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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

For those who wonder about the human relevance of our BCAA work, a new paper showing dietary BCAAs are associated with plasma BCAAs and plasma BCAAs are associated with multiple Cardiometabolic risk factors. www.oaepublish.com/articles/mto...

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Other benefits of Val-R include a reduction in senescent cell burden and less cancer in both sexes, and in males, reduced neuroinflammation.

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Please enjoy my new review article "Bench to bedside: is rapamycin headed for the docTOR?" Open access at: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Terrific Department of Medicine Research, and congratulations to Dr. Yang Yeh and Bailey Knopf for winning poster awards and Dr. Mariah Calubag for receiving the DOM Outstanding Graduate Student Award!

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Three amazing award winners from the Lamming Lab at the 7th Annual Midwest Aging Consortium Meeting! Congratulations to all the winners and all participants! @baileyknopf.bsky.social Yang Yeh and Amirah Nieves Medina!

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Had a fantastic metabolism and aging retreat yesterday with the @judisimcox.bsky.social and @wiscosurgicalmetab.bsky.social labs!

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

We celebrated the graduation of two of our graduate students, Dr. Reji Babygirija and Dr. Mariah Calubag! Reji is now a postdoc with @WiscoSurgMetab while Mariah is looking for a postdoc – snap her up soon!

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The third was the final paper of former graduate student Dr. Michaela Trautman, other lab members, and collaborators, “Dietary isoleucine content modulates the metabolic and molecular response to a Western diet in mice”: www.clinicalkey.com#!/content/pl...

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Pleased to annouce the publication of our new collaboration with Spencer Haws and @johndenu.bsky.social "Depletion of individual dietary amino acids induce distinct metabolic and chromatin states"

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Pleased to announce the publication of talented postdoc Dr. Yeh's new paper "Ketogenesis is Dispensable for the Metabolic Adaptations to Caloric Restriction"!

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We have a thesis defense to celebrate today, but first - we need to celebrate the publication of former student Dr. Michaela Trautman's opus, "Dietary isoleucine content modulates the metabolic and molecular response to a Western diet in mice" now in Mol Metab! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Our most recent work by graduate student @mariahcalubag - demonstrating the sex-specific extension of lifespan by valine restriction was presented last week at #ARDD2025 and is now available on bioRxiv! Thanks to Daniela Bakula, @scheibyeknudsenlab.bsky.social, and Alex Zhavoronkov for the invite!

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I am pleased to report our new manuscript from graduate student Mariah Calubag and collaborators and colleagues, "Tissue-Specific Effects of Dietary Protein on Cellular Senescence Are Mediated by Branched-Chain Amino Acids" is now available! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Glad to report that this tour de force from our collaborator Caroline Alexander (with a bit of assistance from our lab in the form of Michaela Trautman) is now out: "Dietary lipids are largely deposited in skin and rapidly affect insulating properties" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

It was an honor yesterday to hood graduate student Reji Babygirija and escort her at commencement. Big thanks to the keynote speaker for our hooding ceremony Dr. Christine Whelan who gave a highly inspiring and impactful address!

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Also this week, @iCCup_Spec won a fan favorite presentation award for a talk in Madison, and @RejiBabygirija successfully defended her thesis!

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Catching up on the week - awesome @AgingMidwest meeting in Rochester, MN! Congrats to @baileyknopf for a terrific talk and winning a travel award, and @iCCup_Spec for winning a poster award!

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

We celebrated the graduation of one of our graduate students, Dr. Michaela Trautman @michaelamRD! She is now a postdoc with Dr. Adam Konopka @maml_UWMadison

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

With the end of the year upon us, it's time for the 2024 @LammingLab year in review! Some of our accomplishments and successes are described in the thread below.

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

I am delighted to be able to share the latest study from the @LammingLab, “Dietary restriction of isoleucine increases healthspan and lifespan of genetically heterogeneous mice” led by postdoctoral fellow @garacreen www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Congratulations to @LammingLab graduate student Shelly Sonsalla for receiving the UW Institute on Aging New Investigator Award!

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