When a Mentee becomes a Mentor! Congrats to my other postdoc, @HKbeasley on your co-senior with me (@AtHinton) mentoring is so important, and I am so proud of you. You took all three summer students last year under your wing and look what happened! It feels my heart with glee! @BlackinCancer @BlackInPhysio @BlackInCardio @blackinxnetwork @natblackpostdoc Thank you to her funding @TheEndoSociety #FLARE @UNCF @EEJustLSSociety @BWFUND @amays_bwfund Congrats to the co-first @bryanna_ys, Mason, & Ashton! Thank you @WileyGlobal Press @JCellularPhys! Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Congrats @HKbeasley on such a high impact review in @CircRes as a co-author with Dr. Kirabo. I cannot wait for your first author with @annetkiraboc1 and @phdgprotein86 to be finished on salt sensitive hypertension. Congrats to @jmafolabi on your first author, @sepiso_masenga and thank you @annetkiraboc1 for your amazing mentorship! Link: ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/… Thank you to my funding @cziscience @czi @BWFUND @UNCF @EEJustLSSociety

Congrats to my amazing graduate student, @CrabRoll Amber Crabtree who holds a 3.9 GPA, has 2 first authors and 3 co-first authors, passed her qual today! @CrabRoll Amber Crabtree know we are all proud of you and thank you @DrDreNeuroWay @ZerVue @HKbeasley for helping to prepare her. Thank you @NeikirkKit & @ScientistsLift for always being helpful in the lab with @CrabRoll I look forward to wrapping up your dissertation with your 3 mechanistic projects with your co-mentor, @annetkiraboc1. @VanderbiltU @VUmedicine @VUBasicSciences @VandyBasicScDEI @VanderbiltMPB I want to thank the @theWondry, Frist Center for Autism & Innovation, Dr. Prof. Keivan Stassun of Vandy Physics and @NSF for funding Amber! She is a blast to have in the laboratory, your resources, time, and mentoring have made the difference. Congrats on your 3 first authors of 8- Link: Crabtree, A., Neikirk, K., Marshall, A. G., Vang, L., Whiteside, A. J., Williams, Q., Altamura, C. T., Owens, T. C., Stephens, D., Shao, B., Koh, A., Killion, M., Lopez, E. G., Lam, J., Rodriguez, B., Mungai, M., Stanley, J., Dean, E. D., Koh, H. J., Gaddy, J. A., … Hinton, A., Jr (2024). Defining Mitochondrial Cristae Morphology Changes Induced by Aging in Brown Adipose Tissue. Advanced biology, 8(1), e2300186. doi.org/10.1002/adbi.2023001… (cover article) Link: Stephens, D. C., Mungai, M., Crabtree, A., Beasley, H. K., Garza-Lopez, E., Vang, L., Neikirk, K., Vue, Z., Vue, N., Marshall, A. G., Turner, K., Shao, J. Q., Sarker, B., Murray, S., Gaddy, J. A., Davis, J., Damo, S. M., & Hinton, A. O., Jr (2023). Protocol for isolating mice skeletal muscle myoblasts and myotubes via differential antibody validation. STAR protocols, 4(4), 102591. doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2023.… (co-first) Link: Quantitative Assessment of Morphological Changes in Lipid Droplets and Lipid-Mito Interactions with Aging in Brown Adipose Amber Crabtree, Kit Neikirk, Aaron Whiteside, Jessica McKenzie, Zer Vue, Larry Vang, Trinity Celeste Owens, Ashton Oliver, Faben Zeleke, Heather K. Beasley, Edgar Garza Lopez, Estevão Scudese, Alice Koh, Suzanne Navarro, Jacob Lam, Ben Kirk, Margaret Mungai, Mariya Sweetwyne, Ho-Jin Koh, Elma Zaganjor, Steven M. Damo, Jennifer A. Gaddy, Clintoria Williams, Melanie R. McReynolds, Andrea G. Marshall, Antentor Hinton Jr. bioRxiv 2023.09.23.559135; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.23.5… (will be out shortly) Thank you @cziscience @czi @BWFUND @UNCF @EEJustLSSociety for the funding to keep the lab going! Thank you to my scientific societies for their support and advice. @TheEndoSociety @Endocrine_News @ASCBiology @ASBMB @American_Heart @AHAScience @APSPhysiology @MicroscopySoc

More great work from @AtHinton lab has led to the front cover & inside cover. Thank you @IntMedAbel for your mentorship! Thank you @KattiiPrasanna for being my co-first & thank you, Drs. @brianglancylab & @RePereira Thank you @WileyGlobal Press & the Journal of Cell Physiology