Last week we said goodbye to one of the founding members of our lab. Birgit joined the lab as a postdoc @MPI_MolGen & rejoined when the lab moved to the @MPIAGE. She did incredible science, served as our lab manager & trained generations of junior scientists. You will be missed!
The Innes lab that was shut down last week shares contiguous space with other research facilities. Experiments are being aborted every day during the shutdown, according to faculty, including projects months in the testing. @the_real_sand
Read more: https://t.co/hoQgfzu3Hq
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://t.co/2I7IpaYoKb
BREAKING: The USDA told IU to lock down the lab of Professor Roger Innes, a biologist and former employer of deported Chinese postdoc Youhuang Xiang. Three other labs were locked down at the same time as well as several offices @WFIUWTIUNews
https://t.co/l0qgZ35Qz6
Universities in Indiana will have to conduct a “foreign influence and research security review” for students from adversarial nations going into engineering and scientific fields.
https://t.co/PTkCON8yM6
For 40+ years, we’ve known how UCP1 drives thermogenesis—but how UCP1-independent pathways are activated remained unknown. Thrilled to share our @Nature paper, led by Faiz Hussain, uncovering this mechanism:
https://t.co/0pJFQPDV9V
Happy to share our latest metabo-devo paper: https://t.co/NqmfPQWbQC.
#Drosophila larvae increase their body mass 200-fold in just 5 days. We show that endocrine signaling reprograms intestinal #metabolism to support this unbridled growth, with later consequences on adult fitness
Congratulations to Fox lab postdoc Archan Chakraborty @archan24 - he will be starting his own lab at @AUG_University this fall! Professor Chakraborty's lab will focus on polyploidy in the heart of flies and humans.
Happy to share my review with @TongBian@RobertoZoncu on mechanism of nutrient sensing by mTORC1, now available in @TrendsBiochem. We highlight the recent structural elucidations of the pathway. Hope it is as useful and enjoyable for you as it was for us! https://t.co/6H9kNMPKXX
A new study (@MolecularCell) shows that lactate is more than a metabolic byproduct: it can directly activate the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) independently of its conversion to pyruvate. 🔬⚡ #Metabolism#Mitochondria
https://t.co/7MrAwsqSaW
IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our paper. Upon pushback, IU fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision. Letter from the editors to come.
IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our paper. Upon pushback, IU fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision. Letter from the editors to come.
Not happy. Censorship isn’t the way.
I gave money to IU general fund for the IDS last year, so they could pay everyone and not run a deficit. I gave more than they asked for.
I told them I’m happy to help because the IDS is important to kids at IU
🚨New @biorxivpreprint: We model the splicing disease Verheij syndrome using C. elegans. Disruption of methionine and phospholipid metabolism drives growth defects; vitamin #B12 restores the balance and rescues development! #metabolism#RNAsplicing
https://t.co/L24VjbMz5o
I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals combining evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, and genetics. More info here: https://t.co/uXGhUy5ZZc