MITOchats are back this Thursday! We are opening Season 5 with three short talks by KayLee Steiner KayLee Steiner, PhD Jeff Rathmell, Juan Landoni Juan Cruz Landoni, and Mariella Quisepe-Carbajal Mariella Quispe-Carbajal. Zoom link now available on mitotalks.org The MITOscience of tomorrow, today.

Excited to share my first co-authorship of grad school in ⁦Jeff Rathmell lab with hard work of first-author ⁦Melissa M Wolf⁩ in JCI! jci.org/articles/view/…

It's out! Jackie Bader led our new The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research Endeavor team study showing obesity promotes PD-1 on macrophages to suppress anti-tumor immunity but sensitize to checkpoint therapy--a new mechanism of the cancer "obesity paradox" VUMC_VCI Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center nature.com/articles/s4158…

So happy to have helped Jackie with experiments for her paper now published in NATURE! 👩🏼‍🔬🎉

My former College of Science at RIT UG scholar colleague and current PhD student at Vanderbilt University, KayLee Steiner’s work. #RIT

Excited to share that I have received my NoA and my F31 has officially been FUNDED! Thanks to everyone in the lab for their help especially Jeff Rathmell

Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Synthesis and Mecr Regulate CD4+ T Cell Function and Oxidative Metabolism biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_immuno

My first author paper from my thesis work has been uploaded to BioRxiv! We identified Mecr as important for T cell fitness in in vivo CRISPR screens. I have further worked with Mecr and am the first to show it regulates T cell function and metabolism. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great job by KayLee Steiner, PhD of my group and @VUMC_VCI as an The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Young Investigator awardee to present her work at the #SIS2024 Southeast Immunology Symposium at UAB Immunology Institute

Excited to share that Andrew Patterson paper is out! I did my rotation with Andrew in Jeff Rathmell lab and happy to have helped him with his experiments and projects. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Second and probably last SIS ✅ I was selected to give an oral presentation as an AAI young investigator out of over 200 abstracts!!

As co-executive chair for the Cancer Biology Student Association, I organized our Cancer Biology retreat where we hosted Dr. Kimryn Rathmell Dr. Kim Rathmell. Thank you to all our chairs to make this retreat a success and silent auction to benefit Gilda'sClubMiddleTN

Check out the latest drop from the Jeff Rathmell lab by the extraordinary Darren Heintzman! This project was intellectually stimulating for all in the lab and fun to be a part of. See how temperature impacts T cell metabolism! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🌡️🔥

Please join me in congratulating Hudson Lab Alumna, Dr. KayLee Steiner KayLee Steiner, PhD on successfully defending her PhD dissertation today! Well done Dr. Steiner and Dr. Jeff Rathmell

Big congratulations to KayLee Steiner, PhD for her PhD defense! As always, KayLee goes big--tackling a poorly understood metabolic pathway in T cells (mtFAS) and with a huge bottle to celebrate after.

Excited to share I successfully defended my PhD in Cancer Biology from Vanderbilt University in the laboratory of Jeff Rathmell Thank you to all my collaborators, friends, and family for the endless support! #PhinisheD #immunometabolism

It is great when science can have direct impacts to patients and make connections and collaborate. I hope we can all find ways to relate our science to patients and improve outcomes more!

#ScienceSaturday ❓ Could targeting T cell metabolism be the next big thing in boosting cancer immunotherapy? ➡️ New research shows tweaking how T cells use fat can change their survival and power. ➡️ In this study, KayLee Steiner, PhD, Jeff Rathmell et. al found that a gene