Gregory Ducker Lab
@duckerlab.bsky.social
University of Utah Biochemist. Metabolism lab focused on all things tracing. Part time ski bum. https://ducker.biochem.utah.edu/
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🚨Postdoctoral position available now! 🚨We have an immediate fully funded position available in cardiac metabolism. We are looking for a highly motivated person to lead our animal model work in oxidative metabolism in heart! Pay is competitive with benefits offered and you get to live in Utah. 1/2
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Fantastic opportunity for undergraduates pursuing summer research experience! @hhmi.org
Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Fantastic opportunity for undergraduates pursuing summer research experience! @hhmi.org
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16 (! What?) years ago I went to my first ABRCMS and was welcomed and encouraged to pursue my scientific dreams. I met folks that provided direct feedback on my graduate school applications and served a pivotal role in my career. I am honored return and give back again as faculty.
#ABRCMS2025
#ABRCMS2025
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
16 (! What?) years ago I went to my first ABRCMS and was welcomed and encouraged to pursue my scientific dreams. I met folks that provided direct feedback on my graduate school applications and served a pivotal role in my career. I am honored return and give back again as faculty.
#ABRCMS2025
#ABRCMS2025
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How do cancer cells use the nutrients to grow and how can that knowledge lead to better care? Gregory Ducker, PhD, studies the metabolism of cancer. @duckerlab.bsky.social aims to uncover new ideas for future therapies & ways to make current treatments even more effective. @uofubiochem.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
How do cancer cells use the nutrients to grow and how can that knowledge lead to better care? Gregory Ducker, PhD, studies the metabolism of cancer. @duckerlab.bsky.social aims to uncover new ideas for future therapies & ways to make current treatments even more effective. @uofubiochem.bsky.social
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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this is wild - i was aware of Mary-Claire King's absurdly important discoveries on BRCA / inherited breast cancer but I had no idea that her first PhD paper (King & Wilson 1975, Science, not bad lol) is the "99% of protein coding shared btwn chimps and humans" result
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
September 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
this is wild - i was aware of Mary-Claire King's absurdly important discoveries on BRCA / inherited breast cancer but I had no idea that her first PhD paper (King & Wilson 1975, Science, not bad lol) is the "99% of protein coding shared btwn chimps and humans" result
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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In a time as this— I am deeply thankful to be blessed with this honor. As a scientist and educator, the NSF CAREER award allows me to integrate the very core of who I am as a scientist and educator.
Forever grateful to past and present members of my lab for helping me accomplish this dream.
Forever grateful to past and present members of my lab for helping me accomplish this dream.
July 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
In a time as this— I am deeply thankful to be blessed with this honor. As a scientist and educator, the NSF CAREER award allows me to integrate the very core of who I am as a scientist and educator.
Forever grateful to past and present members of my lab for helping me accomplish this dream.
Forever grateful to past and present members of my lab for helping me accomplish this dream.
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UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding
The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.
www.wsj.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social
Open Rank, Tenure Track Position – Metabolic Physiology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with University of Utah | 674355
The Department of Nutrition and Integrated Physiology (NUIP) at the University of Utah seeks a Tenure Track faculty member at the rank of Assistant...
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July 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social
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Excited to share our latest: we engineered the reactivity of a bacterial E1-like enzyme for ATP-driven modification of C termini. Our tool mimics the logic of peptide bond formation in biology for precision modification of proteins in vitro. 🧪https://rdcu.be/ewN7C
Engineered reactivity of a bacterial E1-like enzyme enables ATP-driven modification of protein and peptide C termini
Nature Chemistry - In living systems, ATP provides an energetic driving force for protein synthesis and modification. Now, an engineered enzymatic tool has been developed for high-yield, ATP-driven...
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July 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Excited to share our latest: we engineered the reactivity of a bacterial E1-like enzyme for ATP-driven modification of C termini. Our tool mimics the logic of peptide bond formation in biology for precision modification of proteins in vitro. 🧪https://rdcu.be/ewN7C
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Coenzyme Q headgroup intermediates can ameliorate a mitochondrial encephalopathy
Coenzyme Q headgroup intermediates can ameliorate a mitochondrial encephalopathy
Coenzyme Q headgroup intermediates can ameliorate a mitochondrial encephalopathy - Nature
Decreased brain coenzyme Q10 levels cause encephalopathy and are associated with neurodegeneration; supplementation with 4-HMA or 4-HB restores coenzyme Q10 synthesis in mice and humans with HPDL vari...
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July 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Coenzyme Q headgroup intermediates can ameliorate a mitochondrial encephalopathy
Coenzyme Q headgroup intermediates can ameliorate a mitochondrial encephalopathy
🚨Postdoctoral position available now! 🚨We have an immediate fully funded position available in cardiac metabolism. We are looking for a highly motivated person to lead our animal model work in oxidative metabolism in heart! Pay is competitive with benefits offered and you get to live in Utah. 1/2
July 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🚨Postdoctoral position available now! 🚨We have an immediate fully funded position available in cardiac metabolism. We are looking for a highly motivated person to lead our animal model work in oxidative metabolism in heart! Pay is competitive with benefits offered and you get to live in Utah. 1/2
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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
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![[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid7lnvd7afmasx3nxi6anxmyhbatpaw54za3kiw3eaoclrf722faq@jpeg)
New paper alert! Huge congrats to my graduate student Jesse Velasco on his first author publication in physiological reports. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14814...
Loss of hepatic autophagy induces α‐cell proliferation through impaired glutamine‐dependent gluconeogenesis
Autophagy, the highly conserved process of protein and organelle degradation, is suppressed in the liver by obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease and associated with the de...
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New paper alert! Huge congrats to my graduate student Jesse Velasco on his first author publication in physiological reports. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14814...
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We @morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social, in partnership with
@bmolchem.bsky.social , are looking for a great new metabolism researcher to join our @morgridgemeta.bsky.social team. Please see ad below and send along to your colleagues!
morgridge.org/job-posting/...
@bmolchem.bsky.social , are looking for a great new metabolism researcher to join our @morgridgemeta.bsky.social team. Please see ad below and send along to your colleagues!
morgridge.org/job-posting/...
Assistant Professor in Metabolism Research - Morgridge Institute for Research
The Morgridge Institute for Research, in partnership with the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, seeks a joint tenure track assistant professor to lead a vibr...
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May 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We @morgridgeinstitute.bsky.social, in partnership with
@bmolchem.bsky.social , are looking for a great new metabolism researcher to join our @morgridgemeta.bsky.social team. Please see ad below and send along to your colleagues!
morgridge.org/job-posting/...
@bmolchem.bsky.social , are looking for a great new metabolism researcher to join our @morgridgemeta.bsky.social team. Please see ad below and send along to your colleagues!
morgridge.org/job-posting/...
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So much healthy food discourse is disguised versions of "have you tried not consuming a quart of oil daily"
They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.
May 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
So much healthy food discourse is disguised versions of "have you tried not consuming a quart of oil daily"
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i would say the modal opinion among the media-political elite is that trumpers are basically correct that our government/elite universities have been taken over by woke ideology/too many minorities and women and that trump is providing a welcome corrective even if it goes too far
May 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i would say the modal opinion among the media-political elite is that trumpers are basically correct that our government/elite universities have been taken over by woke ideology/too many minorities and women and that trump is providing a welcome corrective even if it goes too far
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"Do your own research" to decide about therapies is like asking to someone to learn to fly to get into a plane. It complete erodes the trust in each other and the essence of society.
May 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Do your own research" to decide about therapies is like asking to someone to learn to fly to get into a plane. It complete erodes the trust in each other and the essence of society.
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U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?
Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.
U.S. Applicant Week:
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.
U.S. Applicant Week:
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
US Applicant Week
www.grad.ubc.ca
April 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?
Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.
U.S. Applicant Week:
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.
U.S. Applicant Week:
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
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Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice!
April 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice!
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1/My 7th grader's science homework is to learn the elements Memorize atomic masses. She points out that carbon has a mass of 12. My life passes before my eyes. Finally, my chance to explain what I've been doing for 20 yrs. So I say, kind of casually, "you know, sometimes carbon has a mass of 13..."
April 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
1/My 7th grader's science homework is to learn the elements Memorize atomic masses. She points out that carbon has a mass of 12. My life passes before my eyes. Finally, my chance to explain what I've been doing for 20 yrs. So I say, kind of casually, "you know, sometimes carbon has a mass of 13..."
Guess gender has been banned at NIH
April 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Guess gender has been banned at NIH
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Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation
Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):
Big Pharma Needs to Get Off the Sidelines
The industry can’t continue to sit idly by while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. guts the nation’s public health agencies.
www.bloomberg.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation
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My favorite science is the kind that makes you says, "Man, I wish I thought of that!" This is such a paper.
Mass action turns an eraser into a pen. HDACs are metabolite-dependent histone acyltransferases.
@dremilygoldberg.bsky.social @gburslem.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mass action turns an eraser into a pen. HDACs are metabolite-dependent histone acyltransferases.
@dremilygoldberg.bsky.social @gburslem.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reversible histone deacetylase activity catalyzes lysine acylation - Nature Chemical Biology
Tsusaka et al. discover that histone deacetylases, which are well known to remove protein modifications, such as lysine acetylation and β-hydroxybutyrylation, can also reverse their chemical activity ...
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March 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
My favorite science is the kind that makes you says, "Man, I wish I thought of that!" This is such a paper.
Mass action turns an eraser into a pen. HDACs are metabolite-dependent histone acyltransferases.
@dremilygoldberg.bsky.social @gburslem.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mass action turns an eraser into a pen. HDACs are metabolite-dependent histone acyltransferases.
@dremilygoldberg.bsky.social @gburslem.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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It appears that the overarching UM grant for the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Awards was terminated. It is no longer in NIH Reporter.
Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations...
Another obscenity...
Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations...
Another obscenity...
March 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It appears that the overarching UM grant for the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Awards was terminated. It is no longer in NIH Reporter.
Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations...
Another obscenity...
Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations...
Another obscenity...