Lab News
September 28, 2025. Megan Kober presents at the 2025 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Retreat.
September 3, 2025. Alex Ekvik presents at the 2025 Metabolic Biology Retreat.
September 1, 2025. Jorge Holguin (Metabolism) starts his rotation in our lab. Welcome Jorge!
August 15, 2025. Alex Ekvik’s preprint about the genetically encoded tool for manipulation of ATP/ADP ratio is posted on bioRxiv!
July 1, 2025. Bowen Yang and Catherin SeSousa present at the International C. elegans Conference.
May 20, 2025. Mangyu Choe’s paper about the function of allosteric regulation of glycolytic enzymes HK and PFK by G6P, ATP, ADP, and Phosphate is published in Biophysical Journal. Congrats Mangyu!
April 17, 2025. Mangyu Choe’s paper about the genetically encoded tool for manipulation of mitochondrial membrane potential is published in Cell Chemical Biology. Congrats Mangyu!
March 31, 2025. Matt Kukurugya receives his PhD and starts as a postdoc in Will Greenleaf lab at Stanford University. Congrats Matt!
March 21, 2025. Catherin DeSousa wins Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from UC Berkeley. Congrats Catherin!
March 21, 2025. Denis presents at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Anaheim, CA
March 16, 2025. Megan Kober presents at the 2025 Metabolism, Obesity & Diabetes Scientific Retreat.
March 13, 2025. Denis presents at the Ashby Village Science and Ideas Group.
February 3, 2025. Bowen Yang’s preprint in collaboration with Aaron Streets Lab at UC Berkeley showing that calorie restriction extends the lifespan of C. elegans by inhibiting vitellogenesis is posted on bioRxiv!
December 3, 2024. Denis presents at the UC Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources Emeritus Holiday Reception.
November 8, 2024. Matt Kukurugya’s paper about the Warburg Effect is published in PNAS. Congrats Matt!
September 25, 2024. Megan Kober and Matt Kukurugya present at the CZI Physics of Life Symposium
September 24, 2024. Alex Ekvik presents at the CSHL Mechanisms of Aging conference.
September 16, 2024. Denis presents at the Advances in Computational Biology meeting in Barcelona, Spain
August 1, 2024. Denis is named a 2024 Hellman Fellow, which will provide funds to advance our work on targeting the Warburg Effect.
August 26, 2024. Denis presents at the FASEB NAD Metabolism and Signaling conference.
July 28, 2024. Megan Kober presents at the GRC Enzyme, Coenzyme and Metabolic Pathways conference.
April 24, 2024. Bowen Yang and Catherin SeSousa present at the Aging, Metabolism, Stress, Pathogenesis and Small RNAs in C. elegans meeting.
April 24, 2024. Denis presents a seminar at Yale University.
April 3, 2024. Catherin DeSousa joins our lab as a PhD student. Welcome Catherin!
March 20, 2024. Alex Ekvik wins the Best Poster Award at the 2024 Metabolism, Obesity & Diabetes Scientific Retreat. Congrats Alex!
January 23, 2024. Luke Thomas and Wanyi Zhu join our lab as undergraduate student researchers. Welcome, Luke and Wanyi!
January 22, 2024. Denis presents at a general research seminar at Calico Life Sciences
January 1, 2024. Our lab receives the MIRA award from NIH/NIGMS. A 5 year $2.266 million award that will support our work on investigating the allosteric control of human metabolic pathways.
December 31, 2023. Mangyu Choe finishes his postdoc in the lab and starts as a Research Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern. Congrats Mangyu!
December 31, 2023. Priyanka Joshi finishes her postdoc in the lab and starts as an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. Congrats Priyanka!
December 27, 2023. Mangyu Choe’s preprint about genetically encoded tool for manipulation of ∆Ψm is posted on bioRxiv!
December 2, 2023. Denis presents at the ASCB Annual Meeting.
November 20, 2023. Edna Nyangau (Metabolism) and Eric Wei (Metabolism) start their rotations in our lab. Welcome!
October 1, 2023. Our lab receives a grant from UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee to support our work on investigating whether “The Warburg Effect is the result of faster ATP production by glycolysis than respiration.”
September 29, 2022. Lynn Zhang and Shimin Zhang join our lab as undergraduate student researchers. Welcome, Lynn and Shimin!
September 10, 2023. Bowen Yang wins the Best Talk Award at the Joint MCB Retreat. Congrats Bowen!
August 28, 2023. Catherin DeSousa (Metabolism) starts her rotation in our lab. Welcome Catherin!
July 23-August 19, 2023. Bowen Yang participates in the MBL Biology of Aging Advanced Research Training Summer Course.
June 9-25, 2023. Megan Kober participates in the CSHL Metabolomics Course.
June 1, 2023. Our lab, in collaboration with Saharon Rosset’s lab at Tel Aviv University, receives a grant from Koret-UC Berkeley-Tel Aviv University Initiative in Computational Biology to support our work on using “Statistical learning for the next generation of mechanistic models of metabolism.”
April 12, 2023. Ajoy Thamattoor joins our lab as a PhD student. Welcome Ajoy!
March 15, 2023. Megan Kober wins the Best Poster Award at the 2023 Metabolism, Obesity & Diabetes Scientific Retreat. Congrats Megan!
January 27, 2023. Ajoy Thamattoor (Metabolism)and Tony Yu (Metabolism) start their rotation in our lab. Welcome!
January 15-19, 2023. Mangyu Choe presents his research at the Keystone Symposia on Bioenergetics in Health and Disease.
December 30, 2022. Mangyu Choe’s preprint about allosteric regulation of glycolysis is posted on bioRxiv! Great collaboration with Tal Einav and Rob Phillips!
December 29, 2022. Matt Kukurugya’s preprint about the Warburg Effect is posted on bioRxiv!
September 16, 2022. Derik Liu joins our lab as an undergraduate student researcher. Welcome, Derik!
September 16, 2022. Bowen Yang participates in the UC Davis Hands-on Proteomics Short Course.
August 15, 2022. Matt Kukurugya receives the University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) predoctoral fellowship award. Congrats Matt!
May 19, 2022. Bowen Yang receives Adelle Davis Scholarship. Congrats Bowen!
May 18, 2022. Megan Kober receives Elaine Hope Scholarship. Congrats Megan!
May 16, 2022. Priyanka Joshi selected to be the 2022 Leading Edge Fellow. Congrats Priyanka!
May 5, 2022. James Mbata joins our lab as a PhD student. Welcome James!
April 28, 2022. Mangyu’s and Denis’ perspective about genetically encoded tools to measure and manipulate metabolism is published in Nature Chemical Biology
April 18, 2022. Pearl Zhou presents her undergraduate research at the MCB Honors Symposium.
April 1, 2022. Xinyi Yang joins our lab as a masters student. Welcome Xinyi!
April 5, 2022. Collaborative paper with Light and Portnoy labs about the role of NAD+ recycling in Listeria Monocytogenes pathogenesis is published in eLife.
February 7, 2022. Xinyi Yang (Metabolism) starts her rotation in our lab. Welcome Xinyi!
October 12, 2021. Denis presents at the GRC Stochastic Physics in Biology.
September 15, 2021. Rachelle Stark (Metabolism), Connor Leullen (Biophysics), and James Mbata (MCB) start their rotation in the lab. Welcome!
August 4, 2021. Our lab moved to new and bigger lab space in Morgan Hall.
June 17, 2021. Our perspective on the future of bioenergetics at the intersection of cell biology, metabolism and non-equilibrium physics is published in PNAS. Based on the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Program: Cellular Energetics.
June 1, 2021. Lance Li joins the lab as NSF REU summer student. Welcome Lance!
April 28, 2021. Bowen Yang receives the MCB Outstanding GSI Award. Congrats Bowen!
April 12, 2021. Bowen Yang joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Bowen!
April 5, 2021. Alex Ekvik receives Thanks to Scandinavia Scholarship and the American-Scandinavian Foundation Award. Congrats Alex!
March 4, 2021. Denis presents keynote talk at the UC Berkeley Computational and Genomic Biology Retreat.
March 1, 2021. Sungjin Kim accepted an Assistant Professor position at the Chungnam National University. Congrats Sungjin!
October 1, 2020. Collaborative paper with Micha Rape Lab identifying the E3 ligase CUL2FEM1B and its substrate FNIP1 as core components of the reductive stress response is published in Cell.
June 13, 2020. Denis presents at the 80th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association.
June 1, 2020. Bowen Yang is accepted into the Graduate Remote Instruction Innovation Fellows Program. Congrats Bowen!
May 28, 2020. New paper from Denis’ postdoc years published in eLife describing the bioenergetic basis of gene expression response to mitochondrial dysfunction
May 7, 2020. Alex Ekvik, Megan Kober and Matt Kukurugya join the lab as our first PhD students. Welcome Alex, Megan and Matt!
April 9, 2020. Pearl Zhou receives URAP Summer Stipend Award to pursue summer research in our lab. Congrats Pearl!
February 18, 2020. MCB graduate students Martina Velichkovska and Ben Kaeser start their rotation in the lab.
February 1, 2020. Bowen Yang joins the lab as a masters student. Welcome Bowen!
February 1, 2020. Priyanka Joshi joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome Priyanka!
February 1, 2020. NST graduate student Megan Kobler starts her rotation in the lab.
December 20, 2019. Sungjin Kim joins the lab as a project scientist. Welcome Sungjin!
December 17, 2019. Denis presents at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics program on Cellular Energetics at Santa Barbara, CA. Online video of Denis’ talk can be found here.
November 25, 2019. MCB graduate students Rachael McMinimy and Ashley Segura-Roman start their rotation in the lab.
November 18 2019. Denis presents at the UCSF Diabetes & Obesity Retreat in Santa Cruz, CA
November 18, 2019. NST graduate students Alex Ekvik, Abbey Diener and Bowen Yang start their rotation in the lab.
September 9, 2019. MCB graduate student Matthew Kukurugya starts his rotation in the lab.
July 18, 2019. Denis presents at the GRC Biology of Aging conference in Sunday River, ME.
July 1, 2019. Denis starts his tenure-track appointment as an assistant professor at the Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology, the Center for Computational Biology, and the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at UC Berkeley.
February 11, 2019. Undergraduate researcher Pearl Zhou joins the lab.
February 4, 2019. MCB graduate student Joyner Cruz starts his rotation in the lab.
December 12, 2018. Denis presents at the American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB/EMBO) Meeting in San Diego.
November 9, 2018. Denis presents at the Bay Area Aging Meeting (BAAM) at UCSF.
October 2, 2018. Our lab receives the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. A $2.355 million award that will support our work on developing novel approaches for manipulation of metabolism in living organisms.
September 4, 2018. MCB graduate students Cyrus Ruediger and Justin Williams start their rotation in the lab.
July 23, 2018. Titov Lab is fully setup and ready to make discoveries!
June 1, 2018. Undergraduate researchers Carter Chan, Steven Chen and Isabella Lee-Rubio join the lab.
May 14, 2018. Mangyu Choe joins the lab as the first postdoc. Welcome Mangyu!
March 7, 2018. Denis presents a seminar at the NST Department at UC Berkeley.
January 30, 2018. Denis presents a seminar at Caltech and spends a week in Rob Phillips’ lab to work on a joint project to develop computational model of energy metabolism.
January 1, 2018. Denis starts his faculty appointment as an assistant adjunct professor at the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at UC Berkeley.
January 1, 2018. Titov Lab opens its doors!