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Jason Tennessen

@TennessenLab

Joined August 2014
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Jason Tennessen @TennessenLab
The IU corpse flower (Wally) is blooming! Take a look via the live web stream and consider supporting our greenhouse:

Excitement is in the air – and soon an unforgettable scent today.iu.edu/iub/live/news/…
today.iu.edu Excitement is in the air — and soon an unforgettable scent Wally, the resident Amorphophallus titanum — also known as the corpse flower — at the Indiana University Bloomington Biology Building Greenhouse, is p...
Jason Tennessen @TennessenLab
Congrats to @RaiMadhulik for her latest work being accepted to PLoS Genetics! Thanks to @dalessandrolab for once again collaborating with us another study!

journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…
journals.plos.org Glycolytic disruption restricts Drosophila melanogaster larval growth via the cytokine Upd3 Author summary Animal development requires precise coordination between growth, metabolism, and nutrition. When animals are raised under ideal conditions, dietary nutrients support optimal growth by...
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Jason Tennessen @TennessenLab
For my fly colleagues interested in oncometabolites or links between metabolism and chromatin modifications, we generated two Crispr alleles in D2hgdh. Description can be found here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
www.biorxiv.org New alleles of D-2-hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase enable studies of oncometabolite function in... D-2-hydroxyglutarate (D-2HG) is a potent oncometabolite capable of disrupting chromatin architecture, altering metabolism, and promoting cellular dedifferentiation. As a result, ectopic D-2HG...