Lab News
01/2025- Jessica joins the editorial board of The Journal of Biological Chemistry.
01/2025- Congrats to Nicolai Hathiramani for being awarded a fellowship from the American Heart Association!
01/2025- Congrats to Alexandra Jerrett for being awarded a Kirschstein National Research Service Award F31 Predoctoral Fellowship!
01/2025- Welcome to the lab Sofia Raya, a high school student from Worcester Technical High School.
01/2025- Phenomenal IGP talk by graduate student Manisha Kunala!
12/2024- The Spinelli lab was awarded a grant from the UMass BRIDGE office!
12/2024- The Spinelli lab was awarded a MassVentures Acorn Innovation Grant.
10/2024- Jessica presents at the UMass Cancer Biology Program Research Retreat in Worcester.
10/2024- Jessica presents at the University of Michigan Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology.
10/2024- Jessica presents at the Boston University Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.
10/2024- Phenomenal IGP talk by graduate student Alexandra Jerrett!
10/2024- Phenomenal IGP talk by graduate student Nicolai Hathiramani!
09/2024- The Spinelli lab moves to beautiful new space in the New Research Building (NRB).
09/2024- The Spinelli lab was awarded a pilot grant from the UMass Breakthrough T1D foundation.
08/2024- Jessica presents at the FASEB Nutrient Sensing meeting in Southbridge.
08/2024- Welcome to the lab Thang Do, a new research associate in the lab from UMass Lowell!
07/2024- Welcome to the lab Jacob Myers, an undergraduate student from Vanderbilt University hoping to learn the art of metabolomics!
07/2024- Jessica presents at the FASEB Molecular Metabolism meeting in Southbridge.
06/2024- Jessica presents at the American Diabetes Association 84th Annual Session in Orlando, Florida.
06/2024- Welcome to the lab Nils Grotehans, a postdoctoral fellow who previously trained in Dr. Thomas Langer’s lab!
06/2024- The Spinelli lab was awarded an Innovative Science Accelerator grant from Augusta University/NIDDK!
05/2024- Diana Fajardo-Palomino officially joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!
04/2024- Jessica presents at the Metabolic Physiology meeting in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Alexandra Jerrett, Manisha Kunala, and Nicolai Hathiramani also attended this meeting!
03/2024- Jessica presents at the American Society For Biochemistry and Molecular Biology meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
02/2024- Jessica presents at the University of Utah Seminars in Metabolism series.
02/2024- Jessica presents at the Keystone Symposia: Mitochondria Signaling and Disease in Banff, Canada.
02/2024- Congrats to Nicolai, Manisha, and Ally for passing their qualifying exams!!
01/2024- Welcome to the lab Michael Mireku, a high school student from Worcester Technical High School.
10/2023- Manisha and Ally present posters at the UMass Retreat!
09/2023- Congratulations to Jessica and Isaac on the birth of their son Peter!
08/2023- Congratulations to summer high school interns Fairuz Chowdhury and Andrew Izvolsky on completing summer research projects and presenting their work in poster format. Special thanks to Paula Vo for mentoring these young trainees!
07/2023- The Spinelli lab is featured in the UMass Chan Medical School Advancing Together Campaign. See more here: https://www.umassmed.edu/oc/marcomm/22-23/advancing-together/news-container/2023/08/What-sparks-a-medical-breakthrough/
07/2023- The Spinelli lab was awarded a grant from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and American Federation for Aging Research!
06/2023- Jessica presents at the 57th ESCI Annual Scientific Meeting
05/2023 Congrats to Jessica on being selected as a 2023 Searle Scholar!
https://searlescholars.org/
05/2023 Paula Vo presents at Confabs!
04/2023 Congratulations to the Spinelli Lab on being selected as a recipient of a grant through the Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research!
03/2023 Jessica presents at the South Florida Translational Research Symposium
02/23/2023: Jonathan Valeros presents at Confabs!
01/19/2023: Tenzin gives a talk at the Confabs seminar series in the Molecular Medicine department! She was phenomenal!!
01/09/2023: Manisha and Nicolai begin their rotations in the lab! Welcome!
12/19/2022: The Spinelli lab (Jess, Tenzin, Paula, Madison, and Jonathan) visits Worcester Tech High School to discuss the path to a career in scientific research. We also did some fun experiments with the students!
11/17/2022: Jessica presents at The Society for Redox Biology and Medicine conference in Orlando, Florida at Baker Ruskinn's Lunch N' Learn seminar.
11/10/2022: Jessica speaks at the UMass MetNet Nutrient Sensing Symposium!
11/03-11/04 2022: The Spinelli Lab attends the UMass Chan annual research retreat at UMass Amherst! Jessica gave a talk and Tenzin, Jonathan, and Paula presented a poster!
11/01/2022: Madison Jerome joins the lab as a research associate! Welcome!
10/28/2022: Jessica speaks at the World Mitochondria Society Targeting Mitochondria Congress in Berlin, Germany.
10/10/2022: Ally Jerrett begins her rotation in the lab! Welcome!
09/01/2022: The Spinelli lab hosts Dr. Mari-Carmen Fernandez-Aguera for a visit and a seminar. Welcome to the Program in Molecular Medicine!
09/01/2022: Paula Vo joins the Spinelli lab!
Paula joins us as a joint research technician with the Ambros lab. Paula is excited to begin her independent research project on mitochondrial metabolism in disease! Welcome to the Spinelli lab! We are thrilled to have you on the team!
08/22/2022: Jonathan Valeros joins the Spinelli lab!
Jonathan joins us from the Whitehead Institute and is excited to begin his research project on the electron transport chain! Welcome to the Spinelli lab! We are so excited to have you on the team!
07/25/2022: Tenzin Tseyang joins the Spinelli lab!
Tenzin joins us from the Whitehead Institute Metabolite Profiling core and is excited to begin her independent research project on metabolism and mammalian disease! Welcome to the Spinelli lab!
07/01/2022: Jessica becomes a co-organizer of the UMass Metabolism Network (MetNet).
Congratulations! Jessica is now a co-organizer of the UMass MetNet. MetNet is a collection of ~40 labs across the UMass Chan Medical School campus that study metabolism. MetNet organizes a monthly seminar series that includes talks from internal MetNet members and from external leaders in the field of metabolism.
MetNet Website: https://www.umassmed.edu/metnet/
MetNet Twitter: https://twitter.com/UMassMetNet
07/01/2022: The Spinelli Lab is awarded the Worcester Foundation Grant!
Congratulations! The Spinelli lab is awarded the Worcester Foundation Grant to fund the development of a new liquid chromatography mass spectrometry workflow that will facilitate the discovery of novel mammalian metabolites!
05/12/2022: Jessica gives a talk at the 10th Conference of the International Coenzyme Q10 Association in Hamburg.
04/02/2022: Jessica gives a talk at the Mitochondria Interest Group at the ASBMB meeting in Philadelphia.
03/29/2022: Jessica gives a virtual talk at MitoTalks Down Under.