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Gregory Ducker Lab

@duckerlab.bsky.social
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University of Utah Biochemist. Metabolism lab focused on all things tracing. Part time ski bum. ducker.biochem.utah.edu

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uofunuip.bsky.social @uofunuip.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Big 12 Conference Announces 2026-27 Faculty of the Year Award Honorees Congratulations, Dr. William Holland: Associate Professor - Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Thank you for your outstanding contributions! Read the announcement here: buff.ly/5jeVBew
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U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry @uofubiochem.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Don't miss Thursday's seminar by Dr. Greg Ducker @duckerlab.bsky.social entitled "Follow the Carbon: From Molecules to Mechanisms of Disease." Thurs Sept 3, 12pm in HSEB 1750!
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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
📣 Bold science alert! We're thrilled to announce our latest awardees who are pushing the boundaries of research in aging, regeneration, and bacterial resilience. bit.ly/HFAwardees Hear from the #HFScouts who championed these talented scientists👇 in our 🧵: 1/
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Lucas Sullivan @lucasbsullivan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Pleased to share our recent work out today in @natmetabolism.nature.com. This study addresses a longstanding mystery - NRF2-driven cancers increase cysteine acquisition (via xCT) by ~5x - so where does all that cysteine go?
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DeBerardinis Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center @rjdlab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Incredible chance to learn about genetics, from the fundamentals to the latest science. I attended this course when I was a PhD student in the 90s and have lectured in it for the last dozen or so. And science aside, there's nowhere better to be in late July than Bar Harbor, ME. See you there.
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kd @katalogued.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Another charter member of the "Branch Covidians"... The damage these idiots are doing both with specific issues under consideration and future operations is breathtaking (literally).
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Something amazing, a boy falling from the sky… @mckenzee.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Central high school just walked out, marching on the Capitol Sounds like they have a band with them
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Simply outrageous!
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 21/11/2025
Fantastic opportunity for undergraduates pursuing summer research experience! @hhmi.org
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Flora Rutaganira @frutag33.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
16 (! What?) years ago I went to my first ABRCMS and was welcomed and encouraged to pursue my scientific dreams. I met folks that provided direct feedback on my graduate school applications and served a pivotal role in my career. I am honored return and give back again as faculty. #ABRCMS2025
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Huntsman Cancer Institute @huntsmancancer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
How do cancer cells use the nutrients to grow and how can that knowledge lead to better care? Gregory Ducker, PhD, studies the metabolism of cancer. @duckerlab.bsky.social aims to uncover new ideas for future therapies & ways to make current treatments even more effective. @uofubiochem.bsky.social
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Updating my LEGO White House
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20/09/2025
this is wild - i was aware of Mary-Claire King's absurdly important discoveries on BRCA / inherited breast cancer but I had no idea that her first PhD paper (King & Wilson 1975, Science, not bad lol) is the "99% of protein coding shared btwn chimps and humans" result www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Melanie McReynolds @drohsopretty.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
In a time as this— I am deeply thankful to be blessed with this honor. As a scientist and educator, the NSF CAREER award allows me to integrate the very core of who I am as a scientist and educator. Forever grateful to past and present members of my lab for helping me accomplish this dream.
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Liz Essley Whyte @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding
The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.
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Katsu Funai @katsufunai.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social
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Open Rank, Tenure Track Position – Metabolic Physiology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with University of Utah | 674355
The Department of Nutrition and Integrated Physiology (NUIP) at the University of Utah seeks a Tenure Track faculty member at the rank of Assistant...
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Amy Weeks @amyweeks.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Excited to share our latest: we engineered the reactivity of a bacterial E1-like enzyme for ATP-driven modification of C termini. Our tool mimics the logic of peptide bond formation in biology for precision modification of proteins in vitro. 🧪https://rdcu.be/ewN7C
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Engineered reactivity of a bacterial E1-like enzyme enables ATP-driven modification of protein and peptide C termini
Nature Chemistry - In living systems, ATP provides an energetic driving force for protein synthesis and modification. Now, an engineered enzymatic tool has been developed for high-yield, ATP-driven...
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Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... Coenzyme Q headgroup intermediates can ameliorate a mitochondrial encephalopathy
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Coenzyme Q headgroup intermediates can ameliorate a mitochondrial encephalopathy - Nature
Decreased brain coenzyme Q10 levels cause encephalopathy and are associated with neurodegeneration; supplementation with 4-HMA or 4-HB restores coenzyme Q10 synthesis in mice and humans with HPDL vari...
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Gregory Ducker Lab @duckerlab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨Postdoctoral position available now! 🚨We have an immediate fully funded position available in cardiac metabolism. We are looking for a highly motivated person to lead our animal model work in oxidative metabolism in heart! Pay is competitive with benefits offered and you get to live in Utah. 1/2
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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/05/2025
Mass Spec xkcd.com/3094/
[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.
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Gregory Ducker Lab @duckerlab.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
New paper alert! Huge congrats to my graduate student Jesse Velasco on his first author publication in physiological reports. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14814...
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Loss of hepatic autophagy induces α‐cell proliferation through impaired glutamine‐dependent gluconeogenesis
Autophagy, the highly conserved process of protein and organelle degradation, is suppressed in the liver by obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease and associated with the de...
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Morgridge Metabolism @morgridgemeta.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We @morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social, in partnership with @bmolchem.bsky.social , are looking for a great new metabolism researcher to join our @morgridgemeta.bsky.social team. Please see ad below and send along to your colleagues! morgridge.org/job-posting/...
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Assistant Professor in Metabolism Research - Morgridge Institute for Research
The Morgridge Institute for Research, in partnership with the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, seeks a joint tenure track assistant professor to lead a vibr...
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 19/05/2025
So much healthy food discourse is disguised versions of "have you tried not consuming a quart of oil daily"
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 17/05/2025
i would say the modal opinion among the media-political elite is that trumpers are basically correct that our government/elite universities have been taken over by woke ideology/too many minorities and women and that trump is providing a welcome corrective even if it goes too far
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Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"Do your own research" to decide about therapies is like asking to someone to learn to fly to get into a plane. It complete erodes the trust in each other and the essence of society.
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
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US Applicant Week
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice!
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DeBerardinis Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center @rjdlab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
1/My 7th grader's science homework is to learn the elements Memorize atomic masses. She points out that carbon has a mass of 12. My life passes before my eyes. Finally, my chance to explain what I've been doing for 20 yrs. So I say, kind of casually, "you know, sometimes carbon has a mass of 13..."
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Gregory Ducker Lab @duckerlab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Guess gender has been banned at NIH
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 01/04/2025
Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation
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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
My favorite science is the kind that makes you says, "Man, I wish I thought of that!" This is such a paper. Mass action turns an eraser into a pen. HDACs are metabolite-dependent histone acyltransferases. @dremilygoldberg.bsky.social @gburslem.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reversible histone deacetylase activity catalyzes lysine acylation - Nature Chemical Biology
Tsusaka et al. discover that histone deacetylases, which are well known to remove protein modifications, such as lysine acetylation and β-hydroxybutyrylation, can also reverse their chemical activity ...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It appears that the overarching UM grant for the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Awards was terminated. It is no longer in NIH Reporter. Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations... Another obscenity...
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Enormously harmful to the future of science. My heart breaks for these students who were excited to learn and experience research firsthand.
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Lucas Sullivan @lucasbsullivan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Excited to share a recent preprint by Oliver Newsom, where we evaluate the functional contributions of serum for cancer cell proliferation. Inside: A broadly applicable serum-free media, Quantitative lipid uptake characterization, Evidence lipid scavenging > synthesis for cancer cell proliferation.
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Rich Law @drrichjlaw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Recursion CEO Chris Gibson: Publicly funded research built the biopharma industry. Now it needs our help. Companies with resources must bridge the gap. 👏 $RXRX via @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/n...
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Recursion CEO: Publicly funded research built the biopharma industry. Now it needs our help
If policymakers fail to act swiftly to restore medical research funding, then it’s up to those of us in the industry with the resources to bridge the gap, writes Recursion Pharmaceuticals CEO Chris Gi...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I wrote a book The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2013, title adopted after Schumpeter). This title of the book for what we are now seeing in the U.S. is just The Destruction of Medicine.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
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DeBerardinis Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center @rjdlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Congrats Gerta! We are proud of you!
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 05/02/2025
The NSF is the US engine of basic science discovery and technology innovation. This decision is a gift to our overseas competitors.
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Celia Ford @celiaford.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
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Gregory Ducker Lab @duckerlab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Happy New Year. I’m pleased to report publication of the Ducker lab’s latest cancer metabolism paper led by graduate student Kyle Dunlap in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports.... 1/n
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SLC7A5 is required for cancer cell growth under arginine-limited conditions
Metabolic adaptations are key to cancer cell survival in nutrient-limited microenvironments, but strategies for coping with arginine scarcity are poorly understood. Dunlap et al. use CRISPR screening and metabolomics to identify the plasma membrane transporter SLC7A5 as a citrulline transporter essential for cancer cell growth under arginine limitation.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/second? Why can we only think about one thing at a time?" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... From The Unbearable Slowness of Being
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
At @science.org, the Breakthrough of the Year 2024 Lenacapavir – a new injectable drug that prevents HIV infection "The Long Shot" science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cosimo Commisso @cosimocommisso.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
🚨 New bioRxiv study! 🚨 PDAC adapts to glutamine depletion via macropinocytosis, reshaping CAF subtypes & tumor stroma. Blocking it sensitizes tumors to therapy. Shoutout to Dr. Yijuan Zhang for leading this amazing work! Read more: 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #CancerResearch #PDAC #TME
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Macropinocytosis controls metabolic stress-driven CAF subtype identity in pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tumors are deficient in glutamine, an amino acid that tumor cells and CAFs use to sustain their fitness. In PDAC, both cell types stimulate macropinocytosis as ...
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Jim Steenburgh @professorpowder.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Lots of great stuff happening at the U where enrollment has never been higher. This will be an unnecessary setback that will affect student outcomes and reduce innovation.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
A whopping (~90%) reduction of progression to Type 2 diabetes with tirzepatide (GLP-1 drug, dual receptor) vs placebo in a randomized trial of >2,500 participants with obesity, absolute reduction of 10/100 treated t.co/71hKD8v7Y2
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Gregory Ducker Lab @duckerlab.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We’re live on Bluesky! Don’t post a ton but try to retweet all the cool science I come across.
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