NST Position Announcement
The Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology seeks an associate or full professor (nine-month tenure-track) with an expected start of July 1, 2017.
Protein sialylation regulates a gene expression signature that promotes breast cancer cell pathogenicity
NST researchers (associate professor Dan Nomura, post-doc Rebecca Kohnz, grad student Lindsay Roberts, MCB undergrad researchers Peter Yan and Lara Bideyan) published a research letter in ACS Chemical Biology on the role of protein sialylation in
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.