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New grant from the Lustgarten Foundation

11/6/2023

July 27, 2023.  We are thrilled to receive a new grant from the Lustgarten Foundation to study how lipid droplets contribute to liver metastasis in pancreatic cancer. This work is…

Dane’s research published in Cell Reports!

11/6/2023

December 13, 2022.  Congratulations to Dane Sessions on the publication of his paper, “Opa1 and Drp1 reciprocally regulate cristae morphology, ETC function, and NAD+ regeneration in KRas-mutant lung adenocarcinoma” in…

Dane defends his dissertation!

11/6/2023

December 9, 2022.  Congrats to Dane Sessions for successful defense of his dissertation titled, “Drp1 and Opa1 reciprocally structure the mitochondrial inner membrane and electron transport chain in lung adenocarcinoma”. …

Saad defends his dissertation!

10/7/2021

August 5, 2021.  Congrats to Saad Hussain for successful defense of his dissertation titled, “A novel role for RalA in lipid droplet growth”.  We will miss Saad greatly and wish…

Saad’s research published in Cell Reports!

10/7/2021

July 28, 2021.  Congratulations to Saad Hussain on the publication of his paper, “RalA and PLD1 promote lipid droplet growth in response to nutrient withdrawal” in the Journal Cell Reports. …

Tuyet graduates with Highest Distinction!

10/7/2021

May 28, 2021.  Congratulations to our talented undergraduate student Tuyet-Minh Tran for her graduation from UVA!  Tuyet earned her degree in Human Biology with highest distinction!  We wish Tuyet the…

MitoGenie goes live!

10/7/2021

April 19, 2021.  We are pleased to introduce Mitogenie.com!  Mitogenie is an intuitive cloud-based analytical research platform that supports the full cycle of data – from planning to publish.  Mitogenie…

New set of research tools published in Scientific Reports!

11/17/2020

Ali Rohani, with the help of Jen Kashatus, Dane Sessions and Salma Sharmin, has created a new suite of tools to enable high-throughput analysis of mitochondrial morphology from multi-cell confocal…

Read our post on the NCI Ras Dialogue Blog

11/20/2019

Mitochondria in RAS Cancers: Mutant RAS genes drive metabolic changes that are necessary for tumors to form.  In a new RAS Dialogue, David Kashatus from the University of Virginia describes…

New research published in Cell Reports!

11/20/2019

August 13, 2019 Our study on the role of Drp1 in pancreatic cancer, “Drp1 Promotes KRas-Driven Metabolic Changes to Drive Pancreatic Tumor Growth” has been published in the journal Cell…