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Studying how metabolic pathways listen to environmental signals. Using worms, cells, and mice at UMASS Medical school.

Worcester, MA
Joined June 2016
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#METPHYS2024 @JBSpinelli is sharing a new key to unlocking the potential of the ETC
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Still looking for a MSC or PhD position for Summer/Fall 2024? The Scharf lab is hiring! Come work with me on C. elegans populations and study aging!
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Jessica Spinelli, PhD, believes sharing goals and approaches to discovery with other researchers can bring about new knowledge, even when the diseases in play are very different. Learn why: direc.to/ka7d #AdvancingTogether @JBSpinelli @ProgMolMed
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RESEARCH | Led by David Guertin (@UMassChan): The authors perform a characterization in vivo of metabolic flux distribution during #thermogenesis & uncover BAT nutrient fluxes & unexpected inter-organ metabolic crosstalk & glutamine utilization. nature.com/articles/s42255-0…
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Amy Walker Lab retweeted
Replying to @GeneticsGSA
@GeneticsGSA #tagc The C. elegans committee for the Allied Genetics Meeting March 6-10, 2024 is excited to be announcing featured speakers and exciting programming leading up to the Nov. 19 abstract deadline. Stay tuned! genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/
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I'm so excited to be joining @UWMadisonCRB and @UWCQCI in the fall! If you're a fan of developmental cell biology and are interested in joining us at @UWMadison as an incoming graduate student or postdoc, I would love to hear from you! @CMB_UWMadison @LabNance
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Congratulations to @EgriShawn on earning the PhD!
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@CastilloQuan_JI & Keith Blackwell lab 👏 🔑”…an unexpected mechanism of FA signal transduction, as well as a lipid homeostasis pathway that provides strategies for opposing steatosis and aging, and may mediate some benefits of the OA-rich Mediterranean diet.” @ScienceAdvances
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Excited for the 2022 Mello Scholar Awards given to PMM's Sasha Lee, I-Hao Wang, Zinger Yang and Li-Tzu Chen @sashalee9 @zingery @RogerJDavis1 @RDavisLab @Greer_Lab @CorveraLab @JoannaJinZ @UMassChanGSBS @UMassChan
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New dropbox has been set up at UMass Medical School Biotech II @UMassChan in Worcester, MA! Pickups are Tuesdays at 3PM, located outside Suite 213 in Biotech2 at 373 Plantation Street. Thanks to Greg Pazour for hosting this new box! 🥳🥳🥳
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Postdoctoral position in the lab to work on gene regulation in early development or on viral perturbation of gene regulatory networks. If interested please DM!
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Mary Munson, Professor, University of Massachusetts Chan School of Medicine has been name a 2022 ASCB Fellow. Congratulations! @UMassChan @mary_munson4 ⚛️ascb.org/society-news/eighte…
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Congratulations to PMM's 2022 Mello Scholars: Sasha Lee, I-Hao Wang, Zinger Yang and Li-Tzu Chen!! @sashalee9 @zingery @RogerJDavis1 @RDavisLab @Greer_Lab @CorveraLab @JoannaJinZ @UMassChanGSBS @UMassChan
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The Watson Lab opens this fall at @UMassChan in the Dept. of Sys. Bio! Grateful for all my friends in @elledge_stephen lab, I will miss you. If you enjoy meddling with chromosomes & hate cancer, join us! #newPI #chromosomes #cancer Tech Opening: ummsjobs.com/job/8569/
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Letter from Editors-in-Chief of Aging Cell announcing their resignations due to issues in running the journal
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In a truly bizarre sequel to Cronenberg’s The Fly, I have morphed from a fly guy to a worm germ by joining @akwalker_lab at UMass Chan Medical Center. I feel just a little guilty for how much I like the worms already?
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