Recent lab news
02/24 Welcome Mari! Mari is a new PhD student in the BMBB program.
01/24 Santiago joins the lab. We are so excited for Santiago - a research scientist - to join the lab.
11/23 Sad that Erica is leaving but happy that she secured her dream job at Olympus.
10/23 Congratulations to Charlie for moving on to his new Assistant Professor position at Virginia Tech University.
08/23 Congratulations to Tim and many others for publishing the characterization of the ACOT1 KO mouse in JCI Insight.
06/23 Congrats to Evan for earning a spot on the NIH T32 MN Obesity Prevention Training Grant.
06/23 The lab welcomes Simone Intriago as a new post-bacc researcher.
05/23 Congratulations to Matthew and Suhur - two truly amazing and talented undergrads that have graduated. We will miss them both so much but are so excited to see all the great things they will accomplish in the years ahead.
05/23 Congrats to Mahima for winning an abstract award at the Midwest Aging Conference.
03/23 Congrats to Charlie for this first-author paper - and all those that helped - in Cell Reports.
01/23 Congrats Erica for getting a spot on the Functional Proteomics of Aging T32!
12/22 Yay to the lab for getting a brand new R01 to study how lipid droplets interact with other organelles to compartmentalize metabolism and signaling.
08/22 Farewell (sad) to Tim for leaving the lab to start (exciting) his new faculty position at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Can't wait to see all the great things to come.
08/22 Congrats Linshan (and half the lab) on getting our first-ever drosophila paper published in Aging. Maybe lipolysis isn't so bad after all.
08/22 Congrats to Tim for getting his first author paper published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.
08/22 Congrats to Tim on accepting an Assistant Professorship at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. While we will miss him immensely, we are so excited to see all the things he will accomplish in his new lab. Viva la glycophagy!
07/22 Congrats to Jonas on a successful thesis defense!!!
07/22 Congrats to Mahima for getting her F30 funded from the NIA!
06/22 The Mashek lab welcomes new postdoctoral fellow Erica Gansemer to the laboratory.
03/22 Congrats to Charlie and Mahima for publishing their review on perilipins in the Journal of Cell Science.
10/21 Congrats to Em for getting their first author paper accepted in JLR!
9/21 Tim publishes his muscle glycophagy paper in Autophagy. His first co-corresponding author paper! Congrats! Excited to see this area of research explode.
08/21 Mahama passes (totally rocked) her prelim exam! Congrats Mahima! PhD, here we come!
04/21 Charlie wins the Paul D. Boyer & James B. Peter Award for outstanding postdoc in BMBB. Wow, two years running!
04/21 Evan awarded a spot on the T32 Training Grant on Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism. Congrats Evan!
03/21 Charlie is awarded a K99 grant from NIH/NIA! What a great honor and advancment towards his own independent lab. Congrats!
03/21 Wenqi’s first author paper on lipophagy and fatty acid channeling is published in Autophagy. Congrats!
02/21 After 3+ years Wenqi says goodbye to the Mashek lab:( Congratulations on a great step forward in landing a postdoctoral fellowship at NIH!
02/21 Evan Kerr joins the Mashek laboratory.
12/20 Our review on muscle lipid droplets is published in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. Congrats Jake on the lead author publication!
09/20 The lab is awarded a R01 from NIA to study lipid metabolism and aging!
09/20 The lab is awarded a grant from the Iowa/MN Diabetes Center to further our studies on the sub-cellular compartmentalization of metabolism!
09/20 Breann joins the Mashek lab and earns a spot on the MN Obesity Prevention Training Grant. Welcome and congrats Bree!
08/20 Tim is awarded a K01 to further his studies of glycophagy!!! A huge step closer to getting his own laboratory!
08/20 First year MSTP (MD/PHD) student Mahima joins the lab. Welcome to grad school and the lab Mahima!!
06/20 Jonas passes his oral exam! Congrats Jonas!
04/20 Our manuscript with Lisa Chow on time-restricted eating in humans if published in Obesity! Congrats team!
04/20 Tim wins the Paul D. Boyer & James B. Peter Award for outstanding postdoc in BMBB.
02/20 Charlie’s first author paper, and major team effort, identifying MUFAs as SIRT1 activators is published in Molecular Cell (and highlighted in Science)!
01/20 Linshan and Doug’s commentary on PNPLA3 and NAFLD is published in Hepatology.
01/20 Em earns a spot on the T32 on Functional proteomics of Aging Training Grant. Congrats Em!