Tim Kenny
timckenny.bsky.social
Tim Kenny
@timckenny.bsky.social
NIDDK K99 Postdoctoral Fellow at The Rockefeller University | Cellular metabolism and nutrient transport in physiology and disease
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November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right?

Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>
October 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Thrilled to announce that I will be joining the @mountsinaicvri.bsky.social at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as an Assistant Professor in January! My laboratory will focus on nutrient transport and cellular metabolism in physiology and disease.
July 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I’m so proud and beyond thrilled to share the final product of my thesis work from @sinaibrain.bsky.social , now published in @nature.com! Here, we explored the complex functional impact of rare neurexin-1 deletions across human glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Phenotypic complexities of rare heterozygous neurexin-1 deletions - Nature
How NRXN1 variants affect multiple neuropsychiatric disorders is explored.
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April 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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REVIEW | Kıvanç Birsoy, Monther Abu-Remaileh and colleagues @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social, @stanford.edu

The authors provide a broad overview of choline metabolism, its cellular handling, and how it impacts physiology and pathology.

https://bit.ly/3WPCPM2
Cellular and organismal function of choline metabolism - Nature Metabolism
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February 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM