Jeeyun Chung
@JeeyunC
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Assistant Professor of Harvard MCB @MCB_Harvard. Interested in cellular fat metabolism, Postdoc in @FandWLab and PhD in @PDClab
Cambridge, MA
Joined May 2018
We wrote a Perspective on the Cover story below. Check it out here https://t.co/cSRGs1N4LH Adipocytes have developed a unique regulatory mechanism to produce giant, unilocular lipid droplets.
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A protein complex promotes the expansion of lipid droplets during the formation of mature adipocytes
Fat storage in the body relies on specialized structures called lipid droplets. In a new Science study, researchers identified the microprotein adipogenin as a regulator of adipocyte lipid droplet size, revealing a key mechanism in lipid homeostasis. Learn more in this week's
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New paper in @ScienceMagazine identifying adipogenin as a critical seipin regulator in LD biogenesis. So glad our lab could help a little in this monumental study. Congrats to all authors! https://t.co/xSmNywS9PW
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The microprotein adipogenin (Adig) is predominantly expressed in adipose tissues. Here, we found that Adig interacts with seipin to form a stable, rigid complex. We present the structure of the...
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Fat storage in the body relies on specialized structures called lipid droplets. In a new Science study, researchers identified the microprotein adipogenin as a regulator of adipocyte lipid droplet size, revealing a key mechanism in lipid homeostasis. Learn more in this week's
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How does a #LipidDroplet move? Read our new article on #Motility #MembraneContactSites #Mitochondria in @CellReports! Big thanks to @RolandSoldner Florian Fröhlich lab @ruferbus Daniel Kümmel lab Thomas Becker lab!
cell.com
Zhao et al. identify the molecular machinery for lipid droplet motility, consisting of the type V myosin Myo2, the Myo2 adaptor protein Ldm1, and its surface receptor Ldo16. They uncover a molecular...
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Curious how proteins find their way to #LipidDroplets? Our bipartite review traces their journey from ER insertion to LD partitioning: 👉 Navigating lipid droplet proteins - part I: ER targeting routes of LD-destined membrane proteins https://t.co/kPAlaFtYPg
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Lipid droplets (LDs) are cytosolic lipid storage organelles that derive from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Their biogenesis and function are essential for maintaining cellular lipid homeostasis and...
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Catherine Dulac Named Xander University Professor https://t.co/HEMnAF23eh
@DulacLab @RachelleGaudet @HHMINEWS @Harvard @harvardbrainsci @VMurthyLab @NBellono @RivasElenaRivas @mlgredler @JeeyunC @MicrobiomeTcell
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Assistant Professor faculty position at @UCBerkeley focusing on metabolic disease. 🤩 https://t.co/vV96QoZCwZ
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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For #FTD researchers: Please consider attending the inaugural #Gordon Research Conference on Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Rare Dementias (this year, #Vascular Dementia): https://t.co/UTAIpmzqqs Hope to see you February 15-20, 2026, Ventura, California! Please RT.
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Two new papers from our lab 😀! Seipin beyond LDs: balances ER sphingolipids & glycerolipids, key for protein secretion (incl. Cav1). https://t.co/4AuwtmIfYq→LD traffic: lateral steric repulsion shapes how monotopic ER proteins partition onto LDs. https://t.co/ViYLT0xiXA...
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Wonderful to see our paper on the #organelle signatures of #neurons and #astrocytes out in final form - congratulations @ShanRhoads and team! 🎉 https://t.co/BPxKlbU6Ou
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A pleasure to write this review on lipid droplets for @JCellBiol together with Will Prinz & amazing artist Emma Reynolds! Unlike a typical review, we discuss 5 pervasive mysteries about LDs, and what remains to be discovered about this amazing organelle. https://t.co/FfqQ6pw8eA
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New review: Mike Henne (@HenneLab), Emma Reynolds, and William Prinz @UTSWMedCenter discuss recent discoveries and enduring mysteries in the lipid droplet field. https://t.co/A1Qx9ZPzCB
#Biochemistry #CellMetabolism #LipidDroplets
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A fantastic first publication as faculty from @raj_mito at @MitoCareCenter elucidating the role of peri-mitochondrial actin filaments regulating mitophagy through modulation of ER-Mito contacts… https://t.co/13wAw1UJif
embopress.org
imageimageAcute and chronic mitochondrial damage induces assembly of peri-mitochondrial actin filaments that reduces ER-Mitochondrial contacts (ERMC) and slow down Parkin recruitment. Removal of...
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Faculty opening in @CornellChem at the Assistant Professor level in the area of chemical biology, broadly defined! https://t.co/6X85aEPXv6
#chemjobs
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Neural Circuit and Molecular Mechanism Underlying Social Hierarchy Identified @DulacLab @Kapoor_Vic @VMurthyLab @mztalay @HHMINEWS @mlgredler @HarvardGSAS @Harvard @RivasElenaRivas @NBellono @JeeyunC @MicrobiomeTcell @EngertLab @RachelleGaudet
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AHH!! My primary thesis work is finally out! Tweetorial to come...
New online! ACAD10 and ACAD11 enable mammalian 4-hydroxy acid lipid catabolism https://t.co/JxDn3pT7lW
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Online today in @Nature - our latest study led by superstar postdoc @GillesRademaker detailing the role of PSCK9 in driving sterol dependent metastatic organ choice in pancreatic cancer https://t.co/czMQcNSr7o full text available here 👉 https://t.co/JVFBDWxcTo and thread 👇
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Nature - PCSK9 regulates low density lipoprotein-cholesterol import and determines organ preference of metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, with PCSK9-low cells metastasizing to the liver...
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