It’s was great to be a part of this panel and with colleagues across the college! www.facs.org/for-medical-...

Congrats to Dr. Hagemann! Happy to be a part of this work onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Good news. The House of Representatives stands behind the NIH budget with no cuts.

"As the field embraces a more integrated model of obesity care... there is an urgent need for well-designed, prospective RCTs to define the optimal timing, duration, and effectiveness of GLP-1s and behavioral interventions in this context." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social

We are thrilled to have Dr Reji Babygirija join our efforts to develop novel treatments for AD!

"Fasting is required for many of the benefits of calorie restriction in the 3xTg mouse model of Alzheimer's disease" from first author Dr. Reji Babygirija and with our collabs including @wiscosurgicalmetab.bsky.social is now available online! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trump’s Big Ugly Bill will destroy access to healthcare in rural Wisconsin. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ “This represents the biggest rollback in federal support for health coverage ever.”

I am pleased to report our new manuscript from graduate student Mariah Calubag and collaborators and colleagues, "Tissue-Specific Effects of Dietary Protein on Cellular Senescence Are Mediated by Branched-Chain Amino Acids" is now available! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We thank our many colleagues and collaborators including Isaac Grunow, Reji Babygirija, Michelle Sonsalla, @baileyknopf.bsky.social, @wiscosurgicalmetab.bsky.social and Dr. Adam Konopka who helped make this work possible!

We are beyond thrilled to welcome Drs. Cameron Casson @washumedicine.bsky.social (#AbWall) and Yatee Dave @urochestersmd.bsky.social (#Foregut #Bariatrics) to @wiscsurgery.bsky.social MIS!!

We are lucky to have Dr. Babygirija join us!

Glad to report that this tour de force from our collaborator Caroline Alexander (with a bit of assistance from our lab in the form of Michaela Trautman) is now out: "Dietary lipids are largely deposited in skin and rapidly affect insulating properties" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another win for rapamycin: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to Dr. David Harris, Assistant Professor in @wiscsurgerymis.bsky.social, for receiving a two-year, $311,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging. #ExceptionalPeople @wiscosurgicalmetab.bsky.social Read more: go.wisc.edu/7ampzw

The gutting of US biomedical research with loss of ~2,500 grants affecting research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, infectious disease, global health and much more www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Where was this important 1st randomized trial performed? China Where are 8 of the 10 most productive research institutions in the world as of March 2025? China nature.com/nature-index... What country is radically defunding research and will lose its competitiveness? USA

Congratulations to Dr. Reji Babygirija who received the @uwmadison.bsky.social Distinguished Research Fellowship! So well deserved and welcome to WiSLiM! @wiscsurgery.bsky.social @warfnews.bsky.social @wiscsurgerymis.bsky.social

Finally received a notice of award from the NIA... no time like the present! looking forward to the future discoveries #onwisconsin @wiscsurgery.bsky.social

Hard saying goodbye to Julia! She’s been a WiSLiM rock from the beginning… good luck in Medical School. Your future patients are lucky to have you.

Proud to share the work of my forst ever PhD student and first author of this paper @dylanduerre.bsky.social!! Here, he summarizes it perfectly! #brownfat #metabolism #BCAA #heme @uwmadison.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social

Congratulations to all those who matched this week!

Let's talk about the uncertain future of scientific funding. 🔬💰 A new blog post on The Academic Surgeon explores the challenges facing young investigators and the impact of recent NIH funding changes. ➡️ Read the post: buff.ly/QKrDO6p

The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the Trump administration’s policy changes has researchers shocked. https://go.nature.com/3CMl75y

Born from a vision to fuel research at #UWMadison, WARF's founding principles remain steadfast: to promote, encourage and aid scientific investigation. This commitment to discovery has driven a century of innovation and continues to shape our mission today. #WARF100 https://www.warf.org/about-warf/

thanks to all our collaborators inside and outside the lab, including @wiscosurgicalmetab.bsky.social and Konopka Lab!

Hard to beat these moonlight office views! @uwmadison.bsky.social is the real point of optimization…

Congrats to Julia and Grace for excellent presentations today the UW department of surgery research day! #OnWisconsin

Thanks UMich surgery, JustinDimickMD, NabeelObeidMD, @seeleyrj.bsky.social, NadejdaKramerPhD, Gifty KwakyeMD, and many others for a fantastic visit and thanks for letting me nerd out about metabolism. I’m looking forward to many future discussions and collaborations! #UWisconsinSurgery

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Congrats to Leah Braucher, UW-Madison SMPH MS4 and future surgeon rockstar for her @sages.org podium presentation! Come hear about the interaction between resistance exercise, protein intake, bariatric surgery, and metabolism

I listened for 54,860 minutes in 2024. What about you? #SpotifyWrapped It’s been a good music year

As program chair of WSS, I can say without reservation that we worked hard to put on a successful and engaging event! I am looking forward to next year and the second annual crowing of the Top Gun team

Pleased to announce the publication of our new manuscript, "Late-life protein or isoleucine restriction impacts physiological and molecular signatures of aging" in Nature Aging today! www.nature.com/articles/s43... Free link: rdcu.be/d1DGk

Nice work @lamminglab.bsky.social and to my graduate student Jess Davidson who led this collaboration!Always fun to science with friends.

I am excited for the next phase in our lab's life... happy to be a new Wisconsin Alz Dz Research Center REC scholar!

Julia crushing her talk @WiscSurgery Research Day! @WiscMIS Look out med world, she’s building quite the career

In case you thought the background science and path for development of GLP-1 drugs to tackle obesity was quick and easy! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out our new review on clinical trials of #rapamycin! A pleasure to write this with Adam Konopka and our collaborators @uwmadscience.bsky.social and beyond! link.springer.com/article/10.1...