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.Michigan Research showcased how federally funded research is transforming healthcare and driving economic growth. Check out stories from Rogel and Blondy Center for Pancreatic Cancer and maria g castro on how federal funding has moved the needle on cancer: research.umich.edu/news-and-issue…

The Multidisciplinary Training Program in Basic Diabetes Research T32 at Michigan Medicine is accepting applications from postdoctoral fellows interested in diabetes and metabolic disease research. Deadline May 16. Apply and learn more here: medschool.umich.edu/departments/in…

Thanks to all the UMPhysiology PhD students who gave back to our local community by helping pack lunches for those in need who come to Hope Clinic.

Congrats to UMPhysiology PhD student and soon-to-be Dr. Ryan Neff for defending his dissertation today. Ryan has been working in the Murphy lab on the Down Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule in neurodevelopmental disorders

Congrats to UMPhysiology PhD student and soon-to-be Dr. Nick Urban from the Matthias C. Truttmann lab lab for defending his dissertation today. Nick's dissertation work is focused on ER resident chaperones in physiology and aging.

Never would have dreamed to see our work highlighted on the NIH website. nih.gov/news-events/ni…. Truly once-in-a-lifetime! So thankful. Lyssiotis Lab

Congrats to UMPhysiology PhD student and soon-to-be-Dr. Elizabeth Kitto for defending her dissertation today. Elizabeth has been working in the Leiser lab on how sensory perception and neural circuits regulate longevity and health span in C. elegans.

Finalists for the Davenport Award for Outstanding Research at our annual UMPhysiology Symposium, Chrystian Phillips,Jess Maung ,Elizabeth Kitto,Hsin-Yu Chen. Congrats to award winner Elizabeth, and proud of Hsin-Yu from my lab and all the finalists for awesome presentations.

Congrats to UMich CMB PhD student Kate M. Van Pelt, PhD ✨ for her first author paper with Matthias C. Truttmann lab from UMPhysiology published in PLOS Genetics showing loss of FIC-1 dependent ampylation slows disease in a C.elegans model of polyglutamine toxicity doi.org/10.1371/journa…

New research from Sumeet A Solanki and collaborators in Shah Lab in UMPhysiology published in American Society for Nutrition Journals #JNutr shows that a low protein diet can make colitis worse through an interaction between amino acid sensing and the gut microbiota. jn.nutrition.org/article/S0022-…

A paper in Cell Reports from postdoc Takao Tsukahara and the Sutton lab in UMPhysiology demonstrates the six H3K4 methyltransferases have distinct roles and act in different phases of synaptic plasticity. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congrats to UMPhysiology PhD student Diana Zhang UMich CMB MSTP student Wesley Huang for their co-FA paper in Nature Metabolism showing crosstalk of fibroblast metabolism and lipid ferroptosis in intestine epithelial cells worsens IBD. Shah Lab nature.com/articles/s4225…

New research from Cristian Saenz de Miera and the Elias lab in UMPhysiology published in FASEBPubs identifies a population of neurons that link nutritional state and leptin to the neurons that regulate puberty onset and reproduction in females. faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fj…

Visiting students Jian Zhang and Yuee Zhao UM Global REACH and the Lin-Tong Lab in UMPhysiology published a paper in Advanced Portfolio News showing that hepatocyte ChREBPα protects against liver fibrosis by suppressing the activation of stellate cells advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

How many of you have bandaids from tubing? 9 out of 10 hands raised. Funcle Dan strikes again.

Congrats to Lyssiotis Lab from @UMPHysiology U-M Rogel Cancer Center for receiving an inaugural Stephenson Scholar Grant from SGPCRI to study metabolic vulnerability in pancreatic cancer. Read more here: businesswire.com/news/home/2025…

Congrats to @UMPPhysiology PhD Student and soon-to-be Dr. Anne Marie Weitzel for defending her dissertation. Anne has been working in the Burant lab studying how the skeletal muscle epigenome changes in a model of cardiorespiratory fitness and following acute exercise

Congrats to UMPhysiology PhD student Jess Maung and the MacDougald lab for her paper in JCI insight showing metabolic dysfunction in lipodystrophy is improved by FGF21/sTGFBR2 gene therapy, but effectiveness depends upon environmental temperature. insight.jci.org/articles/view/…

Congrats to UMPhysiology PhD student Jiaoo Su and the Affinati lab for his first author paper in Molecular Metabolism identifying a distinct subset of glucose-mobilizing VMH neurons that support physiologic glucose homeostasis. clinicalkey.com/#!/content/pla…