I’m thrilled to announce that I was elected as the new Great Lakes Representative to the Fly Board. I’ll serve a 3-year term starting in March of 2024 and look forward to serving the Drosophila community.
Xiaoshun Li wins Summer Scholar award
Congrats to Shen for being selected as a BU Summer Scholar! He will test how resilient our long-lived flies are during starvation.
Manuscript accepted at Scientific Reports
Congratulations to newly minted Musselman Lab PhD graduate, Dr. Christie Santoro, along with undergraduate researchers Ashley O’Toole, Arsalan Alvi, and Pilar Finsel, for acceptance of their manuscript, entitled “Reducing ether lipids improves Drosophila overnutrition-associated pathophysiology phenotypes via a switch from lipid storage to beta-oxidation.”
New research published
Our article “Loss of Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 leads to cardiac dysfunction and lipotoxicity” was accepted today at the Journal of Experimental Biology. Congratulations to first author Bryon Tuthill and co-authors, Eileen O’Hara and Chris Quaglia!
Another newly minted PhD from the lab
Congratulations to Dr. Bryon Tuthill, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled “Modulation of lipogenesis alters lipid profiles and exacerbates type 2 diabetic comorbidities in Drosophila”!
Two Muss Lab students receive teaching awards
This year, both graduate teaching awards went to our PhD students. Bryon Tuthill received his award for excellence as a Cell Biology lab TA, and Matthew Pereira received his award for excellence as a Biochemistry lecture TA. Well done!
PhD granted
Matt Pereira successfully defended his PhD thesis on June 17, 2020. Matt graduates with two first-author papers and will do postdoctoral research with Dr. Isaac Edery at Rutgers University. Congratulations, Dr. Pereira!
This fall, we welcome our first Fulbright Scholar, Fernanda Almeida de Oliveira, to the lab.
Fernanda is a PhD student from David Majerowicz’s lab at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Fernanda is here to test the Rhodnius prolixus orthologs of nuclear receptor HNF4 using Drosophila.
Welcome to our new undergrads
Three new undergrad researchers joined the Musselman lab this spring: Azva Alvi, Christina Capobianco, and Ashley O’Toole.
Ashley is screening potential regulators of cardiac lipotoxicity. Christina is working on experimental evolution. Azva is studying the effects of stress on flies.
Lipids@Wayne State
It was great meeting with other PIs interested in lipid metabolism at Wayne State University last week. Thanks to RJ Wessells for hosting me!