Van Andel Institute ranks No. 3 on the 2026 Nature Index Research Leaders list of North American nonprofit research organizations for biological sciences. #NatureIndexResearchLeaders
Big weekend for the Nowinski lab! TWO new mtFAS preprints online!
So excited to see this out! Congratulations to @sarahehancock.bsky.social and everyone involved!
Check out the latest preprint from our lab group, where we show targeting lipid metabolism can sensitise pancreatic cancer cells to gemacitabine-based chemotherapy. Congrats to our postdoc @sarahehancock.bsky.social for pulling this one together.
As the community grows fast, here is an updated Metabolism Starter Pack 2 with loads of exciting scientists
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Massive work from Jess Spinelli's lab at UMASS demonstrating a SECOND electron carrier in the mammalian ETC:
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Hot meeting alert!! 🚨🚨 @vai.org is hosting Rising Stars and Horizons in Metabolism, a new format, 2 day symposium highlighting both established and up and coming leaders in Metabolic research. Check it out and register here: www.vai.org/event/rising...
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Valeros et al. identify rhodoquinone (RQ), an electron carrier present in mammalian
mitochondria, that can deliver electrons to fumarate instead of O2 as the terminal
electron acceptor. The authors de...
