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We study cancer and metabolism at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and University of Illinois Cancer Center.

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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 21/09/2026
Another publication on the way!! In the meantime, check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Integrative pipeline to profile and target endocrine therapy-insensitive cell populations in ER+ breast cancer
Up to 40% of patients with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer will experience relapse, either while on endocrine therapy (ET) or after ET is completed. A major contributor to ET failure is the p...
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 18/09/2026
Soaking up the last bits of Chicago summer with UICOM Community Carnival!
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 27/07/2026
Another successfully published manuscript from Dr. Philippa Burns! Check out her work regarding the effects of serine starvation on RNA splicing 👀 aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar...
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Serine Starvation Modulates mRNA Splicing through Translational Inhibition of SRSF Proteins
Abstract. Serine is a critical nutrient for cancer cell proliferation due to its numerous downstream biosynthetic functions. Given the ongoing clinical efforts to utilize dietary serine starvation as ...
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 05/06/2026
Hot off the press!! 🚨📰 Check out @palpurab.bsky.social work focusing on the effect of ceramides on breast cancer cells aacrjournals.org/mcr/article/...
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Ceramide-induced endoplasmic reticulum stress reveals a targetable vulnerability in endocrine therapy-resistant breast cancer
Abstract. Despite the success of endocrine therapy (ET) in treating hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, a significant proportion of patients relapse during or after treatment, making ET resistanc...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
New @nature.com The brains of Super Agers produce more neurons than people some 50 years younger, a neurogenesis resilient signature linked to exceptional cognitive health and memory skills nature.com/articles/s41...
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Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease - Nature
Mapping of neurogenesis in human hippocampi across ages and different cognitive abilities using multiomic single-cell sequencing reveals distinct signatures between cognitive preservation and decline.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The conference (agreement between House and Senate) appropriations bill that includes HHS and NIH was released this morning. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit... 1/5
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Committee Releases Conferenced Defense, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Bi...
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Gina DeNicola @ginadenicola.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Interested in stable isotope infusions but daunted by jugular catheter surgery? New from postdoc @kimyumi0201.bsky.social: our simple tail vein catheter method enables anesthesia-free infusions in awake, freely moving mice. 🧵
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NPR @npr.org · 09/12/2025
Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments. n.pr/4a4N3zD
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After NIH grant cuts, breast cancer research at Harvard slowed, and lab workers left
Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments.
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 12/11/2025
A few more photos of our lab members since Bluesky has photo limits 🙃
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 12/11/2025
Had a lovely time talking science with our peers at #MidwestMetabolism - until next year!! @palpurab.bsky.social @vipinrawat482.bsky.social @meteozgurses.bsky.social
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 10/11/2025
If you’re at the Midwest Metabolism Meeting, make sure you stop by our posters! We have 6 lab members presenting today @meteozgurses.bsky.social @vipinrawat482.bsky.social @palpurab.bsky.social @juliannasupplee.bsky.social @linalietuv.bsky.social
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Ubellacker Lab @ubellackerlab.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Excited to share our work @nature.com! Postdoc @mariopalma.bsky.social, with major contributions from @retickerflynn.bsky.social and collaborators, discovered melanoma cells in lymph nodes gain a targetable FSP1 dependency that limits progression. #TeamFSP1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lymph node environment drives FSP1 targetability in metastasizing melanoma | Nature
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Ben-Sahra Lab @bensahralab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Excited to share our latest work out today in @cp-molcell.bsky.social, revealing a molecular link between succinate dehydrogenase and purine synthesis, connecting two fundamental metabolic pathways. Huge congratulations to the first author, Mushtaq Nengroo! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... !
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Accumulation of succinate suppresses de novo purine synthesis through succinylation-mediated control of the mitochondrial folate cycle
The de novo purine synthesis pathway is fundamental for nucleotide production, yet the role of mitochondrial metabolism in modulating this process rem…
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 23/10/2025
Working on some very important, very serious experimental procedures…
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 11/10/2025
Congratulations!
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 25/09/2025
@thermofishersci.bsky.social vendor show today 🤪 can you guess who unwillingly stood for the picture????
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 25/09/2025
Latest lab photo from celebrating Dr. Coloff’s birthday earlier this month!!!! 🥳
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 20/09/2025
Congrats to @meteozgurses.bsky.social for being selected to present his work at Chicago Mass Spec Day last month!!
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 22/08/2025
🤩🤩🤩 @palpurab.bsky.social
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Ceramide-induced Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress as a Targetable Vulnerability in Endocrine Therapy-Resistant Breast Cancer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 15/08/2025
The Hormone Dependent Cancer Gordon Research Conference got a sneak peak at Purab’s new work before it hits the journals - watch this space, publication dropping soon!!!! 👀 @palpurab.bsky.social
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 13/08/2025
Even MORE exciting Coloff lab news!!! 🥳 after graduating with her PhD from Penn, @juliannasupplee.bsky.social has moved to Chicago to continue her work in cancer lipid metabolism with us as a postdoc!!! Welcome Julianna!!! 🤩
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Gina DeNicola @ginadenicola.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Join us in at Moffitt! The Metabolism Program is recruiting at the Assistant Member (Assistant Professor) level. Review of applications starts September 1st. Please share! Details here: moffitt-cancer-center-careers.hctsportals.com/jobs/1883440...
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Tenure-Earning Assistant Member Metabolism & Physiology Faculty in Tampa, FL - Moffitt Cancer Center CareersTenure-Earning Assistant Member Metabolism & Physiology Faculty in Tampa, FL - Moffitt Cance...
Working at Moffitt Cancer Center is both a career and a mission. All employees are dedicated to patient care, research and education to advance our fight against this disease.
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 10/08/2025
We also have to give a shoutout to @linalietuv.bsky.social for completing her preliminary exam!! She will now enter the next phase of her program: PhD candidacy 😱
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 10/08/2025
EXCITING COLOFF LAB NEWS: Philippa successfully defended her thesis, “Serine Starvation Modulates mRNA Splicing Through Depletion of SR Proteins,” last month and is officially Dr. Burns!!! Congratulations Philippa!! 🍾
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 06/08/2025
We had the pleasure of hosting Christian Guerrero, a high school student part of @uicancercenter.bsky.social CHESS program, for several weeks this summer. Thank you Christian for your curiosity and hard work, and we can’t wait to see what you do in your future!!
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KatajistoLab @katajistolab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Proudly presenting Simon’s @simonsterson.bsky.social‬ paper on asymmetric apportioning of old mitochondria biasing intestinal stem cells for the Paneth cell linage through aKG-dependent metabolism @naturemetabolism.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42... @helsinki.fi @metastem.bsky.social 🧵1/8
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Old mitochondria regulate niche renewal via α-ketoglutarate metabolism in stem cells - Nature Metabolism
Andersson et al. show that intestinal stem cells enriched for old mitochondria are metabolically distinct and have enhanced ability to regenerate the epithelial niche.
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Rich Possemato @richpossemato.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
From Nobel prize winning cancer researcher Bill Kaelin Killing the Science Golden Goose - The American Journal of Medicine www.amjmed.com/article/S000...
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Killing the Science Golden Goose
In the 1970’s I was probably one of the last American high school students who was told that if you wanted to go to medical school, you should learn to speak German. This was because in the late 19th ...
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 21/05/2025
Congrats to Rushika and Gilles on this really cool work!
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chasingmicrobes @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
1/3 PLEASE READ, LIKE, REPOST this "1/3" post There is a Senate Hearing May 14th with RFK Jr to discuss Trump's proposed HHS budget. Please find call/email the members of the committee every day until then (I have compiled contact info for the members in post 2/3)
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Senate HELP Committee to Hold Hearing with Secretary Kennedy on HHS Budget

WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, May 14, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a hearing with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to discuss President Trump's proposed HHS budget for fiscal year 2026. This is the first time in at least two decades that the HHS Secretary is testifying on a presidential budget before the HELP Committee.

Agenda: Hearing on Fiscal Year 2026 Department of Health and Human Services Budget;

Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Time: 1:00 PM ET/ 12:00 PM CT

Location: 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Witnesses: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
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Lina Lietuvninkas @linalietuv.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Coloff lab 🤝 AACR
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 29/04/2025
Last but not least, Mete will be presenting his work at this afternoon’s poster presentation as well. Make sure to check him out!! @meteozgurses.bsky.social
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 29/04/2025
Loooooove single cell RNAseq???? So does Lana! Come talk with her at her poster in the afternoon session #AACR25
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 29/04/2025
Make sure to stop by our resident ceramide nerd’s poster tomorrow between 9-12!
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 29/04/2025
Curing cancer one SRSF at a time #AACR25
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 28/04/2025
Philippa will be presenting her thesis work this afternoon at 3:20 in room E450B. Make sure to stop by and see her talk one last time before she defends in July!
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 26/04/2025
“It’s tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime!” -Mariah Carey #AACR25
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 26/04/2025
Hi everyone! My name is Lina Lietuvninkas and I’m a second year graduate student in the Coloff lab 👩‍🔬 Jon gave me access to this account so many of the posts will be from me. Let’s see how long it takes for him to regret this!!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 21/04/2025
We also presented our latest research at @uicancercenter.bsky.social Gary Kruh Cancer Research Symposium! Purab Pal PhD, Vipin Rawat PhD, Mete Ozgurses, and Lana Semina PhD, all presented posters of their work. Make sure to check them out again at @theaacr.bsky.social annual meeting this week!
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 21/04/2025
We had the opportunity to attend @asbmb.bsky.social annual conference in our hometown last week!! We listened to some very interesting talks, got to dig deeper into the biochemical nature of our work, & got to make our own buttons 🤓 Can’t wait to show them off at @theaacr.bsky.social next weekend!
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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Excited to share this one! We developed an in vivo model for specific manipulation of transfer RNA acetylation and found it serves as a sentinel modification whose loss causes ribosome stalling and stress signaling. Implications for a genetic disorder and cancer. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Transfer RNA acetylation regulates in vivo mammalian stress signaling
An ancient tRNA modification is used by mammalian cells to coordinate protein translation and adaptive signaling.
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 14/03/2025
Check out this great new work from the @muirlab.bsky.social on the role of nutrients in the TME impacting tumor metabolism and therapeutic vulnerabilities!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
ATTENTION The Washington Post is collecting data about funding issues. Please consider contributing. thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...
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Are you a scientist who has lost funding or grants in recent weeks? - Formstack
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
NIH indirects case update: Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges. Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides: (I'm paraphrasing here)
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 10/02/2025
Yes! I've been trying to come up with ways to explain this to friends and family to rally support for the NIH. It's not easy but I think it is extremely important that the general public understands that their money is being put to good use.=
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Coloff Lab @colofflab.com · 10/02/2025
A restaurant might be a useful analogy for explaining direct vs indirect costs: Direct costs pay for the day's ingredients and the wages of the cooks. Indirect costs pay for the kitchen. Both are essential, but they need to be managed differently. Which is why they are separate.
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Dibble Lab @dibblelab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We’re hiring a #postdoc! The Dibble Lab at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston studies the regulatory relationship between #signaling and #metabolic pathways. Email me at ccdibble@bidmc.harvard.edu !
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Isaac Harris @harrislab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I’m really proud to announce the 2025 Cancer Metabolism Showcase and Workshop, May 5th and 6th, 9:30 AM - 3 PM EST. This year, our Keynote Speaker is Dr. Jeffrey Rathmell from VUMC. I'm excited to come together, talk science, and support researchers in our field. www.cancermetabolismshowcase.org
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9:30 AM - 3 PM EST, May 5th and 6th, 2025
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Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This is just a reminder that the #cancermetabolism and #mitochondrialbiology community is ever-growing, and the third starter pack is becoming very juicy. Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/VavECSX Starter pack 2: go.bsky.app/CH1MctZ Starter pack 3: go.bsky.app/7Uwa6fb
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