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Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 3/16/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 3/9/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations to Kyounghee Min on her commentary in Cell Research highlighting a recent Science paper from the Kajimura lab. The study uncovers the functional role of the mitochondrial trimethyllysine transporter SLC25A45 in carnitine biosynthesis, revealing how cells enable adaptive fuel switching. A great contribution to our understanding of metabolic flexibility! touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 3/2/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 2/23/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations to Catherine Muller and her team for these elegant studies on periprostatic adipose tissue, local endotrophin levels and prostate cancer! Estève et al., 2026, J Pathol., in press touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations and many thanks to Daniel Tews and Pam Fischer-Posovszky for their Commentary on our seipin paper in Nature Reviews Endocrinology!! Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2026 Feb 10. doi: 10.1038/s41574-026-01234-z touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 2/16/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations to Jan-Bernd Funcke and Leon Straub for their Trends in Molecular Medicine – Disease of the Month summary of Lipidema as a chronic adipose tissue disease!! Trends Mol Med. 2026 Feb;32(2):197-198 touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 2/2/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations to Nancy Sun, Jan-Bernd-Funcke, Chanmin Joung, Dayoung Oh and other colleagues on their GPR75 paper demonstrating the relevance of its action in the brain!! Sci Adv. 2026 Jan 23;12(4):eady7993 touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 1/19/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

CONGRATS to ANDRE FARIA and BRUNO HALPERN for their great new review on LIPEDEMA! A wonderful overview over the current state of knowledge on this enigmatic disease! Faria AM, Valerio CM, Barcellos CR, Oliveira RA, Trujilho FR, Baiocchi JMT, Cifarelli V, Scherer PE, Halpern B. 2026. Unraveling lipedema: comprehensive insights and the path to future discoveries. NPJ Metab Health Dis. 17;4(1):3. touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Congrats to Chao Li and Zhao Wang on their new paper in JCI Insight!! JCI Insight. 2026. touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 1/5/26 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 12/22/25 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 12/15/25 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 12/8/25 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Touchstone Diabetes Center group meeting 12/1/25 Link for full presentation touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…

Congratulations to Line Pederson and Christy Gliniak on the publication of their in-depth analysis of the effects of YY1 overexpression in adipocytes!! Published in Metabolism! Metabolism 175 (2026) 156439 touchstonelabs.org/wp-content/upl…