2023
Check out our latest paper demonstrating a novel way to sensitize BRAF-treatment resistant melanomas to HMGCR inhibitors through PGC1α suppression from Jiaxin Liang out in Nature Communications!
We welcome our newest rotation student, Josh Choe to the lab!
We welcome a new postdoctoral fellow into the lab Tom Jackson, who comes to us from Melbourne. Glad to have you join us.
Check out our new preprint now up on bioRxiv! It is a follow up to our previous Nature Metabolism paper looking at the mechanism dictating how tetracycline help promote survival in mitochondrial disease models by suppressing IRE1α.
We congratulate our graduate student Tevis for passing his Preliminary Qualifying Exam this March, well done!
2022
Congratulations to Jee Hyung Sohn in our lab for receiving the Friends of Dana-Farber grant to help fund our research looking into novel small molecule therapies for renal cell carcinoma!
Congratulations to our very own Deyang Yu for receiving the 2022 AACR Merck Immuno-oncology Research Fellowship to fund his research.
Review published: Check out our review from Chris, Pedro and Pere on mitochondrial respiration adaptation that was published in Nature Reviews Molecular cells biology in July
here.
Review published: Check out our review from Pedro and Pere on the link between OXPHOS metabolism and macrophage migration published in EMBO journal in June
here.
We bid farewell to Beste Multu as she moves on to Developmental Cell as a Scientific Editor! Look out for future publications from her work during her time with us.
Pere Puigserver gave an invited talk as a part of the Susan Swerling Lectures Seminars in Oncology on June 7th, check out a recording
here!
We welcome back Tevis Vitale as he has decided to join our lab, welcome! We look forward to seeing your future work.
We bid farewell to our technician Noa Kantorovich as she takes a job as a clinical research coordinator as she applies to medical school, good luck Noa!
We welcome our first rotation student of the year, Tevis Vitale, to the lab this March.
We congratulate Elizabeth Perry on the successful defense of her dissertation this February, she will be moving onto her dental medicine residency at UCLA.
We bid farewell to Chris Bennett as he takes his next step as a Senior Scientist at Atavistik Bio this January, best of luck Chris!
We welcome our newest post-doctoral fellow Jee-Hyung Sohn to the lab, welcome!
2021
Review published: Check out our short review from Beste and Pere on the controversy of peripheral cannabinoid receptor 1 in fatty liver disease, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation this November
here!
Review published: Check out our review from Chris, Conor, and Pere on targeting mitochondrial bioenergetic deficiencies in human disease published this September in the FESB Journal
here!
Report published: Check out our new paper from Chris on how ether phospholipids link nucleotides to respiratory supercomplex assembly published this March is Nature Chemical Biology
here!
Report published: Check out our new paper from Pedro on how the cold stress PERK/OGT axis controls mitochondrial protein import and cristae formation published this February in Cell Metabolism
here!
Report published: Check out our new paper from Elizabeth on how Tetracyclines promote cell survival in mitochondrial disease models published this January in Nature Metabolism
here!
January 2018
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences publishes their installment of the annual reviews series
The Year in Diabetes and Obesity. Insulin regulation of gluconeogenesis, a review written in part by members of the Puigserver Laboratory, was highlighted on the cover of the series. Founded in 2010, the series has a dedicated Editorial Advisory Board of distringuished researchers. (
Hatting et al. 2018)
June 2015
Pere Puigserver received the Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) at its 75th Scientific Sessions June 5-9 in Boston.
August 2014
New research from Yoonjin Lee in our laboratory and colleagues published in Nature identifies components of the cell cycle machinery that control glucose homeostasis. This work has strong implications for the regulatory mechanisms in metabolic diseases, aging and cancer.
June 2014
Pere Puigserver was listed among the top researchers around the globe by Thomas Reuters, which released their 2014 list of “The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds” in June. The world’s top researchers earned their distinction by publishing the highest number of articles that rank among those most frequently cited by fellow researchers. Download the report:
June 2013
Pere Puigserver presented on "Mitochondrial Biogenesis Through Activation of Nuclear Signaling Proteins" at the Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Dynamics in Health Disease and Aging conference, June 16-21, 2013 in Big Sky, Montana. The conference was organized by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).
