Lauren Au: Child Nutrition Researcher
NST alum Lauren Au (B.S. '07) is profiled in Food & Nutrition Magazine's Nutrition Heroes series for her work in preventing childhood obesity through improving federal nutrition initiatives.
G6PC2 Modulates Fasting Blood Glucose In Male Mice in Response to Stress
NST associate professor Wally Wang published a research article in Endocrinology on a gene expression that influences fasting blood glucose (FBG), and may have evolved to modulate FBG in response to stress.
Imputing phenotypes for genome-wide association studies
NST adjunct professor Chris Vulpe published a research article in the American Journal of Human Genetics on how genome-wide association studies can leverage related phenotypes to detect variants correlated with phenotypes of clinical interest.
LSD1 Interacts with Zfp516 to Promote UCP1 Transcription and Brown Fat Program
NST researchers (Professors Hei Sook Sul and Andreas Stahl, former researcher Sarah Paul, grad students Kevin Tharp and Olga Gulyaeva, researchers Jon Dempersmier and Audrey Sambeat) published a research article in Cell Reports on brown fat tissue
AMPK phosphorylates desnutrin/ATGL and HSL to regulate lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation within adipose tissue
NST researchers (Professor Hei Sook Sul, post-docs Jose Viscarra, Yuhui Wang, Sun-Joong Kim and Marcia Abbott, alum Tianji Tang (Ph.D.
Food for Thought: Making a dent in the crisis of student hunger at UC Berkeley
NST 198 course "Cooking Healthy on a Budget," to be renamed "Personal Food Security and Wellness," is highlighted in this California magazine article on the student hunger crisis at UC Berkeley.
Triple-negative breast cancer target is found
“We were looking for targets that drive cancer metabolism in triple-negative breast cancer, and we found one that was very specific to this type of cancer,” said Daniel K.
