We have a thesis defense to celebrate today, but first - we need to celebrate the publication of former student Dr. Michaela Trautman's opus, "Dietary isoleucine content modulates the metabolic and molecular response to a Western diet in mice" now in Mol Metab! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our most recent work by graduate student @mariahcalubag
- demonstrating the sex-specific extension of lifespan by valine restriction was presented last week at #ARDD2025 and is now available on bioRxiv! Thanks to Daniela Bakula, @scheibyeknudsenlab.bsky.social, and Alex Zhavoronkov for the invite!

I am pleased to report our new manuscript from graduate student Mariah Calubag and collaborators and colleagues, "Tissue-Specific Effects of Dietary Protein on Cellular Senescence Are Mediated by Branched-Chain Amino Acids" is now available! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Glad to report that this tour de force from our collaborator Caroline Alexander (with a bit of assistance from our lab in the form of Michaela Trautman) is now out: "Dietary lipids are largely deposited in skin and rapidly affect insulating properties" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heading to the @americanaging.bsky.social meeting with @mattyousefzadeh.bsky.social and Holly Brown-Borg!

It was an honor yesterday to hood graduate student Reji Babygirija and escort her at commencement. Big thanks to the keynote speaker for our hooding ceremony Dr. Christine Whelan who gave a highly inspiring and impactful address!

Also this week, @iCCup_Spec
won a fan favorite presentation award for a talk in Madison, and @RejiBabygirija successfully defended her thesis!

Catching up on the week - awesome @AgingMidwest
meeting in Rochester, MN! Congrats to @baileyknopf
for a terrific talk and winning a travel award, and @iCCup_Spec
for winning a poster award!

We celebrated the graduation of one of our graduate students, Dr. Michaela Trautman @michaelamRD! She is now a postdoc with Dr. Adam Konopka @maml_UWMadison

With the end of the year upon us, it's time for the 2024 @LammingLab year in review! Some of our accomplishments and successes are described in the thread below.

I am delighted to be able to share the latest study from the @LammingLab, “Dietary restriction of isoleucine increases healthspan and lifespan of genetically heterogeneous mice” led by postdoctoral fellow @garacreen www.cell.com/cell-metabol...

Congratulations to @LammingLab graduate student Shelly Sonsalla for receiving the UW Institute on Aging New Investigator Award!