October 21, 2024 | Congrats to Blake for signing his faculty job offer - the Wilde lab will be starting in January at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center! |
October 4, 2024 | Sara is awarded a poster prize at the 3rd Fusion Metabolism in Health & Disease Conference! |
August 6, 2024 | The lab is awarded a UH2 grant from the National Cancer Institute to fund Sydney's project studying the role of dietary lipids in pancreatic cancer development! |
August 7, 2024 | The Christofk Lab has a TikTok account! |
July 25, 2025 | Heather's Cell Voices piece is featured in Cell's 50th anniversary in 2024- Metabolism Special Issue |
July 1, 2024 | The lab is awarded funding from the V Foundation for Cancer Research to investigate fumarate-deficient hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer! |
July 1, 2024 | Sara Frigui is awarded the BSCRC Predoctoral Fellowship! |
May 8, 2024 | Houfu's poster wins 1st place postdoc poster at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Symposium! |
Dec 8, 2023 | Cesar's paper on fetal development and maternal diabetes is spotlighted by UCLA! |
Dec 8, 2023 | Cesar’s paper on fetal metabolism in diabetic pregnancy is published in Cell! |
Jul 17, 2023 | Cesar is featured in UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center’s inaugural cohort of trainee outreach mentors |
Jul 12, 2023 | Blake's discovery featured in a UCLA Health New & Insights article! |
May 31, 2023 | Blake Wilde's paper showing that FH variant pathogenicity promotes purine salvage pathway dependence in kidney cancer has been published in Cancer Discovery |
Apr 23, 2023 | Congratulations to Andy for his paper in Cell Reports showing that RNA binding protein ZFP36 regulates metabolism through mRNA decay! |
Mar 23, 2023 | The lab welcomes its newest member Sara Frigui to the team!
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Oct 4, 2022 | The lab welcomes its newest member Houfu Leng to the team!
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Oct 3, 2022 | The lab welcomes the newest member of the team, Arissa Young! |
Aug 31, 2022 | Sydney Campbell is awarded the Jonsson Cancer Center Fellowship |
Jul 12, 2021 | The lab is very happy to welcome its newest Postdoctoral fellow Sydney Campbell to the lab! |
July 1, 2021 | Cesar Perez is awarded the Broad Stem Cell Research Center (BSCRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Mar 25, 2021 | Pete Mullen's paper showing how SARS-CoV-2 rewires host cell metabolism and might be susceptible to mTORC1 inhibition is published in Nature Communications |
Mar 4, 2021 | Cesar Perez's review on the challenges to studying stem cell metabolism published in Cell Stem Cell |
Feb 17, 2021 | Abby Krall's and Pete Mullen's paper showing that asparagine couples mitochondrial respiration to ATF4 activity and tumor growth is published in Cell Metabolism |
Dec 3, 2020 | Blakes Wilde's spotlight article is published in Molecular Cell |
Sep 17, 2020 | Along with collaborator Brian Shuch, Heather is awarded a Kidney Cancer Association Advanced Discovery Award to investigate asparagine dependence in kidney cancer |
Jun 26, 2020 | Heather is promoted to full professor! |
Jun 18, 2020 | Andy Cicchetto is awarded a Vascular Biology Training Grant |
Jun 17, 2020 | The lab welcomes its newest member Nedas Matulionis to the team! |
Jun 15, 2020 | Berfin Seyran (co-mentored by Bill Lowry) and Suzi Shapira are awarded Broad Stem Cell Research Center (BSCRC) Postdoctoral Fellowships |
Jun 3, 2020 | Heather contributes commentary about supporting young female scientists during the COVID-19 pandemic to Cell Metabolism |
Apr 28, 2020 | Suzi Shapira's review on metabolic regulation of tissue stem cells is published in Trends in Cell Biology |
Mar 19, 2020 | Pre-print of study examining the role of asparagine as an indicator of mitochondrial respiration is published on bioRxiv |
Oct 17, 2019 | Blake Wilde receives American Cancer Society fellowship |
Sep 4, 2019 | Christofk lab celebrates 10-year anniversary |
Jul 18, 2019 | Review on viral metabolism is published in BMC Biology |
Mar 28, 2019 | Shivani Thaker successfully defends her thesis |
Feb 28, 2019 | Study on metabolic reprogramming of human cells by ZIKV is published in Cell Metabolism |
Sep 6, 2018 | Study on how extracellular matrix remodeling regulates glycolytic flux in human cancer cells is published in Cell |
Apr 5, 2018 | Abby Krall successfully defends her thesis |
Mar 1, 2018 | James Ch'ng receives St. Baldrick's fellowship |
Sep 14, 2017 | Bj Sullivan successfully defends his thesis |
Jun 13, 2017 | Lisa Situ is awarded Dean's prize at 2017 UCLA research poster day |
Dec 5, 2016 | Wen Gu successfully defends his thesis |
Oct 6, 2016 | Manuscript previewed in Cell Stem Cell |
Sep 8, 2016 | Publication in Cell Stem Cell |
Apr 29, 2016 | Publication in Nature Communications |
Feb 23, 2016 | Publication in Cell Reports |
Feb 12, 2016 | Heather receives tenure! |
Dec 2, 2015 | Candice Hong successfully defends her thesis |
Nov 12, 2015 | Publication in Nature Communications |
Apr 1, 2014 | Publication in Cell Metabolism |
Dec 10, 2012 | Publication in Cancer Discovery |
Sep 28, 2011 | Heather Christofk & Utpal Banerjee receive prestigious grants from the National Institute of Health |
Jan 20, 2010 | Heather wins a prestigious grant to study cancer metabolism |