Spiegelman Lab
@LabSpiegelman
We study metabolic pathways regulating energy homeostasis, mitochondrial biogenesis, and muscle/adipose biology @DanaFarber @HarvardCellBio
Ergothioneine is an atypical amino acid to which many health benefits in humans have been ascribed. Here we determine the direct protein target of ergo binding and how it functions in mitochondria and exercise. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kdIa5WXUlaX…
A new discovery from the bowels of the DFCI CB business office. I'm gonna say Jae Bum Kim and Peter Sellers from The Pink Panther movie?

It's not true that Jared Rutter can only do metabolite signaling! @CapeCod Bay

Matt Gilbert and Krys Seremak cartooning the boss's favorite saying at lab meetings 🤣

Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard. hrvd.me/IntStudents25t
Another great Spiegelman Lab Retreat goes in the record books. Everybody gives a talk, but it can't be what you work on! Stretch the mind.

What a great occasion! Our Visiting Student Alex Braunsperger and Paulina Braunsperger-Wasserfurth tie the knot, Bavarian style. Heartly Congrats!

Yay Shingo! • Shingo Kajimura, PhD is the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award of the ADA, which recognizes research in diabetes that demonstrates particular independence of thought and originality. @KajimuraLab
Does the lack of correlation between PGC1a RNA and protein give you a headache? Us too. Phillip Dumesic has uncovered a key factor controlling PGC1a mRNA translation authors.elsevier.com/a/1kdIZ5WXUlaX…
Wanna see what true love looks like in @labspiegelman? Here is Amanda Smythers with our new Mass Spectrometer, timsTOF!

Figured BlueSky(s) were better for fishing 🤷♀️Find us at @spiegelmanlab.bsky.social!
Ed Chouchani promotred to full Professor! Yay Ed! Well-deserved! cellbio.hms.harvard.edu/news/recent-fa…
Congratulations to our lab's newest NIH K-awardees Sumeet Khetarpal and Mu A! 🥳


Last salt water day of the season. Mwah! 😭 @KajimuraLab


And finally, everyones worst nightmare, two bosses listening to your lab meeting presentation 😰

in case your Friday needed a closer look at a snowman doing some important cell culture, your wish is granted...

Halloween brings out the ghouls and goblins, even at the lab!!! Nobody is safe!
