Young Lab
@YoungLabVU
Our lab uses stable isotope tracers, metabolomics measurements, and metabolic flux analysis to discover biological mechanisms that regulate metabolism.
It was an honor and a thrill to host the 15th Cyanobacteria Workshop last week at @VanderbiltU. The workshop was a huge success, with 95 attendees from 21 US states and 8 other countries discussing the planet's most ancient microorganisms. Thanks to the sponsors and presenters!

Thrilled to share our latest @YoungLabVU work in @CellReports! Grateful to my amazing co-authors (@deveenabanerjee) —this flexible metabolic model opens doors to countless applications in physiology & disease. @VanderbiltU @VUEngineering cell.com/cell-reports/f…
Farewell to Dr. Amy Zheng! Wishing her the best of luck in her postdoc at UBC🙂

Bringing the heat with her fantastic work on thermogenesis, Deveena Banerjee from @VanderbiltU 🔥 #EMBOmetabolicDiseases @EMBOevents @EMBO @S_FdezVeledo @RubenNogueiras @Gsabiolab @RogerJDavis1
Congratulations to Dr. Amy Zheng, who defended her dissertation this morning! This is #10 from the Young Lab!


Biofunctionalized gelatin hydrogels support development and maturation of iPSC-derived cortical organoids dlvr.it/TFS5GF
It's been a busy week for the Young Lab! We're now off to #BMES2024 . Excited to share progress from our biomanufacturing projects!

Congrats Danielle! Well deserved!
Danielle Dean receives award for excellence in the field of islet research news.vumc.org/2024/10/16/dan…
Had a great time hanging out with my ChBE 3600 students at the new Torchy's Tacos location in Nashville last night!

The @NIH has renewed a 5-year T32 grant for the Integrated Training in Engineering and Diabetes (ITED) program at Vanderbilt. Led by Jamey Young, @VanderbiltU Professor of Engineering, ITED supports Ph.D. students and postdocs in various fields. More: engineering.vanderbilt.edu/2024/07/17/nih…
Always fun to catch up with lab alumni when in town! Happy to hear about your successes, Dr. Javier!

We're excited to share our recent work showing the effects of CDN1163 on liver metabolism in steatohepatitis! Check it out at jlr.org/article/S0022-…
Join us on Monday as Baltazar Zuniga, a graduate student in the @YoungLabVU, presents his work on "systems biology to enable metabolic engineering of fatty acid production in cyanobacteria!"