💥I am excited to present our first research paper from the lab about caveolae lipid trafficking 🎉 Led by my fantastic PhD candidate @estherocket.bsky.social Here we looked into caveolae mediated dietary lipid uptake and how this process is mechanistically facilitated 👇 1/n

Attending #CellBio2025? Come see the Cohen Lab - Monday will be a busy day for us, including my theatrical debut in WICB "Scripts of Success" skits!

Thrilled to share our latest work showing that the bridge lipid transport protein ATG2A transfers diacylglycerol (DAG), and some TAG/PA, from the ER to LDs, thereby recruiting DGAT2 to drive local TAG synthesis, promoting LD expansion while protecting ER membranes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our @ascbiology.bsky.social #CellBio2025 Minisymposium on ER Homeostasis. With THIS speaker lineup, this event will be as dynamic, transformative and productive as the ER itself! So don’t 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦, 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚 yourselves over and join us to 𝗡𝗘𝗧𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 in world of the ER. (All PUNS intended.)

Proud to share our study on #LipidDroplet #Motility #Mitochondria #MembraneContactSite now in Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! Big thanks to @rwedlichsoldner.bsky.social, @flofroehlich.bsky.social, @ruferbus.bsky.social, Daniel Kümmel lab, Thomas Becker lab! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Fat storage in the body relies on specialized structures called lipid droplets. In a new Science study, researchers identified the microprotein adipogenin as a regulator of adipocyte lipid droplet size, revealing a key mechanism in lipid homeostasis. Learn more this week: https://scim.ag/4nFEGO7

New paper in Science identifying adipogenin as a critical seipin regulator in LD biogenesis. So glad our lab could help a little in this monumental study. Congrats to all authors! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy Halloween from the Henne lab!

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...

Looking forward to #UNCResearchWeek! I'll be presenting my lab's work on #organelles in physiology and neurodegenerative disease on Monday, October 20

Great Endoplasmic Reticulum meeting in Paris organized by the amazing Eric Chevet @ericchevet.bsky.social! It was wonderful to also hang out with James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social and Rachid Thiam @abdourachidthiam.bsky.social.

Another great EMBO #LipidDroplets workshop in Sant Feliu de Guixols! Many thanks to Maria Bohnert, Robin Klemm, and Bianca Schrul for the wonderful organization!

My awesome Drosophila colleague Akhila Rajan at Fred Hutch (Seattle) is recruiting both a staff scientist and a postdoc to study fat–brain communication, innate immunity, mitochondrial signaling, and brain senescence. Great team, great environment. Apply here: careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30062/j...

Wonderful to see our paper on the #organelle signatures of #neurons and #astrocytes out in final form - congratulations, Shannon Rhoads and team!🎉 t.co/BPxKlbU6Ou

A pleasure to write this short review on lipid droplets for @jcb.org together with Will Prinz and amazing artist Emma Reynolds! We discuss 5 pervasive questions surrounding these remarkable little lipid organelles. doi.org/10.1083/jcb....

Great department! Most departments at UT Southwestern are actively or will soon be actively recruiting new PIs. Please consider joining us!

Quite a week for #lipidtime: phenomenal study using bifunctional lipid probes to quantify intracellular lipid transport from @nadlerlab.bsky.social and colleagues is now out @nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’ve used these dyes and they’re great! #lipidtime

Thank you indeed-great read and excellent discussion on our recent papers identifying molecular mechanisms that (I) connect cellular forces to organelles and (II) enable elaborate membrane systems to respond to mechanical challenge

Join us on Sept 18th as we welcome Dr. @sesmalab.bsky.social to our PROVIDES Seminar Series. Dr. Fernández-Sesma will lead a research seminar on Immune responses to dengue virus infection and vaccination. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn about her research efforts.

Thankful to @jcb.org and @lammerdinglab.bsky.social for highlighting our work together with work from @schliekerlab.bsky.social on the endoplasmic reticulum and proteins that influence ER shape and mechanical properties.

Love cell biology? Come be our neighbor! The Dept of Cell Biology at UT Southwestern is advertising two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions. Generous startup & a great academic community. See ads below: jobs.utsouthwestern.edu/job/22292356... jobs.utsouthwestern.edu/job/22292357...

Want to share your work at the premiere meeting of the minds between basic membrane biology and therapeutics? Short talk deadline is coming up Oct. 8, 2025. www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

@olzmannlab.bsky.social @tgalli.bsky.social @demangelab.bsky.social @agostinislab.bsky.social @abdourachidthiam.bsky.social @molinarilab-er.bsky.social @hennelab.bsky.social @jdejuan-sanz.bsky.social

Thrilled this paper is out! We solved the first cocrystal structure of FSP1 with an inhibitor (FSEN1), providing mechanistic insight & a foundation for medchem. Led by Amalia Megarioti & Sitao Zhang. A terrific collaboration with Da Jia. Brief Skytorial! 1/9

We had a great kick-off of our Lipid Metabolism & Neurodegenerative Disease Mini-symposium! Many thanks to all speakers and attendees! #UTSW_science

Beautiful science and scenery at the #CSMetabolites2025 meeting in Sitges, Spain.

Proud present our latest work led by Blessy Paul, now in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. Here, we characterize an ER-localized antioxidant enzyme in humans and Drosophila that acts as a lipid quality control factor to suppress ER lipid oxidation. www.cell.com/developmenta...

🚨 Abstract deadline 🚨 48th European Lipoprotein Club: eas-elc.org 👉 April 24th. If you love metabolism and related disorders this meeting is for you. Speakers: Ana Paula Arruda, Oliver Bruns, Antje Körner, Claudia Monaco, and Keynote Phil Scherer plus 35 talks selected from abstracts! Please repost

Really interesting work identifying Drosophila gut hormone tachykinin, which influences appetite, sleep, and lifespan. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Wonderful post-doctoral opportunity in the Bonifacino lab!

Very proud of post-doc Holly Merta @hollymerta.bsky.social and her work characterizing Calmin, a molecular tether that regulates focal adhesion dynamics. If you want to learn more about Holly's work, please see this UTSW Newsroom article: www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/art...

🚨 The April 13 deadline to submit abstracts for short talk consideration is coming up fast! Trainees and early-career researchers—don’t miss your chance to present your work and be eligible for talk and poster prizes at @faseborg.bsky.social #FASEB2025 #ERSRC

Important to celebrate trainee victories: excited to have Holly Merta's @hollymerta.bsky.social paper out! We use TurboID sub-organelle proteomics to map the ER network. We find calmin/CLMN, an ER-to-actin tether regulating focal adhesions & cell motility. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Groundbreaking study in Cell from @leventallab.bsky.social: phospholipid asymmetry is a defining feature of the plasma membrane and cholesterol fills the holes — major implications for how this membrane works. A #lipidtime must-read! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Really interesting plant work in @Dev_Cell examining ER sub-domains where peroxisomes and lipid droplets bud. www.cell.com/developmenta...

Come to St. Louis this summer for the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation MitoMed 2025 Conference! We have a fantastic line up with lots of opportunities for short talks. We're also running a Masterclass for Early Career Investigators. More info here: www.umdfconference.org

I am beyond thrilled to co-organize this FASEB #LipidDroplet conference with Mike @hennelab.bsky.social in 2026! Check out the lineup and plan to participate - you do not want to miss this one!! #lipidtime

Mark your calendars & repost! Join us for the 2026 FASEB Lipid Droplets Conference! July 26-30, 2026 in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona. Best of all: The FASEB Lipid Droplet meeting is co-locating with the FASEB Phospholipid meeting. Two wonderful lipid communities brought together!

Senior graduate students and postdocs, here is a great opportunity to network, showcase your science and get to know Cornell and beautiful Ithaca! Please repost.

Very cool new study showing compositonally unique mitochondria in filopodia that support cell migration.

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💞 For this #FluorescenceFriday, lots of lovely lipid droplets (pink) are shown in adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #Science #Valentines

Want to follow developments in the field of inter-organelle communication? Follow Contact @contactctc.bsky.social and its latest publications!

Please welcome Contact: The Journal of Inter-Organelle Communication @contactctc.bsky.social to Bluesky!

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 #protein targeting, physicochemical #membrane properties or #LipidMetabolism? 👉 We are hiring! #PhDstudent #postdoc Interdisciplinary projects combining #Biochemistry & #CellBiology with Computational Modeling & Physical Chemistry available.

Happy to announce I am serving as Director of the Lipid Metabolism & Neurodegenerative Diseases (LMND) Program at UTSW. Our goal is to stimulate collaborations bridging lipid metabolism & neurological disease. So proud of our lab & their cell biology adventures! #onward_science

Really interesting spatial proteomics study of organelles now in @cellcellpress.bsky.social. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Beautiful day in sunny San Diego for ASCB #CellBio2024!