Lab News
October 1st, 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 10th, 2023. Bowen Yang wins the Best Talk Award at the Joint MCB Retreat. Congrats Bowen!
August 28th, 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 1st, 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 12th, 2023. Ajoy Thamattoor joins our lab as a PhD student. Welcome Ajoy!
March 15th, 2023. Megan Kober wins the Best Poster Award at the 2023 Metabolism, Obesity & Diabetes Scientific Retreat. Congrats Megan!
January 27th, 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 30th, 2022. Mangyu Choe’s preprint about allosteric regulation of glycolysis is posted on bioRxiv! Great collaboration with Tal Einav and Rob Phillips!
December 29th, 2022. Matt Kukurugya’s preprint about the Warburg Effect is posted on bioRxiv!
September 16th, 2022. Derik Liu joins our lab as an undergraduate student researcher. Welcome, Derik!
September 16th, 2022. Bowen Yang participates in the UC Davis Hands-on Proteomics Short Course.
August 15th, 2022. Matt Kukurugya receives the University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) predoctoral fellowship award. Congrats Matt!
May 19th, 2022. Bowen Yang receives Adelle Davis Scholarship. Congrats Bowen!
May 18th, 2022. Megan Kober receives Elaine Hope Scholarship. Congrats Megan!
May 16th, 2022. Priyanka Joshi selected to be the 2022 Leading Edge Fellow. Congrats Priyanka!
May 5th, 2022. James Mbata joins our lab as a PhD student. Welcome James!
April 28th, 2022. Mangyu’s and Denis’ perspective about genetically encoded tools to measure and manipulate metabolism is published in Nature Chemical Biology
April 18th, 2022. Pearl Zhou presents her undergraduate research at the MCB Honors Symposium.
April 1st, 2022. Xinyi Yang joins our lab as a masters student. Welcome Xinyi!
April 5th, 2022. Collaborative paper with Light and Portnoy labs about the role of NAD+ recycling in Listeria Monocytogenes pathogenesis is published in eLife.
February 7th, 2022. Xinyi Yang (Metabolism) starts her rotation in our lab. Welcome Xinyi!
October 12th, 2021. Denis presents at the GRC Stochastic Physics in Biology.
September 15th, 2021. Rachelle Stark (Metabolism), Connor Leullen (Biophysics), and James Mbata (MCB) start their rotation in the lab. Welcome!
August 4th, 2021. Our lab moved to new lab space in Morgan Hall. About double the space compared to our previous location.
June 17th, 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 1st, 2021. Lance Li joins the lab as NSF REU summer student. Welcome Lance!
April 28th, 2021. Bowen Yang receives the MCB Outstanding GSI Award. Congrats Bowen!
April 12th, 2021. Bowen Yang joins the lab as a PhD student. Welcome Bowen!
April 5th, 2021. Alex Ekvik receives Thanks to Scandinavia Scholarship and the American-Scandinavian Foundation Award. Congrats Alex!
March 4th, 2021. Denis presents keynote talk at the UC Berkeley Computational and Genomic Biology Retreat.
March 1st, 2021. Sungjin Kim accepted an Assistant Professor position at the Chungnam National University. Congrats Sungjin!
October 1st, 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 13th, 2020. Denis presents at the 80th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association.
June 1st, 2020. Bowen Yang is accepted into the Graduate Remote Instruction Innovation Fellows Program. Congrats Bowen!
May 28th, 2020. New paper from Denis’ postdoc years published in eLife describing the bioenergetic basis of gene expression response to mitochondrial dysfunction
May 7th, 2020. Alex Ekvik, Megan Kober and Matt Kukurugya join the lab as our first PhD students. Welcome Alex, Megan and Matt!
April 9th, 2020. Pearl Zhou receives URAP Summer Stipend Award to pursue summer research in our lab. Congrats Pearl!
February 18th, 2020. MCB graduate students Martina Velichkovska and Ben Kaeser start their rotation in the lab.
February 1st, 2020. Bowen Yang joins the lab as a masters student. Welcome Bowen!
February 1st, 2020. Priyanka Joshi joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome Priyanka!
February 1st, 2020. NST graduate student Megan Kobler starts her rotation in the lab.
December 20th, 2019. Sungjin Kim joins the lab as a project scientist. Welcome Sungjin!
December 17th, 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 25th, 2019. MCB graduate students Rachael McMinimy and Ashley Segura-Roman start their rotation in the lab.
November 18th 2019. Denis presents at the UCSF Diabetes & Obesity Retreat in Santa Cruz, CA
November 18th, 2019. NST graduate students Alex Ekvik, Abbey Diener and Bowen Yang start their rotation in the lab.
September 9th, 2019. MCB graduate student Matthew Kukurugya starts his rotation in the lab.
July 18th, 2019. Denis presents at the GRC Biology of Aging conference in Sunday River, ME.
July 1st, 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 11th, 2019. Undergraduate researcher Pearl Zhou joins the lab.
February 4th, 2019. MCB graduate student Joyner Cruz starts his rotation in the lab.
December 12th, 2018. Denis presents at the American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB/EMBO) Meeting in San Diego.
November 9th, 2018. Denis presents at the Bay Area Aging Meeting (BAAM) at UCSF.
October 2nd, 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 4th, 2018. MCB graduate students Cyrus Ruediger and Justin Williams start their rotation in the lab.
July 23rd, 2018. Titov Lab is fully setup and ready to make discoveries!
June 1st, 2018. Undergraduate researchers Carter Chan, Steven Chen and Isabella Lee-Rubio join the lab.
May 14th, 2018. Mangyu Choe joins the lab as the first postdoc. Welcome Mangyu!
March 7th, 2018. Denis presents a seminar at the NST Department at UC Berkeley.
Jan 30th, 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.
Jan 1st, 2018. Denis starts his faculty appointment as an assistant adjunct professor at the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at UC Berkeley.
Jan 1st, 2018. Titov Lab opens its doors!
