🚨Thrilled to share our new preprint from my postdoc work in the
@RutterLab
! The latest outcome of our close collaboration with
@gsducker
and
@StavrosDrakos
labs, where we uncovered something big: mitochondria directly import lactate as fuel in the heart!
@HHMINEWS
@UofUBiochem
"The development and publishing of the MIDAS platform has been a long road.
@KevinGHicks
deserves the lion’s share of the credit for making it happen. We have had an amazing and large group of collaborators that have contributed in essential ways" -JR 1/2
We ordered some DMEM media from
@fishersci
, and were surprised with a pair of brand-new Air Jordans packed with the shipment!!! Best cross-promotion ever?! Are we supposed to wear the shoes to avoid contamination?
#MitoMonday
#AcademicTwitter
@Nike
@Jumpman23
Our latest paper just came out! Spearheaded by former grad student
@PengWei_
, we show that mitochondrial pyruvate can support lymphoma proliferation by fueling a non-canonical glutamine metabolism pathway.
@RJDLab
@HHMINEWS
@ScienceAdvances
@UofUBiochem
We are proud to share our latest paper, out today on
@Cell_Metabolism
. A collaborative effort with the
@StavrosDrakos
lab and our first foray into the
#heart
field, 40 day free access:
Stay tuned for the tweetorial on next week's
#MitoMonday
.
Looking for an easy way to contextualize your
#omics
data in the metabolic network? Introducing:
#Metaboverse
. A new tool that can pick out regulatory information from experimental data in a slick, interactive interface to simplify your data exploration!
Twenty years of scientific adventures and fine dining! 🥂 The Rutter Lab celebrated its 2 decades of research excellence at Log Haven. Here's to many more years of groundbreaking discoveries and gourmet delights! 🎉🔬🍽️
#RutterLabTurns20
#ScienceAndSteak
@HHMINEWS
@UofUBiochem
This week on
#MitoMonday
we briefly remember and highlight the life and works of one of the most influential scientists of all time Dr. Hans Adolf Krebs.
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab
With 2021 coming to an end, we decided to share our lab's favorite papers of the year!
#MitoMonday
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab
So without further ado, and in no particular order, here is our 10 favorite papers of 2021:
Happy to see the final version of our paper published in
@eLife
! Phenomenal work by
@realjakewinter
on the intersection of mitochondrial protein quality control and cell death!🎉🎈🎊🥳
@HHMINEWS
@UofUBiochem
This week on
#MitoMonday
we briefly highlight the incredible life and works of an exceptional scientist who despite his groundbreaking contributions remains widely unknown to the public. Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow.
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab
Proud to share our latest paper from the graduate work of the extraordinary
@ClaireBensard
, "Regulation of Tumor Initiation by the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier", in collaboration with the Thummel lab, out in
@Cell_Metabolism
today
#MPCforLife
A small lab celebration of
@KevinGHicks
's recent MIDAS paper in
@ScienceMagazine
! (Now that most lab members are back in town) We have been overwhelmed by all the positive feedback and kind words we have received. Thank you!
@HHMINEWS
@UofUBiochem
Happy to share the lab's latest paper where we explored various perturbations that increase mito-membrane potential and identified its mechanisms by exploiting ETC- or ATP synthase-independent machineries.
"Congrats to Yeyun,
@Yeyunouyang
, (and the rest of the authors) for a
This week on
#MitoMonday
we briefly shed light on a living legend and often forgotten unsung hero, who helped develop one of the most useful tools in modern biomedical research, the great Dr. Douglas Prasher.
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab
#MidnightEdition
Congratulations to the phenomenal Dr.
@realjakewinter
for successfully defending his dissertation today! Groundbreaking work, clearly explained, earning a spontaneous standing ovation from the audience at the end! 🎉🍾🥳👏
@HHMINEWS
@UofUBiochem
#PhDone
#MitoFriday
"You mitochondria lovers or those interested to learn more about this fascinating organelle, consider joining us in beautiful Sevilla."-JR
@CellSymposia
@HHMINEWS
#MitoCon
Hot off the press! Our new paper in Molecular Cell describes an elegant pathway in yeast through which mitochondrial ac-CoA regulates its own metabolism. Worth a read! Free access (for 50 days) here:
@MolecularCell
@CellCellPress
#mitochondria
#Metabolism
A great way to start the week! We're proud to present our latest paper, the magnum opus of
@jordanberg0
, published in
@NatureCellBio
! Metaboverse is a user friendly app built by scientists, for scientists to help explore multi-Omics datasets!
@HHMINEWS
@UofUBiochem
#MitoMonday
What a beautiful day to have the lab's annual hike, this year summiting Mount Timpanogos!
-Located in the gorgeous
@UWCNF
-at 11,752 feet above sea level, this is the 2nd highest summit in the Wasatch range
~15 mile roundtrip
~10 grueling hours
-Mountain goats
-1
Tonight on
#MItoMonday
we briefly highlight the life and works of Dr. Mildred Cohn, a true pioneer who completely changed the way we study enzymes by using stable isotope tracing and NMR technology.
#womeninSTEM
#LateNightWIthTheRutterLab
In the midst of all of the debate on CNS papers & chalktalks, you may have missed that just like
@kanyewest
, we dropped a couple of preprints over the weekend! Tonight on
#MitoMonday
we briefly highlight one, and save the other for next week.
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab
#DONDA
Monday, Monday,
#MitoMonday
! Protein-metabolite interactions are the coolest thing since sliced bread and, as promised, tonight we will briefly highlight our recent pre-print describing our platform designed for their systematic discovery.
@Drake
#CLB
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab
Tonight on
#MitoMonday
we briefly highlight the life and works of one of the most extraordinary and influential scientists who won not one, but two Nobel prizes, Dr. Frederick Sanger.
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab
It was a pleasure having both Nimo (
@nimoabdiii
) and Dillon (
@stevens96042
) in the lab this summer. They did a phenomenal job with their projects and absolutely crushed their poster presentations at the
@uofuour
Summer Symposium!
@HHMINEWS
@UofUBiochem
1/6
A bittersweet celebration as we bid farewell to Ahmad Cluntun (
@molecularpepsi
), who's off to start his own lab at Rutgers (
@Beatsbylactate
)! He even gifted Jared a "Bisht" from Saudi Arabia—no Messi here, but Jared's ready for his next faculty meeting! 😄
#LabFamily
#NextChapter
This week on
#MitoMonday
we briefly remember and highlight the life and works of one of the most influential scientists of all time Dr. Hans Adolf Krebs.
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab
"I assume everyone knows this, but I think Ralph Deberardinis is one of the best metabolism scientists in the world. If you haven’t heard him speak recently, I would encourage you to watch tomorrow."-JR
Reminder that anyone can come hear Ralph DeBerardinis
@RJDLab
give his Paul Marks Prize lecture tomorrow in person (ZRC!) or on zoom at 3p EST. Send your questions after the talk and I'll do my best hybrid-moderating!
This week on
#MitoMonday
, we briefly highlight a story of a little-known scientist, Alice Ball, who left a huge impact by developing an effective treatment to leprosy despite passing away at the tragically young age of 24.
#MitoMonday
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab
#WomeninStem
With 2022 coming to an end, we decided to share our lab's favorite papers of the year!
#MitoMonday
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab
So without further ado, and in no particular order, here are our 10 favorite papers of 2022:
Congrats to Dr.
@PengWei_
for successfully defending his PhD thesis titled "An Unexpected Metabolism Crosstalk: Non-canonical convergence of carbohydrate and glutamine metabolism is required in 3D environment" today!
@UofUBiochem
@HHMINEWS
#PhDone
🥂
VERY excited to announce that I just signed an offer to join
@DrRGJonesLab
department
@VAIMetabolism
as an Assistant Professor this summer! Feeling very grateful to all the mentors who helped me get here, especially
@RutterLab
, and excited for all the science to come. Stay tuned!
Don't miss out on a great opportunity to hear from the next generation of talented scientists working on
#mitochondria
, including our very own
@realjakewinter
For our first
#MitoMonday
installment we bring you the first description of mitochondria by Richard Altmann. He called them “bioblasts.” See the thread below for our lab’s translation of his description from the original German text!
#mitochondria
#life
#metabolism
#Deutsch
"Congrats to Ahmad Cluntun on receiving a well-deserved K99/R00. He's making amazing discoveries about the metabolism of cardiomyocytes, and is destined to keep them coming."-JR
@HHMINEWS
@nih_nhlbi
On our
#MitoMonday
weekly series, we have highlighted many scientists who made discoveries by standing on the shoulders of the giants that came before them. Tonight we briefly highlight one such giant; Dr. Karlene Corbit Klages Gunter.
#MitoCal
#MitoMn
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab
This week on
#MitoMonday
, we highlight the work of a living legend in Mitochondrial research, whose work revealed a key role for the mitochondria in apoptosis, Dr. Xiaodong Wang.
#MidnightEdition
Summer student Ajak (
@AjArok2
), mentored by
@LeiferAaron
, did a phenomenal job presenting his research project poster yesterday. It’s been a pleasure having him in the lab & we can’t wait to see all the great things he will accomplish next.
@HHMINEWS
@UofUBiochem
#RisingStar
Tonight on
#MitoMonday
we briefly highlight the life and works of
@NobelPrize
laureate Dr. Albert Claude, who developed cell fractionation & introduced electron microscopy to cell biologists despite having never completed his high school education.
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab
Tonight on
#MitoMonday
we briefly highlight the life an works of Dr. Oliver Lowry, a great biochemist and author of the most highly cited paper of all time.
#LateNightWithTheRutterLab