Hongyuan Rob Yang

Professor studying the transport and storage of lipids at UT Health, Houston, USA and Sydney, Australia. Basketball, tennis. Opinions are my own. He/him.

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

Thanks to @AZadoorian22 for finishing up this review. Lipid droplets are connected with many disease conditions. Here we summarize the latest on the biogenesis and functions of lipid droplets. We discuss a key role for lipid droplets in alleviating cellular stresses.

[Armella Zadoorian @AZadoorian22]

Want to know the latest about #LipidDroplet biogenesis and functions in health and disease?

Check out our @NatureRevEndo paper published online today! https://t.co/yTnO7OHcOk

Thanks @rob8yang for the absolute privilege and joy of writing this with you and @ximingDu!🧵

[Henne_Lab @HenneLab]

With so many great reviews on LDs already out, do we need another?

Sarah @cohenlaboratory & I were approached by @NatRevMCB to organize a review on LD heterogeneity and inter-organelle contacts...topics often in reviews, but not a focus. Fun project!
https://t.co/mSeynTW6vo

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

The NHMRC yesterday announced final allocations for the year. The 2025 success rate for Ideas grants was 10%, Investigator grants 13%, and Clinical Trials 9%.

Australia's total spend on healthcare and technology innovation in medicine and biotech from the Medical Research Endowment Account and Medical Research Future Fund this year will equate to the cost of 0.004 submarines.

We're spending more on a single submarine than we'll spend on medical research in 30 years.

Medical research matters. A clever country invests in the things that matter.

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

@DrZhenqiLiu thanks🤝

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

We wrote a Perspective on the Cover story below. Check it out here https://t.co/cSRGs1N4LH
Adipocytes have developed a unique regulatory mechanism to produce giant, unilocular lipid droplets.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

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 in this week's issue: https://t.co/vBNrgKWeza

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

Great to see you. Also a wonderful visit. I have more scientific friends in Dallas than any other city on this planet.

[The Williams Lab @thewilliamslab]

@rob8yang speaking today @UTSWMedCenter Thursday seminar series!

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

We built upon a key discovery made by @KivancBirsoy and unveiled additional mechanisms for regulating lipid synthesis. CHP1 promotes lipid droplet growth and regulates the localization of key enzymes for triacylglycerol synthesis | PNAS https://t.co/Bwh8qEmHqn

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

@Roy_Lab_Thinks What about the current financial year? What exactly is the next cycle? Thanks

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

Thanks to @pnas for a nice commentary on our recent work by @LabVanni Toward a molecular logic of lipid droplet heterogeneity? | PNAS https://t.co/uGOwccvZI8

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

Glad to see this online. From a random control experiment， we unexpectedly noticed that CIDE proteins and LD-localized ORP proteins cannot coexist on LDs. Through a series of experiments, we show that ORP2/5 keeps CIDE proteins away from LDs by depleting LD surface PI(4)P.

[Cell Biology J-Club @cell_club]

PI(4)P recruits CIDE proteins to promote the formation of unilocular lipid droplets during adipogenesis and hepatic steatosis | PNAS https://t.co/2iZ0LPwpXk

[Zhou Lab @ZhouLabUCR]

Dr. Jack Hu (胡仕新): “More than 40 years ago, I came to America to pursue a dream, arriving at the @UMich with a small suitcase and a thirst for learning. But never in my wildest dreams I’d imagine that I would became the chancellor of @UCRiverside ” 👍
https://t.co/vpRSPMBMQJ

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

@gfairn @DalMedicine @DalPathology Congratulations

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

@amtya21 @JCellBiol Congratulations. But you forgot the first study linking phosphatidic acid, seipin and lipid droplets https://t.co/5JtwCFc4i2

[Rushika M. Perera @rushika_perera]

Online today in @Nature - our latest study led by superstar postdoc @GillesRademaker detailing the role of PSCK9 in driving sterol dependent metastatic organ choice in pancreatic cancer https://t.co/czMQcNSr7o
full text available here 👉 https://t.co/JVFBDWxcTo and thread 👇

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

@JudithSimcox @Cell_Metabolism @_JessDavidson @HHMINEWS @UWBiochem Congratulations

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

See you in Spain

[Bianca Schrul @BiancaSchrul]

The abstract submission deadline for the 2nd edition of our #EMBOLipidDroplets Workshop (21-26 September 2025) is approaching.

Check out the agenda with an amazing lineup of speakers and submit your abstract before 10 June 2025!

@EMBO
@Co_Biologists

https://t.co/ytoQzXt3Oj

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

@ZhouLabUCR Huge Congrats!

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Pending editorial decision

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Moments after you agree to write a review

[Hongyuan Rob Yang @rob8yang]

Well done, Dongyin and Xiaoqin.

[Dongyin Guan @DongyinGuan]

We received 265 attendees per lecture in the summer seminar series. Now, we have finalized the speaker list and presentation dates for this upcoming fall seminar series. We continue to look forward to exciting science and inspiring discussions.

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

A typical paper today