Katalin Susztak receiving the Homer W. Smith Award at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week

Jeff Friedman receiving the Obesity Society Presidential Medal at the Obesity Week

I thought i was being brilliant scoring a seat with extra leg room.

Lactate biosensor

The second highest approval rating historically for the first female Japanese Prime Minister.

What else could you ask for on a birthday morning

I can only be happy for Dave Roberts who gave us that stolen base

ye olde tailgateth

Still the funniest thing I've seen on the internet

HIIT

Precious Opurum now presenting at the Basic Research Forum for Emerging Kidney Scientists

Stephen Decker presenting now at the Basic Research Forum for Emerging Kidney Scientists

Our very first Seminars in Metabolsim speaker since rebranding the former DMRC into the Center of Metabolic Health! We had a chance to welcome our good friend Patrick Seale that described his new work not just in the adipose but also in the smooth muscle.

I thank the almighty for middle school drama teachers

If you regularly donate, donate early and donate now. If you have never donated, the food bank needs your help more than ever.

At Chile-Tepin, celebrating Guoshen's defense, where a large quantity of food was consumed.

The "Two-Hit Model" for our Benning Lecture. The famous metabolic model of cardiovascular disease that has revolutionized mechanistic studies not just for HFpEF but also for many obesity co-morbidities in humans.

I'll be at the Obesity Week in Atlanta Nov 4-6, and Kidney Week in Houston Nov 7-9. Would love to catch up with my science nerds.

Fall

5 boys, 5 yrs of age, 5 hikes. Passed on my father's tradition that he started 40 years ago.

At the Inaugural Cardiorenal Metabolic Center (CRMC) Symposium. I am pleasantly surprised how natural the marriage of topics in kidney and heart feels. It is also very timely particularly with the GLP1s strongly influencing the way nephrologists and cardiologists practice.

still doing this after tenure

Congratulations to Guoshen Cao for successfully defending her doctoral dissertation! She discovered an unexpected role for hepatic phospholipids in VLDL secretion. Her findings will be uploaded to biorxiv shortly.

I am officially the most important person on the planet

Sanae Takaichi is now Japan's first female prime minister. This was unimaginable not long ago.

I told you to stay in your bed, buddy

An updated preprint now includes segmented bioenergetic assessment of human kidney samples from rejected transplants or non-tumor resection. This methodological breakthrough allows for a highly-adaptable, rapid, and non-genetic means to separate heterogeneous tissues to profile OXPHOS.

Tis the season

An updated preprint now includes segmented bioenergetic assessment of human kidney samples from rejected transplants or non-tumor resection. This methodological breakthrough allows for a highly-adaptable, rapid, and non-genetic means to separate heterogeneous tissues to profile OXPHOS.

Just noticed that it's been exactly 20 yrs since one of my all-time favorite exercise physiology paper came out. An elegant design directly testing a simple but provocative hypothesis that training diminishes, not enhances, the ability of acute exercise to stimulate AMPK. doi.org/10.1113/jphy...

A short hike out

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Had a chance to visit Cincinnati to present at their 39th Ohio Physiological Society meeting. I did not realize there are seven medical schools in the state, and robust science representations from all of them and other schools.

Three years ago in Awaji

Our 8th paper this year!

Missense mutations in cGAS (S463, E511, Y527, T530) explains the exceptional longevity in naked mole rats

I was preparing this slide to acknowledge all the trainees that have performed their theses in my lab. There has been more than 60 people who have worked in my laboratory in the last 12 yrs, but seeing their faces I was overcome with gratitude for the chance that I had to educate these scientists.

My son is back for his Fall break so I have an extra set of plates and utensils to clean up. And an extra pair of socks. Also more food. Also loud.

Alternatively Spliced Citrate Synthase Supports Colorectal Cancer url: aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar... Have a look at our views on a recent, very interesting paper on alternative splice variants of citrate synthase.

Among reasons for discontinuation of GLP-1 medicines initiated for #weightlossdue cost or insurance-related issues was the most common reason cited onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I want to remind everyone that AMPK is NOT "AMP kinase", as that designation goes to the adenylate kinase. The acronym that Grahame Hardie coined stands for "AMP-activated protein kinase".

I made this recently

Behold, our Department Chair, our Center Director, an extramural funding oligarch who is also supposed to be on his sabbatical, cleaning up everyone else's mess after our poster session. (Like he was actually doing this so I went over to take a pic, this is not a setup

My son made a 22-min stop-motion movie with pearler beads

Catching up with friends that came in town to celebrate the grand opening of the Center of Metabolic Health at the University of Utah.

Trying to log into Eduroam

My money league lineup includes CeeDee Lamb, Malik Nabers, and Tyreek Hill, you're welcome

Fall