Lipid people, this one is special! The registration for the EMBO "Lipid Code to Life" meeting is now open. An extraordinary opportunity for the lipid community to connect and share cutting-edge science. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! #GoLipids meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip...

Interested in lipids? Join us @ the 2026 FASEB Lipid Droplet: From Mechanisms to Disease Conference (July 26-30, Scottsdale, AZ). Registration is now open! events.faseb.org/event/Lipid-... We are co-locating with the FASEB Phospholipids SRC! Register for one to enjoy BOTH meetings!

Happy new year! I've so enjoyed the end-of-year lists of people's favorite papers from 2025, so I made a list of 16 #lipidtime studies from 2025 that I found interesting. Here they are in no particular order (please add more if you would like!), and here's to much more exciting science in 2026! 🧪

Ups we did it again! Please mark your calender. EMBO Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, taking place September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, organized by Maria Fedorova, @lipid.bsky.social, Valerie O'Donnell, @holthuislab.bsky.social and @molcellbiophys-lab.bsky.social 🥳 Retweets = lipidlove

☕ @mikelangelipid.bsky.social @olzmannlab.bsky.social & co identify a #LipidDroplet quality control pathway in which FSP1 safeguards stored neutral lipids from lipid peroxidation, thereby preventing the induction of #ferroptosis. @berkeleymcb.bsky.social bit.ly/49mTeyF

Excited to share my postdoc work @olzmannlab.bsky.social! We found lipid droplets, the cell’s lipid storage depots, are subject to oxidative damage and are protected by FSP1. Loss of FSP1 triggers droplet peroxidation and cell death, revealing a new layer of lipid quality control! shorturl.at/B5XYD

We're growing! Our newest Investigator @henrydebelly.bsky.social will join the CRI Tissue #Regeneration Program in January 2026. Learn more about Henry ➡️ cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henr... and 📌apply to research in his lab cri.utsw.edu/careers

Excited to share our new preprint, led by Kirandeep Deol! 🤩 Genetic screens uncover mechanisms regulating FSP1 abundance in cancer. Vitamin B2 metabolism promotes FSP1 stability via FAD synth / binding, further linking nutrient metabolism to ferroptosis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The count down has begun! 1-week until the 1st FASEB Ferroptosis conference! Looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting. Get excited!! 🤩 events.faseb.org/event/11797f...

My third paper from grad school is out on Biorxiv! This was a fun collaboration with @olzmannlab.bsky.social where we show that Ferroptosis Suppressor Protein-1 is a better target than GPX4 because it disrupts Treg function while leaving effector T cell function intact.

New preprint w/ the Dupage lab led by @jgcastillo.bsky.social! FSP1 KO in Tregs / Tcells promotes tumor suppression, highlighting the therapeutic value potential of FSP1 inhibition. New paradigm for targeting ferroptosis in immune system (not just in cancer cells). 🤩 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

FYI - We've extended abstract submission deadline to June 8. Submit soon to be considered for a short talk. Come join us at the first FASEB #Ferroptosis meeting! It's going to be awwwwesome! 🤩 events.faseb.org/event/11797f...

The world is small... Randomly found out that @mikelangelipid.bsky.social and I are both in Osaka, so we met up for some drinks and #lipidtime talk.

Our team (hsph.harvard.edu/research/ube...) is excited to have contributed to the intranodal in vivo testing of the remarkable new compound, Fentomycin-1. Congrats to team Rodriguez et al. for the implications of this work in targeting ferroptosis in cancer. Check it out here!

Excited to see our N&V w/ @mikelangelipid.bsky.social published in Nature, highlighting new work from Raphael Rodriguez and team. A heterofunctional molecule that activates lysosomal iron triggers lipid peroxidation and ferroptosis in therapy-resistant cancer cells. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fantastic new study from Raphael Rodriguez' lab shows that induced proximity concepts can be used to induce Ferroptosis! Inducing proximity of lysosomal iron and lipids induces lipid peroxidation! What a cool concept! Have a look at our News/Views with @olzmannlab.bsky.social shorturl.at/cbc8D

**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated. www.spencer.org/grant_types/... hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j... Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !

Join for the first FASEB Ferroptosis conference in the US this July! This stellar speaker line up brings together almost all leaders in the field!

Join us next week: Bits and Bites on May 8, from 9-1pm, on Zoom. Registration and payment here: na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.p... We will present and discuss the best practice for #Quality Control and Quality Assurance. #metabolomics #NMR #GC-MS #LC-MS @mikelangelipid.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk

Fantastic study out today by superstar postdoc @aakritijain.bsky.social! It identifies the unresolved function of LyLAP, a protein associated with poor prognosis in PDAC. It is not a phospholipase but a membrane protein protease! Happy that I could help through our untargeted lipidomics platform

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

RIP any human subjects methods section: women, gender, female, excluded RIP math/stats: biases, marginalise, equality, inequality, group, inclusive RIP social sciences: status, systemic, political, group, socioeconomic, institutional, cultural This is not just evil it is also SO VERY DUMB

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel. I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times! Pls repost 🙏❤️

Excited to share our new preprint! Exceptional work by @mikelangelipid.bsky.social identifies the first #LipidDroplet lipid quality control pathway! LD-localized FSP1 safeguards neutral lipids from peroxidation and prevents #ferroptosis. 🤩https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631537v1

I am excited to report the preprint of my postdoc work in the @olzmannlab.bsky.social! We have discovered the first lipid droplet quality control pathway with broad implications for lipid physiology and diseases associated with LD accumulation and oxidative stress! #lipidtime shorturl.at/2HqFd

Interested in #organelle biogenesis, subcellular #membrane #protein targeting or #LipidMetabolism? We are hiring! #PhD student or #postdoc. We combine #Biochemistry & #CellBiology with Computational Modeling & Experimental Physics / Physical Chemistry approaches. #research #academicsky #AcademicJob

Happy to see the scientific community thriving at Bluesky! I am a postdoc at UC Berkeley in the @olzmannlab.bsky.social and I combine lipidomics, redox and cell biology and in vitro biochemistry to understand pathways of cellular lipid quality control. Excited to see some cool #LipidTime on here!