Our biochemistry graduate student Faith Bowman presented her work at the 3rd Metabolism in Health and Disease conference in St. Julians, Malta. The work presented was entitled “Characterizing FOXN3’s Role in Directing Glucose and Energy Substrate Metabolism”.

Our lab recently published a new review entitled “Ceramide microdomains: the major influencers of the sphingolipid media platform”. Congratulations to our PhD student in Nutrition and Integrative Physiology Mariah Stout!

Check the publication here:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39082976/

Our Nutrition and Integrative Physiology graduate student Marrie Norris presented her work at the Japanese Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders at Tokyo, Japan. The talk was entitled “Ceramide: The Unmasked Driver of Heart Failure in Long-chain Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders”. Congratulations for attending as the winner of best presentation in the 2024 April conference!

Our Nutrition and Integrative Physiology graduate student Rebekah Nicholson presented her work at the ‘Cell Symposia: Multifaceted Mitochondria’ in Sitges, Spain. The talk was entitled “Proteome Integral Solubility Alteration (PISA) Identifies Novel Ceramide-Protein Interactions in the Inner Mitochondrial Membrane Mediating Proximal Tubule Mitochondrial Form and Function During Acute Kidney Injury”.

Our PhD student in Nutrition and Integrative Physiology Dave Dumaguit presented his work at the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, in Denver, CO. The talk was entitled “Characterization of a novel ASAH2 variant associated with diabetes and Kidney Failure in Tongan and Samoan patients.

Our Nutrition and Integrative Physiology graduate student Rebekah Nicholson presented her work at the ‘American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week’ in San Diego, CA. The talk was entitled “Characteriziation of a Novel ASAH2 Variant Associated with Diabetes and Kidney Failure in Tongan and Samoan Patients”. Congratulations for attending the conference as a Kidney STARS scholar Bekah!

Our Nutrition and Integrative Physiology graduate student Rebekah Nicholson presented her work at the ‘Lipodystrophy Symposium’ in Ann Arbor, MI. The talk was entitled “Ceramides: Links to lipodystrophy and cardiometabolic disease”.

Our graduate student, Marie Norris successfully defended her PhD thesis and is now Dr. Marie Norris!

Congrats on your accomplishment Marie! We wish you a bright future! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Our graduate student Rebekah Nicholson successfully defended her PhD thesis and is now Dr. Rebekah Nicholson!

Congrats on your accomplishment Bekah! We will all miss you, and wish you a bright future! 🎉🎉🎉