The DeNicola lab at the Florida State Fair

Pritin wins by a point!

The DeNicola lab attends the 2024 CMSW

Yumi presents her poster at the 2024 Moffitt Symposium

Happy 8th Birthday DeNicola lab!

Minigolf

Amanda's goodbye dinner

January 2024

  • Gina presents the lab's research at UCLA.
  • Feroza Choudhury joins the DeNicola lab as a Research Scientist. Welcome Feroza!

 

February 2024 

  • The DeNicola lab attends the Florida State Fair. 
  • The DeNicola lab attends the Keystone Tumor Metabolism meeting. Gina was an organizer and presenter, Amanda delivered an oral presentation and Yumi attended virtually.
  • Lejin Sun officially joins the DeNicola lab as a PhD student. Welcome back Lejin!
  • Sang Jun presents his work at Molecular Oncology Research in Progress.

 

March 2024

  • Gina presents the lab's research at the Miami Tumor Biology Symposium

  • Gina organizes the 2nd annual Central Florida Triangle Metabolism Meeting with Tim Osborne at Johns Hopkins All Children’s and Bret Goodpaster at Advent Health Translational Research Institute and Clay Mathews at University of Florida. Gina presented a talk and Yumi, Sang Jun and Amanda presented posters. 
  • Gina organizes the Metals and Redox session at ASBMB and presents on the labs work on cysteine and ferroptosis. 
  • Yumi presents her research at Metabolism Club.
  • Jemma Parsons joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Jemma!
  • Amanda is accepted into multiple cancer biology PhD programs and decides to attend Northwestern in the Fall. Congratulations Amanda!

 

April 2024 

  • Pritin's march madness bracket wins the lab competition!
  • Gina presents in the AACR Education session "Targeted Mechanisms of Nutrient Acquisition and Utilization" and the Major Symposium "Metabolic Regulation of the Cancer Cell State" at the AACR Annual Meeting.
  • Gina presents the lab's research at the University of New Mexico.
  • Gina co-organized the 2024 Cancer Metabolism Showcase and Workshops. Yumi delivered an oral presentation and Amanda and Sang Jun presented posters. 

 

May 2024 

  • Nate (now Moffitt Faculty) published his paper about the role of mitochondrial glutathione catabolism in ferroptosis in Nature Communications. 
  • Gina presents the lab's research at the British Columbia Cancer Research Institute.
  • Collaborative work between former postdoc Paloma and the Coloff lab about the effect of physiological culture media on drug sensitivity is published in JCI Insight. 
  • The DeNicola lab attends the Moffitt Scientific Symposium. Yumi and Sang Jun present posters.
  • Former DeNicola lab volunteer Sae Bom Lee successful defends her PhD. Congratulations Sae Bom!
  • Gina presents the lab's research at the University of Florida.
  • Happy 8th Birthday to the DeNicola lab!.

 

June 2024 

  • Gina presents the lab's research at Penn State College of Medicine.

 

July 2024 

  • Gina presents the "Gillies Lecture" at the 14th ISCaM Meeting in Brussels, Belgium.
  • Gina presents the lab's research at the FASEB Molecular Metabolism: Cells and Systems Meeting.
  • Collaborative work between former postdocs Nate and Laura with the Chang lab about novel tool to detect labile iron is published in PNAS.
  • Collaborative work between Yumi and former postdocs Nate and Yun Pyo with the Harris lab about the regulation of liver lipid metabolism by glutathione is published in Nature Communications.
  • Feroza has a baby boy! Congrats Feroza!

 

August 2024 

  • The DeNicola lab braves the Florida heat to go minigolfing. 
  • Collaborative work between Yumi and the Coloff lab characterizing ASCT2 as the serine transporter in cancer cells is published in Cell Reports.
  • Lejin presents her research at P01 meeting.
  • Gina, Yumi and Lejin attend the CSHL Models and Mechanisms meeting. Yumi presents a poster.  
  • Amanda preprints her work on the requirement for GSR and TXNRD1 for lung tumor initiation and progression in bioRxiv. 
  • Amanda leaves for her PhD program at Northwestern. We will miss her!
  • Yumi presents her work at Molecular Oncology Research-in-progress.

 

September 2024 

  • Meredith Long joins the DeNicola lab. Welcome Meredith!
  • Marwa Taya joins the DeNicola lab. Welcome Marwa! 
  • Gina presents the lab's work at the Sorrento Copper meeting.

 

October 2024 

  • Gina gives a Plenary lecture at the 2024 MANA conference.
  • Collaborative work with the Harris lab characterizing glutathione as an amino acid source for cancer cells is preprinted in bioRxiv. 

 

November 2024 

  • Basma Yasseen joins the lab. Welcome Basma!
  • Lejin passes her PhD qualifying exam! Congrats Lejin!
  • Collaborative work between Yumi and the Karreth lab characterizing the regulation and requirement for PHGDH in melanoma is published in Cancer Research.
  • Feroza presents her research at Metabolism Club.
  • Collaborative work with the Chang lab on copper imaging is published in JACS.

 

December 2024