Aug 2025. Wei lab opens!

Sep 2025. Welcome, Ruida, Zhenyu, Yunqing, and Kate, to officially join our lab!

Sep 2025. Wei is invited to give a talk at the Annual Diabetes Day Symposium in Madison. A fun talk about harnessing the power of small metabolites to treat metabolic disorders!

Sep 2025. Wei gives a talk at the annual IPiB retreat. A fun talk about deorphanizing biochemical pathways of nutrient metabolism!

Oct 2025. Wei is invited to give a talk at the Endocrinology Department Seminar at the University of Illinois, Chicago. It’s a fun visit!

Nov 2025. Wei is invited to give a talk at the Nutritional Sciences Seminar in Madison. A fun talk about taurine!

Dec 2025. Welcome, Rowan and Boyuan, to officially join our lab!

Jan 2026. Welcome, Merrisa, to officially join our lab!

Feb 2026. Our lab has been awarded a one-year pilot grant from the Washington University Diabetes Research Center. This funding will support our research to define the enzymatic origin and metabolic role of N-acetyltaurine. Way to go, team!

Mar 2026. We said goodbye to Merissa as she embarked on her next journey as a Staff Scientist in the School of Medicine. Thank you, Merissa, for sharing your expertise in protein biochemistry and for all your contributions to the lab. We wish you the very best in this exciting new chapter of your career!

Apr 2026. Welcome, Mariah, to officially join our lab!

May 2026. Our lab has been awarded a two-year research grant from the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC), and Wei has been selected as a Research Education Component (REC) Scholar. This support will help advance our research on the roles of secreted factors in Alzheimer’s disease. Way to do, team!

May 2026. Our lab’s first manuscript is published on JBC! Here, we identified a shared enzymatic mechanism linking N-acetylated β-amino acids to energy balance regulation. Congratulations to Ruida from the CMB Program on leading this work. Well done!

May 2026. Congratulations to Mariah on receiving the UW Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR) TL1 Postdoctoral Fellowship. We are very proud of you!

May 2026. Congratulations to Rowan from the IPiB Program on receiving the Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) T32 Predoctoral Fellowship. We are very proud of you!

May 2026. Wei is invited to give a talk at the 2026 Chicago Chemical Biology and Therapeutics Symposium. All about taurine!

Jun 2026. Wei gives a talk at the Endocrine Grand Rounds Seminar Series at the Department of Medicine, UW-Madison.

Jun 2026. Wei receives the Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR). We will use this money to study inter-organ communications during aging! Keep up the good work!

Jul 2026. Congratulations to Mariah on receiving the Metabolism and Nutrition Training Program (MANTP) T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is on fire!