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Mike Lange

@mikelangelipid.bsky.social
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Postdoc at University of California at Berkeley. Excited about lipid metabolism and lipid quality control #massspec #lipidomics #ferroptosis

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
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Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
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Mike Lange @mikelangelipid.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Lipid people, this one is special! The registration for the EMBO "Lipid Code to Life" meeting is now open. An extraordinary opportunity for the lipid community to connect and share cutting-edge science. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! #GoLipids meetings.embo.org/event/26-lip...
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The lipid code to life
Modern lipid biology has evolved far beyond the traditional view of lipids as simple building blocks or energy substrates. Lipids are now recognised as dynamic regulators of biological structures and…
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Henne lab @hennelab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Interested in lipids? Join us @ the 2026 FASEB Lipid Droplet: From Mechanisms to Disease Conference (July 26-30, Scottsdale, AZ). Registration is now open! events.faseb.org/event/Lipid-... We are co-locating with the FASEB Phospholipids SRC! Register for one to enjoy BOTH meetings!
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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Happy new year! I've so enjoyed the end-of-year lists of people's favorite papers from 2025, so I made a list of 16 #lipidtime studies from 2025 that I found interesting. Here they are in no particular order (please add more if you would like!), and here's to much more exciting science in 2026! 🧪
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Coskun Lipid Cellar @ ZML Dresden @lipid.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Ups we did it again! Please mark your calender. EMBO Workshop “Lipid Code to Life”, taking place September 7–11, 2026, in Dresden, organized by Maria Fedorova, @lipid.bsky.social, Valerie O'Donnell, @holthuislab.bsky.social and @molcellbiophys-lab.bsky.social 🥳 Retweets = lipidlove
copyright Palina Nepachalovich of ZML Dresden
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 16/11/2025
☕ @mikelangelipid.bsky.social @olzmannlab.bsky.social & co identify a #LipidDroplet quality control pathway in which FSP1 safeguards stored neutral lipids from lipid peroxidation, thereby preventing the induction of #ferroptosis. @berkeleymcb.bsky.social bit.ly/49mTeyF
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FSP1-mediated lipid droplet quality control prevents neutral lipid peroxidation and ferroptosis - Nature Cell Biology
Lange et al. identify a lipid droplet quality control pathway in which FSP1 safeguards stored neutral lipids from lipid peroxidation, thereby preventing the induction of ferroptosis.
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Mike Lange @mikelangelipid.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Excited to share my postdoc work @olzmannlab.bsky.social! We found lipid droplets, the cell’s lipid storage depots, are subject to oxidative damage and are protected by FSP1. Loss of FSP1 triggers droplet peroxidation and cell death, revealing a new layer of lipid quality control! shorturl.at/B5XYD
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FSP1-mediated lipid droplet quality control prevents neutral lipid peroxidation and ferroptosis - Nature Cell Biology
Lange et al. identify a lipid droplet quality control pathway in which FSP1 safeguards stored neutral lipids from lipid peroxidation, thereby preventing the induction of ferroptosis.
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Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern @cri-utsw.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We're growing! Our newest Investigator @henrydebelly.bsky.social will join the CRI Tissue #Regeneration Program in January 2026. Learn more about Henry ➡️ cri.utsw.edu/faculty/henr... and 📌apply to research in his lab cri.utsw.edu/careers
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James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Excited to share our new preprint, led by Kirandeep Deol! 🤩 Genetic screens uncover mechanisms regulating FSP1 abundance in cancer. Vitamin B2 metabolism promotes FSP1 stability via FAD synth / binding, further linking nutrient metabolism to ferroptosis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Vitamin B2 metabolism promotes FSP1 stability to prevent ferroptosis
Ferroptosis, a regulated form of cell death driven by excessive lipid peroxidation, has emerged as a promising therapeutic target in cancer. Ferroptosis suppressor protein 1 (FSP1) is a critical regul...
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James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The count down has begun! 1-week until the 1st FASEB Ferroptosis conference! Looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting. Get excited!! 🤩 events.faseb.org/event/11797f...
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Jesse Garcia Castillo, PhD @jgcastillo.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
My third paper from grad school is out on Biorxiv! This was a fun collaboration with @olzmannlab.bsky.social where we show that Ferroptosis Suppressor Protein-1 is a better target than GPX4 because it disrupts Treg function while leaving effector T cell function intact.
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James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
New preprint w/ the Dupage lab led by @jgcastillo.bsky.social! FSP1 KO in Tregs / Tcells promotes tumor suppression, highlighting the therapeutic value potential of FSP1 inhibition. New paradigm for targeting ferroptosis in immune system (not just in cancer cells). 🤩 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Selective disruption of lipid peroxide homeostasis in intratumoral regulatory T cells by targeting FSP1 enhances cancer immunity
A burgeoning approach to treat cancer is the pharmacological induction of ferroptotic cell death of tumor cells. However, the impact of disrupting anti-ferroptotic pathways in the broader tumor microe...
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James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
FYI - We've extended abstract submission deadline to June 8. Submit soon to be considered for a short talk. Come join us at the first FASEB #Ferroptosis meeting! It's going to be awwwwesome! 🤩 events.faseb.org/event/11797f...
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Home - Ferroptosis, Oxidative Stress, and Lipid Metabolism
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Pavel Barahtjan @pavelbarahtjan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The world is small... Randomly found out that @mikelangelipid.bsky.social and I are both in Osaka, so we met up for some drinks and #lipidtime talk.
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Ubellacker Lab @ubellackerlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Our team (hsph.harvard.edu/research/ube...) is excited to have contributed to the intranodal in vivo testing of the remarkable new compound, Fentomycin-1. Congrats to team Rodriguez et al. for the implications of this work in targeting ferroptosis in cancer. Check it out here!
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James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Excited to see our N&V w/ @mikelangelipid.bsky.social published in Nature, highlighting new work from Raphael Rodriguez and team. A heterofunctional molecule that activates lysosomal iron triggers lipid peroxidation and ferroptosis in therapy-resistant cancer cells. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Lipid-degrading small molecule kills cancer cells by ferroptosis
A molecule designed to activate iron locked up in organelles called lysosomes and thereby induce cell death might offer a way to tackle treatment-resistant cancer.
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Mike Lange @mikelangelipid.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Fantastic new study from Raphael Rodriguez' lab shows that induced proximity concepts can be used to induce Ferroptosis! Inducing proximity of lysosomal iron and lipids induces lipid peroxidation! What a cool concept! Have a look at our News/Views with @olzmannlab.bsky.social shorturl.at/cbc8D
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Lipid-degrading small molecule kills cancer cells by ferroptosis
A molecule designed to activate iron locked up in organelles called lysosomes and thereby induce cell death might offer a way to tackle treatment-resistant cancer.
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated. www.spencer.org/grant_types/... hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j... Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Mike Lange @mikelangelipid.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Join for the first FASEB Ferroptosis conference in the US this July! This stellar speaker line up brings together almost all leaders in the field!
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West Coast Metabolomics Center UCDavis @metabolomics-wcmc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Join us next week: Bits and Bites on May 8, from 9-1pm, on Zoom. Registration and payment here: na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.p... We will present and discuss the best practice for #Quality Control and Quality Assurance. #metabolomics #NMR #GC-MS #LC-MS @mikelangelipid.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
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Mike Lange @mikelangelipid.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Fantastic study out today by superstar postdoc @aakritijain.bsky.social! It identifies the unresolved function of LyLAP, a protein associated with poor prognosis in PDAC. It is not a phospholipase but a membrane protein protease! Happy that I could help through our untargeted lipidomics platform
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 07/02/2025
“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av
A Lancet Editorial: “American chaos: standing up for health and medicine”
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 04/02/2025
RIP any human subjects methods section: women, gender, female, excluded RIP math/stats: biases, marginalise, equality, inequality, group, inclusive RIP social sciences: status, systemic, political, group, socioeconomic, institutional, cultural This is not just evil it is also SO VERY DUMB
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel. I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times! Pls repost 🙏❤️
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James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Excited to share our new preprint! Exceptional work by @mikelangelipid.bsky.social identifies the first #LipidDroplet lipid quality control pathway! LD-localized FSP1 safeguards neutral lipids from peroxidation and prevents #ferroptosis. 🤩https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631537v1
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FSP1-mediated lipid droplet quality control prevents neutral lipid peroxidation and ferroptosis
Lipid droplets (LDs) are organelles that store and supply lipids based on cellular needs. While mechanisms preventing oxidative damage to membrane phospholipids are established, the vulnerability of L...
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Mike Lange @mikelangelipid.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I am excited to report the preprint of my postdoc work in the @olzmannlab.bsky.social! We have discovered the first lipid droplet quality control pathway with broad implications for lipid physiology and diseases associated with LD accumulation and oxidative stress! #lipidtime shorturl.at/2HqFd
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Bianca Schrul @biancaschrul.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Interested in #organelle biogenesis, subcellular #membrane #protein targeting or #LipidMetabolism? We are hiring! #PhD student or #postdoc. We combine #Biochemistry & #CellBiology with Computational Modeling & Experimental Physics / Physical Chemistry approaches. #research #academicsky #AcademicJob
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Mike Lange @mikelangelipid.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Happy to see the scientific community thriving at Bluesky! I am a postdoc at UC Berkeley in the @olzmannlab.bsky.social and I combine lipidomics, redox and cell biology and in vitro biochemistry to understand pathways of cellular lipid quality control. Excited to see some cool #LipidTime on here!
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