News & Outreach
Jan 1, 2024
Congratulations to Lianna for receiving the 2024 American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship!
December 11, 2023
Congratulations to Karen Garelli for passing her qualifying exam!!!
April 18, 2023
Congratulations to Gemma Zhao for being awarded the K99/R00 from NIAMS!!!
March 27, 2023
Congratulations to Lianna Wat for being nominated for the Lindau Nobel Laurate meeting in Physiology/Medicine!
Feb 1, 2023
We are grateful to SPARK for funding our work!
Jan 16, 2023
Keystone Symposia on Bioenergetics in Health and Diseases/Adipose Tissue: Energizing good fat was such a blast!
Jan 9, 2023
Visiting Kazak lab and others at McGill, Canada!
Dec 23, 2022
Congratulations to Laetitia for receiving the 2023 American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship!
Dec 20, 2022
Congratulations to Lianna for receiving the 2023 Dean’s Fellowship from the Stanford School of Medicine!
Dec 15, 2022
Laetitia’s paper is now out in iScience. Here we describe the transcriptional changes in livers during the development of fatty liver disease. This work was a collaborative effort between our lab and Hannele Aki-Jarvinen, Greg Charville, and Russ Altman’s lab.
Dec 1, 2022
Ewa’s paper describing the role of GPR151 in hepatic gluconeogenesis is now out in Nature Communications!
Nov 29, 2022
Weill Cornell-Stanford Cardiovascular Symposium was a blast. We shared our latest work, Laetitia won the Best Poster Prize, and we got a chance to catch up with friends!
Oct 15, 2022
Congratulations to Gemma for delivering a great talk at the Annual Stanford Pathology Retreat, and to Laetitia for winning the Best Poster Prize.
Nov 2, 2022
Laetitia, Gemma and Owen met their scientific grandfather Bruce Spiegelman at the UCSF Retreat!
Sept 29, 2022
Congratulations to Laetitia, Niels, Gemma and Hobson for publishing a review discussing the recent advances in adipose-derived secreted factors in Current Opinion in Pharmacology!
Sept 28, 2022
Congratulations to Gemma and Niels for publishing in eLife!
Sept 8, 2022
Organizing the 3rd Bay Area Metabolism Meeting was a lot of fun! Great job Gemma giving a short talk and Lianna with moderating the career panel discussion! Thanks to Gemma and Ewa for chairing the speaker sessions. Hope to see everyone again next year!
Aug 9, 2022
Seeing old and new friends at Keystone Symposia in Whistler, Canada!
June 20, 2022
Welcome CVI summer students Isaiah and Danielle!
June 17, 2022
Lab trip to Berkeley for the joint UCSF Liver Center and UC Berkeley NST Mini-Symposium!
June 10, 2022
Gemma is presenting her late-breaking abstract at ENDO2022!
April 14, 2022
Gemma is sharing her work in a short research film published at JRNLclub!
April 12, 2022
Congratulations to Gemma for winning the best poster award at the SDRC 6th Frontiers in Diabetes Research Symposium!
April 7, 2022
Congratulations to Lianna for receiving the 2022 Larry Sandler award for best thesis work at University of British Columbia!
March 4, 2022
Hobsons farewell!
Dec 17, 2021
Congratulations to Laetitia for receiving the Stanford School of Medicine Dean’s Fellowship award for 2022!
Dec 14, 2021
Congratulations to Gemma for receiving the 2021 American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral fellowship award!
Aug 3, 2021
Big congrats to Owen, Gemma & Laetitia and all the co-authors on the recent publication in Cell Metabolism!!!
June 2021
We were happy to finally resume our joint annual Svensson/ Long lab BBQ!
June 1, 2021
Big congrats to Nickeisha Cuthbert from Claflin University for being awarded the American Heart Association (AHA) award for Summer Research (SURE) in the CVI Summer Research Program! We are so happy to work with you again!
April 26, 2021
Niels joins us as a postdoctoral fellow on the Carlsberg Foundation fellowship. Welcome Niels!
February 28, 2021
Congrats to Gemma for winning the best poster award at the 2021 Stanford Pathology Basic Research Retreat!
Dec 15, 2020
Yunshin’s and Gemma’s methods paper on how to isolate lipid-filled hepatocytes is out! https://star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/328
Oct 1, 2020
We are grateful for support from Merck for our studies investigating lipid pathways using single-cell RNA sequencing.
Sept 16, 2020
We are organizing the 2nd Bay Area Metabolism Meeting together with SDRC! Amazing talks from PIs, postdocs and students from Stanford, UC Berkeley and UCSF. Follow us on Twitter for updates on future meetings @SvenssonLab @StanfordDRC
Join us at the next Bay Area Metabolism Meeting on September 2024!
https://www.bayareametabolismmeeting.com/