Professor studying the transport and storage of lipids at UT Health, Houston, USA and Sydney, Australia. Basketball, tennis. Opinions are my own. He/him.
Houston and Sydney
Joined January 2010
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Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
A long-standing mystery in cholesterol biology: why is ER cholesterol sensing so switch-like rather than gradual? Our answer: cholesteryl ester phase separation in the ER, which converts small lipid changes into a cooperative transcriptional response.
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Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
With so many great reviews on LDs already out, do we need another?
Sarah @cohenlaboratory & I were approached by @NatRevMCB to organize a review on LD heterogeneity and inter-organelle contacts...topics often in reviews, but not a focus. Fun project!
nature.com/articles/s41580-0…
Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
The NHMRC yesterday announced final allocations for the year. The 2025 success rate for Ideas grants was 10%, Investigator grants 13%, and Clinical Trials 9%.
Australia's total spend on healthcare and technology innovation in medicine and biotech from the Medical Research Endowment Account and Medical Research Future Fund this year will equate to the cost of 0.004 submarines.
We're spending more on a single submarine than we'll spend on medical research in 30 years.
Medical research matters. A clever country invests in the things that matter.
Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
Dr. Jack Hu (胡仕新): “More than 40 years ago, I came to America to pursue a dream, arriving at the @UMich with a small suitcase and a thirst for learning. But never in my wildest dreams I’d imagine that I would became the chancellor of @UCRiverside ” 👍
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Online today in @Nature - our latest study led by superstar postdoc @GillesRademaker detailing the role of PSCK9 in driving sterol dependent metastatic organ choice in pancreatic cancer nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
full text available here 👉 rdcu.be/em0VG and thread 👇
Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
New Wave of Alzheimer’s Therapies Actively Engage the Immune System biospace.com/drug-developmen…
Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
Heartiest congratulations @OlzmannLab . Have enjoyed following your journey from uber talented postdoctoral researcher to world leader in your field. I’m sure the best is still to come!
Thrilled to have been promoted to full professor @UCBerkeley! Thank you to all the members of my lab (past and present), my family, and my colleagues at UC Berkeley and beyond. Shout out to @DanNomura @RobertoZoncu @RapeLab @SJD956. What a journey! Very thankful. ☺️❤️
Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
Exciting story on adipogenin regulation of seipin complexes and lipid droplets in adipocytes from the Scherer lab @UTSWMedCenter! Beautiful story from discovery to structure to physiology. Very interesting seipin-ADIG cryo-EM structures! 🤩 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
We recently welcomed Rob Parton (@LabParton) to the JCS team. With his broad areas of expertise, Rob will handle papers covering a variety of topics, including membrane trafficking, lipids and endocytosis. If you’d like to discuss a possible submission, please get in touch or visit: journals.biologists.com/jcs/…
ALT Image of Robert Parton listing his areas of expertise: Electron microscopy, membrane trafficking, caveolae, caveolins, cavins, lipid droplets, membrane lipids, endocytosis, muscle structure and function, zebrafish.
Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
Here’s the big one: In collaboration with @Honigmann_Lab, @LabShevchenko, Björn Drobot and Martin Hof we present a general workflow for imaging the localization and transport of individual lipids in cells and mapping their metabolism.
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Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
"Our job's to play basketball. You got people getting up at 6AM doing 12-hour shifts. Those guys are tired…We're fortunate enough to play a game…that we love…We have to keep that in perspective [& be] full of energy every time we step on the court"
– Josh Hart on fatigue
Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
The US don’t know how good they have it with so many entrepreneurial immigrants
A staggering 44.8% of Fortune 500 companies, equating to 224 companies, have been founded by immigrants or their children.
Source: americanimmigrationcouncil.o…
Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
Thanks for Zolt's fantastic talk on human cardiac metabolism and BCAA metabolism. We had 251 attendees on Zoom last night. Look forward to Dr. Bin Gao's talk on “Inflammation in fatty liver disease: novel therapeutic targets” next Friday with the same Zoom link.
Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
So excited to be co-organizing the 2024 FASEB Lipid Droplet conference July 21-25 w/ @OlzmannLab. We have a terrific lineup of speakers w/ lots of space for talks selected from submitted abstracts.
Please RT! @FASEBorg
see here for details:
web.cvent.com/event/11b6492b…
Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
Excited our review is online! w/ @ZhipengLi2718 @MikeLangePhD @SJD956! “Lipid Quality Control and Ferroptosis: From Concept to Mechanism” We introduce the concept of lipid quality control using #ferroptosis as an illustrative example. Tweetorial! 1/8
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Hongyuan Rob Yang retweeted
I am thrilled to share our work describing the role of Aster proteins in intestinal physiology!
Aster-dependent nonvesicular transport facilitates dietary cholesterol uptake | Science science.org/doi/full/10.1126…