NST Dietetics Instructors Recognized for Excellence
The American Society for Nutrition awarded Lecturer Dr.
The Secreted Enzyme PM20D1 Regulates Lipidated Amino Acid Uncouplers of Mitochondria
NST professor Daniel Nomura, in collaboration with scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, published a research article in Cell on a calorie burning molecular pathway.
Bypassing the pentose phosphate pathway: Towards modular utilization of xylose
NST professor Dan Nomura and PMB graduate student Kulika Chomvong published a research article in PLOS One on a novel pathway that optimizes chemical conversion of pentose sugars.
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