We’re hiring! Our department is recruiting for a tenure-track faculty position. We seek outstanding candidates working broadly in molecular microbiology, immunology, and host–pathogen interactions. Please share widely! @jnpruneda.bsky.social @rauchlab.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Wan’t to be faculty at a collegial host-pathogen focused department in a beautiful bikable city with amazing food? This link is for you: facultycareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/39006/a...

🚨Preprint alert ! Alexis Gibson, a @hhmi-science.bsky.social Hannah Grey fellow, reports on our fun collaboration with PNNL. We used standard label-free MS to analyze caspase cleavage products in primary intestinal epithelial cells post inflammasome activation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/2

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PacTB is back in Portland on April 8–9, 2026! West Coast TB folks (Bay Area, WA, Vancouver)—especially grad students & postdocs—please join us! Great chance to present + network. Abstract deadline: TODAY Registration deadline: Apr 1 www.eventbrite.com/e/pactb-2026...

Glad to see this news story highlighting our recent lipid interactome database, a resource we hope will help the broader scientific community. @ohsummi.bsky.social @ohsunews.bsky.social news.ohsu.edu/2026/02/25/n...

Our paper on The Lipid Interactome is now published, and the database is open: lipidinteractome.org @ohsummi.bsky.social @ohsunews.bsky.social @nadlerlab.bsky.social @jeremybaskin.bsky.social Please RT to spread the word. doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

Big career update:  I’m honored and humbled to serve as Chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Looking forward to what we’ll build together! @ohsummi.bsky.social @ohsunews.bsky.social

How do lipids shape life? I explore this question in my recent talk for the Build-a-Cell 🦠 seminar series. Thanks to @kateadamala.bsky.social for hosting! Watch it here: youtu.be/JnF7hPCiSbI?...

It was fun writing this book chapter on methods to trace #lipid metabolism. Congrats to Alec and Helene for their effort. Thanks to @jeremybaskin.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute this chapter. @ohsunews.bsky.social @ohsummi.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

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Can GLP-1 drugs reduce the incidence of cancer, independent of weight loss? Results from cohort studies are encouraging for many types (Figure) and clinical trials are ongoing nature.com/articles/s43...

Excited to share our first collaborative paper of the year- a review on the emerging roles of lipids in flavivirus infection, now published in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social. Congrats to Judah (postdoc) for spearheading the work! @ohsunews.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@tafesselab.bsky.social Ronald Schnaar Julie Saba Ashley Cowart @gioelelamanno.bsky.social @nadlerlab.bsky.social Jurgen Seibel Markus Wenk

Join us for the 2026 Glycolipid & Sphingolipid Biology Gordon Research Conference (GRC). 📍 Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco (Italy) 🗓️ March 22 - 27, 2026 Theme: "Molecular Codes of Cell Identity and Recognition" #LipidResearch #Sphingolipids #GRC2026 #ScienceConference #Lipidtime

Had a blast at the OHSU Chemical Biology & Physiology meeting this week! Amazing talks, great to see lab alum Brittany White-Mathieu’s developing program at UNH, reconnect with friends and collaborators, meet some of the next generation of #chembio, and explore Portland!

And the saga continues! Our collaborative work with outstanding Justin Korfhage & Thomas Melia’s lab in PNAS shows that ATG2A transfers triglycerides and does so bidirectionally! An exciting twist in our understanding of lipid transport. Definitely worth a deep read: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Beautiful work! Congrats @abdourachidthiam.bsky.social and the team!

Cool new paper (www.jbc.org/article/S002... from my lab spearheaded by graduate students Sushant @sushantsuresh.bsky.social and Alex @alexlouiseshaw.bsky.social . This was a very cool collaboration with the Scott Hansen, Jennifer Cobb, Tamas Balla labs

Excited to share our study out in @natcellbio.nature.com! Led by @mikelangelipid.bsky.social, we identify the first #LipidDroplet lipid quality control pathway: LD-localized FSP1 protects stored lipids from oxidative damage and prevents LD-initiated #ferroptosis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ACSChemBio and #Biochemistry invite submissions to a special issue on Lipids and Lipidation guest edited by @chembiobryan.bsky.social and me! Find details in the #CallforPapers and submit your exciting findings to one of these journals by May 31, 2026. axial.acs.org/chemical-bio... #lipidtime

Proud to share a preprint of our paper on how bridge-like lipid transport protein VPS13C senses lysosomal membrane tension in anticipation of membrane lesions to initiate net ER-to-lysosome lipid transfer for efficient lysosomal repair www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Have you published lipid-protein interactome data? Please let us know, we’d love to include it in the repository. The goal is to build a centralized hub for the scientific community. Huge thanks to Gaelen Guzman, a graduate student/postdoc in the lab who built it from scratch.

We're hiring! Check out our ad and please re-post or forward to interested #Microbiology parties: apply.interfolio.com/174783

🌶️ Lipids bring the heat 🔥 Lipids don’t just shape membranes, they influence cellular metabolism. We show that tuning lipidome composition strongly alters metabolic heat flow in the minimal cell JCVI-Syn3B 🦠 Fantastic collaboration with Karim Fahmy’s lab (HZDR) 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out today in @nature.com: Together with the Honigmann, Shevchenko, Drobot and Hof labs, we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Indeed, this is a fantastic work from the lab of @nadlerlab.bsky.social. Congratulations André and the team!

Have you published lipid-protein interactome data? Please let us know, we’d love to include it in the repository. The goal is to build a centralized hub for the scientific community. Huge thanks to Gaelen Guzman, a graduate student/postdoc in the lab who built it from scratch.

🚨 new paper alert 🚨 Here, we present a method for designing protein nanoparticles with two unique faces that can bring together distinct biological targets at controlled distances! This project was led by Dr. Sanela Rankovic is out now in Nature Materials: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great news!! Does anyone know what bill will determine NIH funding levels?

Promoted to Full Professor with tenure! This wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible trainees, past & present, who made the science & the journey meaningful. Grateful to my mentors, colleagues, & collaborators. Excited for what’s next- here to the future! 🙌

Excited to share our new preprint 🥳. We dev’ed a high-affinity nanobody that binds MR1 & blocks MR1-restricted T cell activation, a powerful tool to dissect MR1 biology in infection, inflammation & cancer. @jburkevic.bsky.social @ohsunews.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It’s finally out! Started this project as a PhD student in the @holthuislab.bsky.social lab & finished by my PhD student. Full-circle moment and the end of an era. 😊 Thanks to Gaelen and everyone who made this happen. @ohsummi.bsky.social @ohsunews.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40473211/

Excited to share our latest preprint! Using integrated global lipidomics and proteomics, we show that SARS-CoV-2 variants induce conserved changes in host lipid metabolism pathways. Congrats to Scotty for leading the work. @ohsummi.bsky.social @ohsunews.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This cool study on compounds that can kill Plasmodium inside mosquitoes and can be applied to bed-nets was contributed to by the Riscoe lab at MMI!

Have you ever wondered how repeated vaccination shapes our immune responses, and whether timing between doses matters? Check out our latest work! @ohsunews.bsky.social @ohsummi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Congratulations to the groups of Eric Barklis and @tafesselab.bsky.social for reporting an analysis of factors that regulate HIV-1 fusion in reverse pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Excellent work!

I had an amazing time visiting University of Victoria @uvic.ca It was wonderful meeting students and faculty- thank you so much, John Burke @jburkevic.bsky.social, for hosting me! #lipids and #nanobodies

The early bird deadline may have passed but there is still plenty of time to register and submit abstracts for the 2025 FEBS/ICC! Come to historic Varna for sun, sea, and sphingolipid science!!

The Obeid award was created to honor the legacy of the late, great Lina Obeid, a giant of the Sphingolipid field and a strong proponent of women in science. We are privileged to present this award at FEBS/ICC 2025 and are very grateful to CaymanChemical for their sponsorship.

The Kester award honors the legacy of Mark Kester, a sphingolipid researcher with an entreprenurial drive, and a leader in sphingolipid therapies, particularly ceramide nanoliposomes. We will present the award at FEBS/ICC 13 2025 and thank CaymanChemical for their sponsorship.

This is terrible for science, and will have huge consequences!