Here the Prentki lab proposes that inhibition of monoacylglycerol (MAG) hydrolase α/β-hydrolase domain-containing 6 (ABHD6) in WAT is a therapeutic strategy for improving the health of adipose tissue #obesity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

FINALLY! 🔥 See you all TOMORROW, Monday August 18th at 17:00 for early registration and cocktails. Download the full #AdiposeBiology Conference program here: adiposebiology.com/program
Get ready for #ABC2025 @kazaklab.bsky.social @beaudrj.bsky.social @sunglab.bsky.social

We just learned about a 3rd dimension of how Covid can affect our arteries.
erictopol.substack.com/p/covid-and-...

Regulatory T cells in brown adipose tissue safeguard thermogenesis by restraining interferon-γ–producing lymphocytes | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats! Interesting

Excited to share our timely and comprehensive review published in Physiological Reviews, bringing together insights from multiple leading labs in metabolism: Marc Prentki and Murthy Madiraju, Shingo Kajimura, @denispblondin.bsky.social, and Christopher Nolan.

journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Congratulations

I've been doing this for 30 years & I still can't believe that when people ask me what I do for a living I get to tell them "I'm a scientist". It feels like a kid's fantasy career that they dress up as for Halloween, like "astronaut" or "pirate". I feel very lucky I get to do this day in & day out.

Today in @naturecomms.bsky.social we show the #FutileCreatineCycle plays a key role in #thermogenesis, independent of UCP1. We also challenge the belief that brown adipocytes lack enough ATP synthase for thermogenesis. Congrats to Jakub Bunk! @mcgillgci.bsky.social

Full paper: rdcu.be/egoV7

For Canadian cancer researchers concerned about travelling to the US (🙋🏼‍♂️), please check out and plan to be at the Canadian Cancer Research Conference in Calgary this November. All welcome. www.ccra-acrc.ca/conference/

1 day left to apply!

Check out our First Person Language Guide: Addressing Weight Bias.

This guide aims to support the development of non-stigmatising research, project outputs and other communications. Thank you @xramossalas!

Download here: easo.org/person-first...

Spilling the skinny on fat cells!

@razanilab.bsky.social & team discover the process for adaptation to fasting and cold-induced lipolysis involves lysosomal lipolysis: buff.ly/UPFJ5sO

Interested in studying cancer metabolism, recurrence & translational application of machine learning 4 biomarker discovery? NSERC has new programs. Got a MSc, apply for PhD positions in the Marignani Lab, Sept 2025 admissions. www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

Looking forward to welcoming colleagues and friends to the Boston-Ithaca Islet Club meeting hosted this year at the CRCHUM in Montreal, 5,6 April. There's still time to register (closing April 4 th)! www.bostonithacaisletclub.com/32nd-meeting-1.

After ~8 years, happy to share work done w/
@natelewis3.bsky.social showing you can eliminate the Warburg effect in mammalian cells w/out impacting growth rate is out now in @natmetabolism.bsky.social!

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#science #biotech #cancermetabolism
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💫NEW: Li & co report a central role for #AMPK in regulating aldolase B-mediated glycerol synthesis and excretion under hypoxia as a mechanism to balance the trade-off between reductive and energy stress during #tumor growth.
👉🏿https://rdcu.be/d8apH
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited to announce that the single cell/nuc. RNA/ATAC/multi-ome resource from ENCODE4 is now officially public. This includes raw data, processed data, annotations and pseudobulk products. Covers many human & mouse tissues. 1/

www.encodeproject.org/single-cell/...

Happy New Year, everyone, and welcome to UdeM's first Bluesky account in English! (Our French one, @umontreal.ca , launched a month ago.) 🎓✨ If you're part of our community – or just want to learn more about what we do and what research we're engaged in – subscribe, share and say hello! #umontreal

It is finally here! Check out our website www.adiposebiology.com/registration with @kazaklab.bsky.social & @twinsdad0603.bsky.social, partnered with Sable Systems! See the speaker list, venue info, preliminary program, and registration deadlines.

📍Montreal, Canada
📅Aug 19-20, 2025
#adiposebiology

Early bird Registration is now open for the inaugural
Adipose Biology Conference: www.adiposebiology.com/registration

Amazing speakers. We have many slots for short talks from trainees and ECRs.

📍Montreal, Canada
📅Aug 19-20, 2025

#adiposebiology #adiposebiology2025
@sablesys.bsky.social

"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury."

In this #ScienceWorkingLife, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. scim.ag/49BKZgp

@cellreports.bsky.social being artistic with the fabulous fat cells 🤩👏