Brian Kleiboeker
@bkleiboeker.bsky.social
430 followers 520 following 24 posts
3rd year MD/PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh studying oxidized lipids and cell metabolism. All views expressed are solely my own. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5LNj62EAAAAJ&hl=en
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
bkleiboeker.bsky.social
It’s hard to focus lately and feels wrong to talk about science when the whole system is under threat, but I’ve been reading Hans Krebs’ autobiography and it’s excellent. I highly recommend for all scientists, especially biochemists
bkleiboeker.bsky.social
Looks like Emory is in the first listed association? Hopefully the suit is filed on behalf of all schools in the associations too bc Pitt is in the same boat
Reposted by Brian Kleiboeker
olzmannlab.bsky.social
Excited to share our new preprint! Exceptional work by @mikelangelipid.bsky.social identifies the first #LipidDroplet lipid quality control pathway! LD-localized FSP1 safeguards neutral lipids from peroxidation and prevents #ferroptosis. 🤩https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631537v1
FSP1-mediated lipid droplet quality control prevents neutral lipid peroxidation and ferroptosis
Lipid droplets (LDs) are organelles that store and supply lipids based on cellular needs. While mechanisms preventing oxidative damage to membrane phospholipids are established, the vulnerability of L...
www.biorxiv.org
bkleiboeker.bsky.social
Note that the "Fas" in FAF2 is the apoptosis Fas, not the fatty acid synthase Fas. Confusing, given the context!
bkleiboeker.bsky.social
CRISPR screening in epithelial cells suggests that peroxisome-derived ether lipids alter cellular viability in response to lipotoxic stress. Fas-associated factor family member 2 (FAF2) appears to be a key regulator of this process. This is an interesting preprint!

www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
www.biorxiv.org
bkleiboeker.bsky.social
I learned so much from this episode when I listened a few months ago!
Reposted by Brian Kleiboeker
hellmichgroup.bsky.social
Ok, trying to bring my community back together... I created a starter pack for lipids and membrane protein aficionados!

Feel free to share, add and distribute, so we can come together again! 😍

go.bsky.app/AEeXh86
Reposted by Brian Kleiboeker
tonnomartinez.bsky.social
I have initiated this #StarterPack with #RedoxBio researchers.

Feel free to suggest other users, or yourself, to be included!

go.bsky.app/UoVRtXp
bkleiboeker.bsky.social
Congratulations and welcome to Pitt!
bkleiboeker.bsky.social
Waiting for the AI people to come say that this take just means you don’t know how to engineer prompts correctly 😂
Reposted by Brian Kleiboeker
wmeira.bsky.social
#StartPack for the #Ferroptosis researchers community.

A small but growing list—let’s expand it together!

Please, feel free to reach out if you'd like to be added or removed. 🧪🔬

go.bsky.app/35UvtTi
bkleiboeker.bsky.social
tWiptophan is hilarious
Reposted by Brian Kleiboeker
drjonlim.bsky.social
🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
bkleiboeker.bsky.social
Will be interesting to see if it is as versatile as ggplot2! I’ve yet to find something I can’t do in ggplot, though sometimes it does take…a lot of lines of code
bkleiboeker.bsky.social
I think that there is a lot more to learn at this interesting nexus of phospholipid and triglyceride metabolism in adipose tissue!
bkleiboeker.bsky.social
... a #lipidomic analysis of P. gingivalis and report several previously unidentified lipid families. Read the full, open-access story in JLR!

#massspec #massspectrometry #teammassspec
bkleiboeker.bsky.social
Porphyromonas gingivalis is a gram-negative anaerobic bacterium which is commonly found in the oral cavity and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic periodontitis, but is also associated with other conditions such as bacterial vaginosis and Alzheimer’s disease. Here, we perform ...
Lipidomic analysis of Porphyromonas gingivalis reveals novel glycerol bisphosphoceramide, phosphatid...
Porphyromonas gingivalis, like other members of the phylum Bacteroidetes (synonym Bacteroidota), synthesizes several classes of dihydroceramides and p…
www.sciencedirect.com