Young Lab

Congratulations to Dr. Baltazar Zúñiga, who defended his dissertation today! Lucky #13 from the Young Lab!

Congratulations to Young lab members Dr. Mariachiara Conti and Nick Oberbroekling for being recognized with Vandy ChBE awards! MC received an Outstanding Postdoc award, and Nick received the William Ma award for Outstanding Sophomore student. 👏👏👏

📷 doi.org/10.1016/j.ymbe… Happy to announce the publication of this DOE-sponsored research performed in collaboration with @PflegerLab @DanforthCenter @VanderbiltChem!

We had a blast at our Russian Christmas party, and we’re looking forward to what 2026 brings!

Congratulations to Jamey Young for receiving the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Research! 🎉 His groundbreaking work on the computational tool INCA — which enables researchers to model data and quantify the flow of atoms through metabolic pathways. Read more: ow.ly/MtG850XpGJq

I'm honored to receive a Chancellor's Award for Research at last week's Fall Faculty Assembly. The award recognizes our paper “INCA 2.0: A Tool for Integrated, Dynamic Modeling of NMR- and MS-based Isotopomer Measurements and Rigorous Metabolic Flux Analysis" by @mohsin_rahim11.

We're excited to share our newest publication in Metabolic Engineering! @BiotechWang used rational metabolic engineering to increase cyanobacterial production of lysine. Check it out! #abs0010" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A successful summer outing for 2025!

It was an honor and a thrill to host the 15th Cyanobacteria Workshop last week at @VanderbiltU. The workshop was a huge success, with 95 attendees from 21 US states and 8 other countries discussing the planet's most ancient microorganisms. Thanks to the sponsors and presenters!

Thrilled to share our latest @YoungLabVU work in @CellReports! Grateful to my amazing co-authors (@deveenabanerjee) —this flexible metabolic model opens doors to countless applications in physiology & disease. @VanderbiltU @VUEngineering cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Farewell to Dr. Amy Zheng! Wishing her the best of luck in her postdoc at UBC🙂

Bringing the heat with her fantastic work on thermogenesis, Deveena Banerjee from @VanderbiltU 🔥 #EMBOmetabolicDiseases @EMBOevents @EMBO @S_FdezVeledo @RubenNogueiras @Gsabiolab @RogerJDavis1

Congratulations to Dr. Amy Zheng, who defended her dissertation this morning! This is #10 from the Young Lab!

Infinite JY in lab meeting today!

Biofunctionalized gelatin hydrogels support development and maturation of iPSC-derived cortical organoids dlvr.it/TFS5GF

And that’s a wrap on #BMES2024 !

It's been a busy week for the Young Lab! We're now off to #BMES2024 . Excited to share progress from our biomanufacturing projects!

Hear about some of our current research tomorrow at 5:20 PM in Couch Auditorium - "Simultaneous in vivo multi-organ fluxomics reveals divergent metabolic adaptations in liver, heart, and skeletal muscle during obesity" #MANA2024 @MetabolomicsANA

We’re at the Metabolomics Association of North America Conference! Great to see and share so much on metabolism and new technology!!

Congrats Danielle! Well deserved!