Congratulations, Michael, Atefeh, Kyle, Zahra, and Brooks on your paper “Molecular competition in G1 controls when cells simultaneously commit to terminally differentiate and exit the cell-cycle” being accepted in Cell Reports!
Congratulations, Stefan, for receiving a “Junior Fellowship Award” for an outstanding oral presentation at the the FASEB meeting on “The Regulation of Glucose Metabolism” in Palm Spring, CA from June 16-21, 2019! Stefan’s talk was on his project entitled “Circadian glucocorticoid oscillations are required to maintain functional brown adipose tissue.”
Atefeh will be attending and speaking in the Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Molecular and Cellular Biology of Lipids in Waterville Valley, NH from July 27-August 2, 2019. She will be giving a talk on her project: “Divergent regulation of adipogenesis and insulin sensitivity by the timing and order of C/EBPβ and C/EBPα levels”. Hope you have a very stimulating and enjoyable meeting, Atefeh!
As of June 2019, Mary has joined the editorial board of PLOS Biology. Am looking forward to working with this exciting journal!
Stefan and Atefeh will be attending the FASEB meeting on “The Regulation of Glucose Metabolism” in Palm Spring, CA from June 16-21, 2019. Stefan will be giving a talk on his work showing that circadian glucocorticoid oscillations are required to maintain functional brown adipose tissue and what the underlying molecular mechanisms are. Atefeh will be presenting her work in which she is using quantitative single-cell fluorescence microscopy approaches to understand how CEBPB, a key adipogenic transcription factor, has divergent regulation of adipogenesis and insulin sensitivity depending on the timing and order of when it is expressed and offers a potential control mechanism for reverting insulin resistance under inflammatory conditions. Mary will be speaking the same week at the Gordon Research Conference on Developmental Biology in Mount Holyoke, MA.
Kyle presented a poster and Mary gave a talk at the CHSL meeting on Network Biology in Cold Spring Harbor, NY in March 2019. Was a really interesting meeting and a very nice format for scientific interaction. Kyle presented on his project to use CRISPR-based screening and large-scale network analysis to identify therapeutic targets and small molecule combinations to restore insulin sensitivity in adipose tissue.
Joydeb and Mary attended the 9th Annual Center for Circadian Biology Symposium hosted by the Center for Circadian Biology in San Diego, CA in February 2019. Joydeb presented a poster on his research in which he is using live-cell imaging to show and understand how the cell-intrinsic circadian clock gates adipogenesis.
Michael presented a poster and Mary gave a talk at the Keystone Symposium on Signal Dynamics and Signal Integration in Keystone, Colorado at the end of January. It was a great meeting for the science and was especially interesting because it was a joint meeting with Keystone Symposium on Cellular Plasticity, another area of interest in the lab. The snow conditions were awesome. Here is a photo of Michael about to plunge off the top of Arapahoe Basin.
