Posters

Note: Image quality on some posters has been reduced to provide reasonable file sizes for download.

High Risk High Reward Research Symposium, NIH Common Fund, Bethesda, MD, June 5-7, 2019
- Hibernation in a dish: cell-autonomous response of mammalian cells to low temperatures (PDF)

High Risk High Reward Research Symposium, NIH Common Fund, Bethesda, MD, June 6-8, 2018
- Hibernation in a novel rodent model: toward the genetic and molecular basis of torpor in mammals (PDF)

NASA Ames Space Torpor Workshop, Moffett Field, CA, March 12-13, 2018
- Toward torpor mechanisms: genome and gene expression in the meadow jumping mouse (PDF)

American Physiological Society, Experimental Biology 2017, Chicago, IL, April 27, 2017
- Hibernation: insights from comparative genomics of Zapus species (PDF)

High Risk High Reward Research Symposium, NIH Common Fund, Bethesda, MD, December 5-7, 2016
- Hibernation: insights from comparative genomics of Zapus species (PDF)

American Physiological Society, Experimental Biology 2016, San Diego, CA, April 4, 2016
- The Meadow Jumping Mouse as a Laboratory Model of Hibernation (PDF)

High Risk High Reward Research Symposium, NIH Common Fund Bethesda, MD, December 7-9, 2015
- The Meadow Jumping Mouse: A Novel Hibernation Model (PDF) 

Keystone Symposia: Tumor Metabolism, Whistler, BC, March 17, 2014
-  Pyruvate Kinase M2 Mutations in Human Cancers: Effects on Enzyme Function (PDF)

Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research, Boston, MA, May 28, 2013
- The Role of Pyruvate Kinase Regulation for Tumor Growth (PDF)

Keystone Symposia: Tumor Metabolism, Keystone, CO, February 27, 2013
- PKM2 isoform-specific deletion reveals a differential requirement for pyruvate kinase in tumor cells (PDF)

Keystone Symposia: Cancer and Metabolism, Banff, AB, February 14, 2012
 - Role of PKM2 in Tumor Formation (PDF)

Invited Scientific Talks

Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Brigham Young University, February 12, 2020
Special Seminar, Koch Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 28, 2019
Burrow to Bedside Conference, FaunaBio, San Francisco, CA, September 15, 2018
Biochemistry Department Seminar, UT Southwestern Medical Center, May 18, 2017
15th International Hibernation Symposium: Living in a Seasonal World, August 3, 2016
Friday Research Meeting, MIT Division of Comparative Medicine, November 7, 2014
Seminars in Metabolism, University of Utah School of Medicine, October 17, 2013
Cell Growth Research Symposium of the MIT Physical Sciences-Oncology Center, July 23, 2013
Broad Institute Cancer Program Meeting, April 26, 2013
Koch Institute Annual Fall Retreat, Hyannis, October 15, 2012
Keystone Symposium, Cancer and Metabolism, February 16, 2012

… and Public Outreach

Talk for Lay Audience. “Hibernation: How does it work and can it work in humans?” Dallas Science Slam, Dallas, TX, Aug. 15, 2018
Hands-on Science Demonstration. “States of Matter” ScienceKids Outreach Program, Jennifer Eppler’s 4th Grade Class, Robert S. Hyer Elementary, Highland Park, TX, Dec. 15, 2016

Press

5 Lessons Hibernating Bears Can Teach Us About Health 
Alternative Daily, July 29, 2022

Human powers of hibernation may be dormant in genetic code
Quoted in NBC News Science write-up, October 21, 2018

Creative Minds: What Can Hibernation Tell Us About Human Health?
NIH Director’s Blog, January 28th, 2016

'Go Big' Advises USU Alum and NIH Research Awardee William Israelsen 
Utah State Today, November 19, 2015

New McKnight fellow tirelessly seeks to understand hibernation 
UT Southwestern Medical Center News, September 01, 2015

Undermining leukemia
Havard Gazette write-up on my 2014 Cell paper

Metabolism: Nuclear or cytoplasmic?
Nature Reviews Cancer "Research Highlight" on my 2013 Cell paper

Regulation of PKM2 Activity Enables Metabolic Adaptation in Tumors
Cancer Discovery "Research Watch" on my 2013 Cell paper

Cancer metabolism: When more is less
Nature "News & Views" on my 2013 Nature Chemical Biology paper

Turning on key enzyme blocks tumor formation
MIT News write-up about my 2013 Nature Chemical Biology paper