a UMDF Postdoctoral Fellow Grant! #Congrats#MitoMonday#UMDF 🎉🎉🎉
Many thanks to @UMDF for supporting Alvaro's promising work!
UMDF and @AusMito congratulate all of the 2026 Research Grant Award recipients! Read our full announcement to learn more about how this research will help advance the field of #mitochondrialdisease research.
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Two for Thursday: We want to highlight another fantastic collaboration, this time with William Oldham's lab at Brown University and our @N8Krah, demonstrating that MCT4 is a druggable target in pulmonary fibrosis. Check it out here: science.org/doi/10.1126/scit…@UofUHematology@huntsmancancer
Congrats to everyone involved!
We want to highlight a new collaborative project, led by @yliu_UofU lab with help from our superstar @UofUHematology Fellow @N8Krah, on the implementation of a novel CRISPR-Cas system to selectively kill cancer cells! #RisingStar#CRISPR
🧬 New paper out in @Nature! We used CRISPR to selectively kill cancer cells based on a single-letter mutation in their RNA. The story I want to highlight: KRAS — one of the most notorious drivers of human cancer. A short thread on what we found 🧵
We are excited to announce that our recent collaborative paper, led by the superstar duo Rebekah Nicholson and Luis Cedeño-Rosario, which identified how ceramides alter mitochondrial structure and function after acute kidney injury was selected to participate in #STATMadness! Check it the press release here: tinyurl.com/y2pk2tcy
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Starting the 2026 with excellent news! Congratulations to graduate students Queren Alcantara (@queren_alcca) and James Carrington for receiving the AHA Predoctoral Fellowship! @AHAScience@UofUBiochem@hhmi_science 🔬🧪🌟
#RedoxBio25 kicked off yesterday with a fantastic opening talk from Jared Rutter (@RutterLab) on “Evolution of Metabolic Regulation.”
A great start to an exciting conference!
We are excited to announce our 2025 @UofUDMRC Postdoctoral Rising Stars in Metabolism Symposium! This is truly a unique opportunity to network, present your research, and enjoy the breathtaking views that Salt Lake City has to offer. Deadline is May 15th, 2025. Please share!
Grateful for another day of outstanding science at the cancer metabolism symposium @NYASciences. Feeling lucky to see so much amazing basic and translational metabolism work over 10 years of symposia with this guy @LyssiotisLab. Here’s to the next 10 years of metabolism research!