Jason Tennessen
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Whoa. Lived in SLC for the better part of a decade and this is unfathomable
Matthew Johnson@KSL_Matt
MAJOR BREAKING: At approximately 2:54 PM this afternoon Salt Lake City reached 109° for the first time in recorded history. Record books go back to 1874! Just absurd heat for this region! The lake breeze has not kicked in so 110° is possible if cloud cover doesn’t pick up.
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It is a great pleasure to share our recent work by Rodney Claude @ScienceGuyRod and Sankalp Srivastava @darwinpwndyou , published at JCI Insight @JCI_insight
insight.jci.org/articles/view/…
There are two major findings in this story.
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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!
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新たな論文が掲載されました！
ショウジョウバエを用いて、飢餓時の glucagon-like hormone である Akh の分泌が、脂肪体での BCAA 代謝を介した臓器間フィードバックによって制御されること、Akhが飢餓時のアミノ酸の利用を促すことを示しました。
LC-MS/MS による Akh 定量系も確立しています。
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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: ipm.org/news/2026-05-1…
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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. scim.ag/4u133d3
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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
ipm.org/news/2026-05-0…
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Team Humpty Dumpty didn’t win the Biology Department egg drop, but we had an awesome design and esprit de corps. @IUBiology
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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.
idsnews.com/article/2026/0…
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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:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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Happy to share our latest metabo-devo paper: rdcu.be/fc6YK.
#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
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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.
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We did a thing with @UplandBrewCo, @BloomingtonBrew, @HeartworkBrewCo, @TheTapBtown, and the soon-to-be launched Towaki Brewing Company.
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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! authors.elsevier.com/c/1mrsu_M0e49q…
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Out today in @cellcellpress new work from the lab led by Abby Xie and @jules_stef asks, when and why do cells use the TCA cycle?
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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
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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This is ridiculous. This is not the IU I joined 10 years ago.
Indiana Daily Student@idsnews
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.
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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.
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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
Indiana Daily Student@idsnews
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.
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