Robert Farese & Tobias Walther | The phase of fat: Mechanisms and physiology of lipid storage

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Robert V. Farese Jr. and Tobias C. Walther won the 2022 ASBMB–Merck Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to research in biochemistry and molecular biology. The pair’s joint lab studies lipid homeostasis and storage and neurodegeneration. Farese and Walther are professors at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and both are associate members of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. They presented their award lecture, "The phase of fat: Mechanisms and physiology of lipid storage" on Sunday, April 3, at the 2022 ASBMB Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with Experimental Biology, in Philadelphia. Learn more about their work: https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/121521/farese-and-walther-find-depth-in-a-droplet. Farese and Walther are also organizing the 2023 Deuel Conference on Lipids, which will be March 7–10, 2023 in Dana Point, Calif. The ASBMB Deuel conference is a must-attend event for leading lipids investigators — and for scientists who’ve just begun to explore the role of lipids in their research programs. Learn more and save the date: https://www.asbmb.org/meetings-events/deuel.